Tregaron Golf Course — Attraction in Bellevue

I rarely give a 1 star to anything, but I have never been treated with such disrespect at a golf course before.

I and 4 of my friends played Tregaron for the first time. Although we arrived on time for our tee time they over booked the course and we were pushed back 30 minutes. This did not bother us much because we had all day to play. After it took 3 hours to play the front (due to the overbooking) we made the turn. As there were 5 of us we allowed a group of 2 to play ahead on the 10th tee box. We waited for them to play their second shot and we teed off. As we approached our tee shots, a man in a cart drove up and literally yelled at us to break into a group of 2 and 3. We tried to explain that we were keeping with the twosome ahead of us and that breaking in a group of 2 and 3 would only delay the people behind us more, but he just again yelled at us that he better not see us in a group of 5 again.

We, being intelligent golfers, saw that breaking into a group of 2 and 3 would push back all other groups by 15 minutes. So we continued on keeping up with the twosome ahead of us. After we teed off on 11 another man drove up and started to again yell at us that we were just told to break into a group of 2 and 3. I tried to explain logic to this man too, but again he would not listen. Instead he followed us through hole 14 (at which point we were a full 2 holes ahead of the group behind us) and then said we were okay to continue playing as a group of 5.

This could have been avoided if they would have just talked with us rather than yell at us. This was my first and last time I will be golfing...

I love the physical aspects of this course, has great hole designs, a lot of unique dog legs around water, elevated tee boxes, and is usually kept up very nice outside of a 1-2 tee boxes that are baked by the sun/over used which is expected at any course. Outside of that the course itself is always usually physically great. I’ve personally play this course now probably 7-8 times. However the issue I have is the pace of play at this course unfortunately seems to be getting worse each time I play there. Tregaron use to be my favorite course but the last 2-3 times I have played here me and my friends unfortunately end up being 20+mins over pace after just 9 holes with it getting worse after each hole. Almost every single hole we ended up waiting over 5-10mins to tee off with having to wait on 2+ groups on each hole constantly at times. Holes 2-8 is where the back log happens each time. Front 9 took over 2.5 hours to play and the full 18 took over 5 hours. While I love the physical course aspects of Tregaron, the clubhouse, and location, they really need to have a Marshall or someone to enforce the pace of play consistently. So while I love the physical course itself that’s why I gave 4 stars. Love the course too much to gash it but I hope they do something about the pace of play on the front 9 because it can really ruin the experience of such a beautiful course and overall...

Decided to play this because of the advertised active duty military discount on wednesdays, $25 for 18 and a cart. The guy working the counter told me it was $42 when I checked in and said I was active duty, so I figured I probably read the ad wrong, oh well. I double checked after the round, and the ad on the site said exactly what I thought, and went to ask the guy at the pro shop again. He said it’s only an online deal (even though that part isn’t advertised anywhere on the site). I pointed this out and he begrudgingly refunded me the difference, but not before condescendingly telling me next time to ask about it before the round.. not sure how the timing of it makes any difference (except for it looked like his boss was in the back office this time). There is also no driving range here, which I’ve never experienced before, and the tee boxes were in pretty poor shape on many of the holes, some didn’t have an even surface anywhere on the box. The course is pretty, and also challenging, but overall I’m pretty dissatisfied and won’t be back. Not being able to warm up before a round is a deal breaker for me, and the condescending kid behind the counter was the icing on the cake. I won’t we be back, and with the numerous choices for golf courses in this area, I’d suggest looking...