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Don and Pete Golf Oregon
 
 
March 29, 2024
Courses Played

192

29 to go!

Don's Top 5 Courses To Date

1. Eugene Country Club

2. Black Butte/Big Meadow

3. Pronghorn (Nicklaus)

4. Aspen Lakes

5. Tokatee

Pete's Top 5 Courses To Date

1. Chehalem Glenn

2. Salishan

3. Diamond Woods

4. Centennial

5. Black Butte/Big Meadow

A great April day at Sandelie East
Updated On: Apr 103, 2014
Ron Hebert, Don, Pete and Mitch Nosack at Sandelie East on April 13.

A 70-degree day on April 13 — Don's birthday, incidentally — found us out at Sandelie East Golf Course as we marked Course No

A 70-degree day on April 13 — Don's birthday, incidentally — found us out at Sandelie East Golf Course as we marked Course No. 155 off our list. Mid-April is as good of a time to play Sandelie as any, we suppose. We were joined by friends Mitch Nosack and Ron Hebert — this was Ron's first "official" Don & Pete adventure.

 

Sandelie East has so much potential. The layout is really quite nice. At about 5900 yards it's not a long course. It's also not particularly challenging, though it does have a much more imaginative design than sister course Sandelie West and has several holes with a lot of character. But ... and it's a BIG but ... the course simply isn't well maintained.

 

It's mid-April, you'd expect the fairways to be lush. At Sandelie, they are sparse. There's simply not enough grass. There are lots of single blades of grass and mud. You rarely get a good lie because the ball is never sitting up because it's never laying in all grass. That gets frustrating.

 

Then there are the greens. The front nine greens were, with the exception of two, diseased and just splotchy. Getting a smooth roll was virtually impossible. On the back nine, the greens had been sanded and plugged, but it appeared that they hadn't been watered once since the sanding/plugging — and you can tell it had been awhile, it wasn't like they were plugged yesterday. Again, putts bounced across the green, they didn't roll.

 

The price is appropriate for the level of care, and people were friendly. But really, we'd be happy to pay more if they'd take better care of the course. We'll post our full review here soon.

 
 
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