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Salish Cliffs Golf Club
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Salish Cliffs is the new Gene Bates/Fred Couples design at the Little Creek Resort, the Squaxin Island Tribe's casino, an hour west of SeaTac in Shelton. Beautiful setting for the golf course, through the Kamilche Valley with 600 feet of elevation change in total. It's a Northwest style parkland type of course with its share of uphill/downhill sloping fairways, extreme amount of bunkering, and is one tough course, definitely not for the higher handicapper or beginner. Beautiful new clubhouse with wrap-around porch overlooking the 8th and 18th greens. Bent grass from tee to green, and rye grasses in the rough, both grown in very well for such a new layout. The black tees are 7,300+ yards, and have a rating/slope of 74.6/137, while the 5,313-yard forward tees come in with a 70.7 rating and 125 slope.
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Posted by: befowler
Dec 15th, 2011
The course is routed on a wooded hillside with more very good holes than just plain old good ones. The danger with courses that play through so many trees is that the holes, while pretty, all tend to end up looking the same. Not so here. There's enough variety to maintain interest and demand attentiveness all the way home. Salish Cliffs is a memorable round, provided you avoid the fescue rough!
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