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Saturday was my first round at Port Ludlow Golf. All and all it was a great round, a great experience, and I will most certainly play there again.
I took advantage of the Golf Now "Hot Deal" and played this course at an absolute steal.
The practice facility was above and beyond. I arrived an hour before my tee time and fully utilized the driving range, putting green, and BOTH practice chipping areas. They skimp you on the balls though, but oh well.
Course was fantastic. No two holes touch. Almost every hole is guarded by forest on both sides. Challenging buy fun layout with bunker guarded greens, random trees that affect tee shots and fairway shots, and a crazy downhill par 3 that requires precision to "split the uprights" (trees)

CON: I will say however, there was one issue with the round, and that was that there were tiny particles (most likely buds from all the trees) covering the greens. This affected several putts, to the point that my playing partners and I started using our hats and towels to clear the paths to putt to the hole.

The grounds crew could have easily went out in the early morning with blowers and blown this off the greens.

Great round, I will be back.
Shot an 80. 42-38.

Played this course on Sunday morning. It was my first time playing this course and also my first round of the year. All in all, great course. Great layout, maintained well, greens were rolling true (a little less break than you think) and the traps were in nice shape and had a proper amount of sand and no rocks (at least the traps I was in). Staff was friendly, cart girl was cute (bonus) and lunch after the round was delicious.

The only negative thing I can say is about the range. It was 80 and sunny and had been sunny all week leading up to my round, and yet the grass part of the range was closed. I don't know about the rest of you, but hitting off the mats directly before a round does not help me whatsoever, in fact, in tends to weaken my swing. I don't see why they still had the grass part of the range closed.

Besides that, absolute fantastic course and definitely will be back. I am a 9 handicap and shot 80 there (bogeyed 18 =[ ) for my first round of the year. So, not exceptionally challenging.