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TUALATIN
Country Club
PAR 4 422 YARDS
Tualatin, OR
503.692.1122
www.tualatincountryclub.com
Tualatin Country Club is the fourth-oldest club in Oregon. The course was originally
designed in 1912 by H. Chandler Egan, a US Amateur champion and winner of a
silver medal in the only Olympics to have golf. He added to his acclaim with his
renovation of Pebble Beach in 1929—with Alister MacKenzie—and his design of
more than 20 golf courses, mainly in the Northwest. When John Fought, the 1977 US
Amateur champion and former club member, returned to renovate Tualatin Country
Club in 1991, the course certainly had a past worth preserving.
While country clubs are often thought of as elitist, Tualatin Country Club was
established in response to the exclusionary nature of others. In the early 1900s,
Jewish people were not allowed at other Oregon private clubs, so they built Tualatin
on more than 100 acres of farmland on the outskirts of Portland, near a local train
line. Its membership has included many prominent Portland businessmen and
professionals, including Julius Meier of Meier & Frank department stores, who later
became Oregon's governor. It wasn't until the 1960s that non-Jewish members joined
the club. Tualatin retains a special relationship with two other Northwest Jewish-
founded clubs: Glendale Country Club in Bellevue, Washington, and Richmond
Country Club in British Columbia.
Tualatin's golf course, with small greens and diabolical bunkering, holds its own in high
level competitions, including hosting eight Oregon State Amateur Championships
and numerous USGA and PNW PGA events. The finishing hole is a difficult, long par
4 that requires the use of a driver off the tee, aimed right of center to avoid a left-side
fairway bunker. From there, a mid-iron shot to the green must carry a pond on the
right edge of the green, while also avoiding bunkers behind and to the left. The large
multitiered green offers many difficult pin locations and is a great challenge as you
complete your round.
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Photographs courtesy of Tualatin Country Club
