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Alta Lake Golf Resort
Categories: Event Planning & Services Hotels Hotels & Travel Hotels Active Life Golf Hotels, Golf [Edit]
140 Alta Lake RdPateros, WA 98846
(509) 923-2033
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
2 reviews for Alta Lake Golf Resort
2 reviews in English
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Review from Ian F.
Woodinville, WA
6/29/2011 4 photos
This will certainly be the most unique review that I have ever written for this website. My review of Alta Lake Golf Course in Central Washington (up past Lake Chelan by Pateros, WA) begins with an epic journey of 6 golfers in an RV and the possibility of 100+ holes of golf. The Alta Lake Golf Resort features a small motel sitting about 100 feet from the first tee and offers a weekend golf dealer that frankly cannot be beat. $55 for greens fees for the entire weekend, as much as you can play. Imagine this, 36 holes on Friday, 63 holes on Saturday, and 18 on Sunday before heading back to Seattle and the total green fees for all the golf was $55. The only caveat to the price is that you have to stay at the motel on the property to receive the rate. Regardless, that is hands down the best bang for your buck golf price I have ever heard of.
Given the price was so inexpensive to play this unreal amount of golf I was expecting the worse when it came to course quality and conditions. A Central Washington golf course in the middle of nowhere that I have never heard of...I wasn't too optimistic that I would be playing much of a track. Well, low and behold this ends up being a pretty damn good golf course that featured what I have no problem in saying are the most difficult greens I have ever played on. More on that in a moment for sure. Before I review the actual course, I just want to make a point to tell you what you are getting by going out to this place. Between 6 guys, we played 117 holes of golf, with carts for all 3 days, and 2 nights in the resort motel for $165. Unreal.
As for the golf course, my worry that this might be a rat track was quickly put to rest when I encounter the 543 yard, uphill, par 5, 1st hole. This bad boy plays to well over its stated yardage and not a single person in our 6-some made this green in two during the entire weekend. That speaks volumes considering the amount of rounds we put through this place. Even when I pumped driver down the middle, then hammered a 3 wood at it, I still found myself playing full wedge over the damn cliff to get to the wicked two tiered green. Yeah, as if the distance isn't tough enough, your approach shot is greeted with one of the most sloped two-tiered greens I have ever seen. I played the hole 6 times and never made par. 2 bogeys and 4 doubles. Epic.
This tiered and sloped green thing became the theme of the weekend and frankly I have never seen anything like it in my entire life. To a certain extent the undulation of the greens was reminiscent of Old Macdonald at Bandon Dunes, just covering a much smaller area. Nearly every green had some epically baffling undulation and drop off to it that just left you scratching your head. On one of my runs through the front 9 nine, I hit the ball as good as I possibly could and carded 5, 3 putt bogey's for a 42. Honestly, I didn't miss a drive, an iron approach, or a chip and shot 42. I walked off that 9 and felt like I shot par. To top that off, the pin placements were on the spine of the slope or tucked into the corner guarded by two slopes. I actually took a lot of ribbing from the group for standing next to the hole and dropping a ball to see how far it rolled out. Seriously, one of those pin placements wasn't legal. I'm serious guys! It was the only golf course I have ever played where you could putt at the hole, have the ball go completely around the hole and wind up back at your feet.
Of the most memorable greens was the Par 3, 12th hole which we were playing from 160 yards out. It was pretty sharply uphill and had a pin tucked at the very top back right portion of the green, with maybe 5 feet of green work with beyond the hole, then a hill that dropped off into hell as far as I am concerned. I should sketch this green out for you but that would be a train wreck. Basically, pin is top right, 30 foot drop behind it, severe back to front slope starting about 8 feet in front of the hole, then a side slope to the left that funneled balls back down to the front. In 7 attempts on the back I never made the green, but managed to squeak a couple pars out.
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Review from Jeff H.
8/20/2011
Really nice golf course here and worth the drive. If you can, play here and Desert Canyon and make it a weekend. Prices at Alta are very reasonable and well worth the cash. Try to get out when the weather isn't in the triple digits, and enjoy yourself on the links!!
