Eastmoreland Golf Course

This is a great course. Greens and fairways are in good shape! Great pro shop, concessions and staff! Front 9 is tight, back 9 is a shot makers vibe 11 dog leg right 17 island green! Worth the money!🏌🏾‍♀️🏌🏾‍♀️

I spotted this course from Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden two days before I played it. Assumed it was private. It's that nice. It's a municipal course, which in Portland means the city decided in 1918 that world-class golf should be accessible to everyone, not just club members. That decision has aged beautifully. Designed by Chandler Egan, a national amateur champion and golf course architect, Eastmoreland opened as Portland's first public course and the second oldest in Oregon, trailing only Gearhart Golf Links on the coast, which Scottish immigrants carved from the coastal dunes between 1888-1892. Eastmoreland hosted the US Amateur Public Links in 1933 and 1990, ranked among the top 25 public courses in the country by Golf Digest, and hole 7 made Golf Magazine's list of the 50 best holes open to the public. I teed off about 3:10 paired with three strangers, Patrick, Dave, and MJ who became good company. Patrick and Dave are childhood friends who grew up in the neighborhood and have been playing this course their whole lives, they only played 9. MJ, a local, played all 18 with me and we ended a little after 7:30. When people who know every blade of grass keep coming back for decades, that's the best endorsement a course can offer. I arrived about 40 minutes early to hit the range, which has a computer tracking system that maps your shots and can even simulate a full round. Very cool. I only hit a small bucket before going searching for the chipping and putting area, which turns out is located right by the first tee, accessed via a tunnel under the road. Since I didn't find the short game area in time, it showed, badly. The course is scenic and green, green, and more green. Bordered by Crystal Springs Lake and the Rhododendron Garden, it's a nature walk with consequences. The drive between holes 4 and 5 delivers one of the better reveals in public golf: an elevated tee box looking down on the green below. For regulars it's a familiar design highlight. For a first timer it stops you in your tracks. Holes 5, 6, 7, and 13 run alongside upscale residential streets, gorgeous homes framing the fairways. Holes 14 and 15 along the tracks are a different story. There's an unsheltered encampment there and the trash is unfortunate. I felt safe, but it's honest context for what Portland is navigating right now. The contrast between those two worlds, separated by a fairway, is something. The greens were in excellent condition and running a little fast. I three-putted most of them. My chipping was equally humbling, both for the same reason: no short game warmup. And yet I hit nearly every drive straight down the middle, which almost never happens. The course is forgiving enough that errant shots were findable. Ended up with a 105, though 110 is probably the honest number with a couple shortcuts taken. The wildlife is abundant. Canada geese with goslings, nutria, and rabbits abound. I did not encounter a nutrabbit or a rabutia, but I remain hopeful. They had a cart girl serving beverages, which I have not seen on an Oregon course before. In Vegas they're everywhere. It was Day 834 in solid, secular for me, so unnecessary, but a nice touch for those who indulge. The clubhouse is basic and clearly public. The bar and grill was a disappointment at the turn: no healthy options, just a protein bar loaded with sugar. Bring your own banana (for scale at least), nuts, or un-sugar laden protein bar. If I lived closer I'd be targeting 90 here inside a season! Maybe one day, there were home for sale and the neighborhood is fantastic!

Please put a little more effort in maintaining this course. I realize it's fall but leafs everywhere making it difficult to keep up with pace of play and find balls. The sand bunkers were like concrete and haven't been raked in eons. Downed tree that looks like it's been there quite awhile. Lay out is fantastic though! Love the holes. I can't wait to go back during Spring and summer. Driving range has the launch monitors that give you all your stats; and also let's you play famous courses virtually. Instant win.

I recently assisted my best friend's family with her Celebration of Life at EGC. Lindsey, Caleb, Karen, Lily and the rest of the crew did such an amazing job that it made a very sad day a little less sad. The room looked beautiful, the food was delicious, the bar pumped out our "signature" cocktails for hours, and all this in spite of a last minute jump in attendance. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for a job incredibly well done!!!

Great course! The driving range is fantastic as well, with ball tracking technology on each mat, really helpful for dialing the sticks in pre-round. Beware, this course gets real swampy in the winter but come spring and summer, it’s great.