Rian

Played here on a sunny Friday afternoon. We started out with a couple beers at the bar and I found the bartender to be very friendly and personable. From there we checked-in and paid for the round. $81 for twilight with a cart. We were then told carts had to be in by 9pm. The guy at the front desk probably repeated this 6-8 times, almost in a condescending tone. Meaning with a 5pm tee time we would probably be part way into the back nine and have to stop and bring the carts back to meet some arbitrary deadline. Just for fun I kept track of when it got dark that day, it was 10pm. So we lost over an hour of play because of some dumb policy. Not a fan at all. But anyway, we set out on the round. I personally think West Seattle is a pretty terrible course but since that's a matter of preference I can't really dock points based on that. I will say the greens are so rock hard that you can plan on everything rolling 20-60 feet, even lob wedges. The fairways are also so sloped & undulated that good tee shots will often dribble off the fairway. Getting 100 yards of roll off of a drive is cool, except when everything funnels left or right into the trees. Sure you could tee off with irons but this course is pretty long so that would be a problem also. The last thing I want to mention is something not exclusive to West Seattle, but it's become such a ubiquitous indication of business incompetence I have to mention it...there was no beverage cart. Allegedly there was but we never saw one. It was a mid-80's day in Seattle with a packed house of people blowing off steam after a work week. Almost 2.5 hours to play the front nine and none of the dozens of groups on the course could buy a $6 beer or two. Literally hundreds if not thousands of dollars in revenue being missed. I will never understand this. This will be my last trip to West Seattle golf course, over the years I have played here probably 10 times but this will be the last. I just cannot justify supporting a place that systematically takes the fun out of what I think should be a relaxing, enjoyable past time.