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Tight course and very crowded. Popular because it's priced right and walkable. Very enjoyable golf.
Decent course, relatively cheap especially if you purchase the birdie or eagle discount cards.
Wonderful experience! Great weekend, I met some amazing golfers! I will be back next year for this special event.
Went for the Seattle Children's fundraiser auction hosted by the Kent Guild. A wonderful catered luncheon, lovely course.
Clean municipal course with a challenging, but very playable design. Flat and mostly open, with pretty wide fairways. Bunkers and water are well placed and come into play off multiple tees. Some trees between holes but not a crazy ammount. Many of the greens here are well guarded by bunkers, or being tucked back a bit near trees. The greens were nice, although a few had medium to large bald areas on them when I played here. Putting and chipping areas near the Pro Shop. There is a great driving range with it's own building across the street, and it has a much wider selection of gear than the pro shop at the course. With friendly staff in the Pro Shop and around the course, and a fun course in good condition overall, I would play here again!
I'm writing this review I wasn't at the Riverbend Golf course I was right next to it at the PT laundromat which is always clean they're reasonable there's always somebody's staff there and they all have all new washers which are nice and not breaking down and having to send somebody over to get your Quarters on stuff but Riverbend is always clean and people are polite so but this is a review for PT laundry
Was a mud pit. Standing water everywhere. No one was doing anything to help out the course but still charging full price to play as usual. Not the 1st time it's been this way. I don't think I've ever seen a cre taker working in course & have played there many times. Even in the summer. No one. Leaves everywhere. Just a wet horrible time
Lovely facility by a lake, on rolling hills of manicured lawn. Lots of parking, big enough to hold a larger event yet still feel intimate. Clean, lots of windows, views of the gardens and landscaping. Kitchen and bar area, tables for dining, some outdoors. Just a lovely place to host an event.
Married across the street at the Old Fishing Hole on Trager Road. It was magical.
Start to finish...
Booked Tee time online for an easy transaction. 👍 ~$26 military/twilight price.
Pro shop personnel were friendly and patient (couldn't remember if I paid when I booked online but this was easily and quickly resolved with a 😊. Thank you for that 😁.)
Putting green is right near the first tee box and earshot of the "next up" and "on deck" announcements. Also putts real close to what the greens felt like. Playing in late September. Beautiful day! The greens did seem to speed up a little bit when the sun started going down, which might have been my imagination. I'm still kind of new to this golf thing.
All the tee boxes had fresh grass to hit from and were in good shape.
The fairways felt tight in places and were definitely lined or guarded with trees which made missing the fairways a really fun challenge. Quite easy if you're good at squibbing the ball lol. You can get back in the fairway by getting under low branches or between trees but the course plays much easier staying in the fairway so I tried that for the back nine and dropped five strokes off of what I did on the front line lol.
Most people walked which is good. I chose to drive just because I'm still working on getting my stamina up for a full 18. I did choose a cart which cost something like $18. There's a cart path throughout the entire course. There are definitely parts of it where the path is covering tree roots so it gets a little bumpy, watch those open beverages 😉. Pretty sure driving the cart on the fairway was permissible. I just chose to use 90⁰ cart rules bc I wasn't positive and the fairways were in really good shape. Even lies for very playable approach shots.
Greens were easy to read. Nothing too tricky. Very puttable. Soft this time of year, end of September, which they may be all year. I don't know. This is my first time here. Approach shots were sticking very well.
A bunker or two had standing water in it, but that's expected from all the rain we got recently. The rest of the course drained very well.
The other golfers, I almost forgot about this but it should be worth noting, were very nice. I was solo and played with a married couple and another solo and it felt safe, like not judgmental or pretentious.
You could also hear the roar of a couple guys playing a few holes away that were absolutely having a blast. Nothing like hearing someone belt out an exclamation and then you hear their ball doinking through the trees. Totally made us giggle while we were on one of the greens chasing the setting sun. But also heard others say "nice shot" for one of my hits.
Have fun people! Learn to laugh more, especially at yourself when you have those moments available.
3:09 Tee time got us in on the 18th green with limited light around 7:20pm. We were getting pushed a little around 14 but everybody wanted to finish out their rounds and it was getting dark fast. If you're not a fan of being pushed or feeling pushed and you want to finish 18 before dark, I suggest not doing Twilight hours on a Saturday. If you don't mind not finishing a full 18, go for it. It was totally worth it.
**Spoiler Alert**
Okay and now the real surprise... the wildlife. See attached pics. Golf is such a beautiful sport in many aspects. Even the balance between being physically demanding but also trying to stay relaxed and out of your head is a delightful part of the experience and journey. But playing on a naturally beautiful course with wildlife present, is such an awe-inspiring treat. Golf courses are typically very bad for the environment (from destruction of habitat to chemical runoff etc etc) and catch a lot of shade from environmentalists, rightfully so in most cases, but check out the photos from Riverbend Golf Complex. You will see that this course seems to be in harmony with the environment. Obviously I didn't slow down play to do any water sample testing 🤓😂 but the overall feel was that you are one with Nature on this course.
