Harbour Pointe Golf Club — Local services in Mukilteo

I played Harbour Pointe on Tuesday 9/16 with a 1:03pm tee time. From the Whites, course rating 69.1, Slope 125. Par 5s were 485 yards, so not very long. My buddy came in from the airport was at risk of being late so I got there early and the pro shop team was immediately ready to accommodate us if traffic made him late. As it was we teed off on time. I like OKI courses and HP is okay, but I think not as inspiring or manicured as Gold Mountain or Hawks Prairie. 6,055 yards from white tees didn’t seem that long. I'm not a long ball hitter and my 200-220 yard drives often left me with comfortable 4-5 irons to the greens. A long ball hitter would be chipping pretty short from the white tees. Greens were in good shape overall, a little small with a few elevation changes here and there but nothing brutal, and average speed (or maybe a little slow) compared to the nicer public courses. There is plenty of water (swamp hazards) on the first 10 holes, but they are placed fairly. The back nine gets hilly, and the cart setbacks are a good 50 yards in front of most greens. As a result, it was the most walking I've ever done when I rented a cart. The course has few high risk/high reward opportunities, so playing it straight down the middle is what we did. The 11th (?) hole requires a 4-5 iron layup from the tee followed by a totally blind shot over a bluff to a green over 100 feet below in elevation. There's a pretty view of Puget Sound from this hole. Overall HP is a decent track, except for two problems. For a weekday midday round, it was PAINFULLY slow! As a twosome of solid bogey golfers we waited on every hole from the third hole on. A very nice course ranger (too nice in our opinion) would drive by now and then to explain that a foursome 3-4 groups up ahead was having trouble and slowing everyone down, but no one was every allowed to play through them. It got worse through the round, and our round took nearly 5 hours. The second I thought the $57 greens fee plus $15 per seat for a cart ($72 per man on a weekday), was too expensive. I'm happy to pay more anywhere the course is nicely kept and pace of play is within expectations. Overall, HP gets a B for layout and condition; the pro shop staff gets an A; on-course management/pace of play gets a solid D-; and it gets a...

I want to like this course, I really do. I play here pretty often as it's the closest course to my house and I consider it my "home" course but the pace of play here sometimes is just atrocious. The course conditions tend to be OK except on some holes where they have drainage issues. The greens are usually fine and, sometimes, even great. The pace of play though is a bit of a hit-or-miss. The last round I played there, I was playing in a twosome and we were waiting 20-30min at every tee box before we could tee off. Basically, 5 groups would be stuck at one hole for almost every hole and even though we called the pro shop to see if they could do anything, they were too understaffed to have a marshall come out to facilitate pace of play. My buddy and I eventually ended up giving up the round at the 13th hole and drove past about 7 groups before we discovered that at the very front there was a group of 4 doing lessons at EACH hole. These dudes were sitting in bunkers for 10+ minutes trying different shots and hitting NUMEROUS tee shots (5+ every hole between 2 people receiving lessons). It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen in all my time playing here. And when we drove by them onto the last hole, it was COMPLETELY EMPTY. There wasn't even a trace of ANY groups in front of them. PLEASE for the love of all that is good, ENFORCE YOUR OWN RULES HP GOLF CLUB. I want to keep playing here and do genuinely enjoy the course when I can finish a round in around 4 hours. I'm not asking for fast play, just one that doesn't take me over 4 hours to barely play 12 holes and forces me to give up. Props to the pro shop though for comping the 9-holes we didn't get to finish, it was much appreciated. Side note: I feel that the golf carts here are due for an upgrade. The handling is horrible and the steering isn't even aligned properly on some...

Typical, under-funded, poorly operated Oki Management course. Don’t buy a bucket of balls here, worst range balls ever (imagine what a 5 year old golf ball, that’s been whacked 10,000 times, that’s the quality of their range balls. Range balls from Srixon are anywhere between $0.06- $0.15 each depending on volume. As for the range itself, quality is mediocre at best, drainage issues everywhere. On a hot day, the course green speeds were only at like an 8. They looked immaculate, but I was having to hammer a 7ft putt to the hole. The design of each green, shape and undulated topography of the greens are GREAT, just slow for how great they look. Certainly weren’t rolled, let alone double rolled. This is on par with what you come to expect with Oki management courses (Indian Summer as the only outlier of the bunch). Some Mickey Mouse-like holes on the front nine, very narrow from the tips, especially off the tee where you need to thread a needle to avoid trees (a great challenge👍🏼). On a soggy day, your ball will plug in the middle of the fairway. Lots of divots all over the course, looks like a war zone. Lots of potential, but this course need a major Capital injection and...