Oh and Mt Ranier 🌋!!! What a surprise 🫢!!
Until next time-Peace out.
~Brookstorm
Booked Tee time online for an easy transaction. 👍 ~$26 military/twilight price.
Pro shop personnel were friendly and patient (couldn't remember if I paid when I booked online but this was easily and quickly resolved with a 😊. Thank you for that 😁.)
Putting green is right near the first tee box and earshot of the "next up" and "on deck" announcements. Also putts real close to what the greens felt like. Playing in late September. Beautiful day! The greens did seem to speed up a little bit when the sun started going down, which might have been my imagination. I'm still kind of new to this golf thing.
All the tee boxes had fresh grass to hit from and were in good shape.
The fairways felt tight in places and were definitely lined or guarded with trees which made missing the fairways a really fun challenge. Quite easy if you're good at squibbing the ball lol. You can get back in the fairway by getting under low branches or between trees but the course plays much easier staying in the fairway so I tried that for the back nine and dropped five strokes off of what I did on the front line lol.
Most people walked which is good. I chose to drive just because I'm still working on getting my stamina up for a full 18. I did choose a cart which cost something like $18. There's a cart path throughout the entire course. There are definitely parts of it where the path is covering tree roots so it gets a little bumpy, watch those open beverages 😉. Pretty sure driving the cart on the fairway was permissible. I just chose to use 90⁰ cart rules bc I wasn't positive and the fairways were in really good shape. Even lies for very playable approach shots.
Greens were easy to read. Nothing too tricky. Very puttable. Soft this time of year, end of September, which they may be all year. I don't know. This is my first time here. Approach shots were sticking very well.
A bunker or two had standing water in it, but that's expected from all the rain we got recently. The rest of the course drained very well.
The other golfers, I almost forgot about this but it should be worth noting, were very nice. I was solo and played with a married couple and another solo and it felt safe, like not judgmental or pretentious.
You could also hear the roar of a couple guys playing a few holes away that were absolutely having a blast. Nothing like hearing someone belt out an exclamation and then you hear their ball doinking through the trees. Totally made us giggle while we were on one of the greens chasing the setting sun. But also heard others say "nice shot" for one of my hits.
Have fun people! Learn to laugh more, especially at yourself when you have those moments available.
3:09 Tee time got us in on the 18th green with limited light around 7:20pm. We were getting pushed a little around 14 but everybody wanted to finish out their rounds and it was getting dark fast. If you're not a fan of being pushed or feeling pushed and you want to finish 18 before dark, I suggest not doing Twilight hours on a Saturday. If you don't mind not finishing a full 18, go for it. It was totally worth it.
**Spoiler Alert**
Okay and now the real surprise... the wildlife. See attached pics. Golf is such a beautiful sport in many aspects. Even the balance between being physically demanding but also trying to stay relaxed and out of your head is a delightful part of the experience and journey. But playing on a naturally beautiful course with wildlife present, is such an awe-inspiring treat. Golf courses are typically very bad for the environment (from destruction of habitat to chemical runoff etc etc) and catch a lot of shade from environmentalists, rightfully so in most cases, but check out the photos from Riverbend Golf Complex. You will see that this course seems to be in harmony with the environment. Obviously I didn't slow down play to do any water sample testing 🤓😂 but the overall feel was that you are one with Nature on this course.
Oh and Mt Ranier 🌋!!! What a surprise 🫢!!
Until next time-Peace out.
~Brookstorm
Pretty nice for a city owned course. My son's high school team practices and plays matches here.
i worked here about a year ago n a half ago, at first i loved working there but through out time i feel like the management team got a little bit to comfortable. I noticed with us hispanic or colored people we got treated very different. i was a minor at the time, wasn’t able to work more than ‘4’ hours on week days which was understandable. in spring 2022, we were short staff so new employees started coming in. i got A LOT of hours took from me, i would talk to jasen & tell him i was available whenever & to please give me more hours because i needed it. it never happened, i felt like i was unheard there forsure. In the kitchen there was no air conditioning, in the state of washington that is an OSHA violation. most of the cooks would have to constantly step outside because of how hot it gets in there. chef would get upset when us employees would order food to eat and karen always seem to have a problem with me, she was rude at times to me. honestly it was just a whole lot working there.
Beautiful! The staff was awesome!
Absolutely impeccable and well maintained.The cream of the crop for western Washington golf.
Wonderful Father's Day Dinner. Staff was amazingly attentive and the food was delicious. I think I got my fill of crab! Thanks Mike, Steve and Scott.💞💓💖😘
Omelette making station with chef, corned beef cutter, waffles, scrambled eggs, breakfast meats, salads galore, juice station..and a full dessert table...WOW!