THE GOLF CLUB AT NEWCASTLE
Location: Newcastle
Distance between courses: Oh, about 100 feet
Total trip time (including golf): 9 hours
Of course, with gas prices rising, the best way to play 36 holes in a day is to do it at one 36-hole complex — and no one in the Puget Sound region does 36 holes like The Golf Club at Newcastle.
It’s not just the views of Seattle, Bellevue, the Cascade Mountains, the Olympic Mountains, Puget Sound, Lake Washington and Mount Rainier – which remain breathtaking no matter how many times you’ve been there before.
Nor is it the area’s nicest clubhouse, with a classic bar-and-grill for burgers between rounds, a high-end restaurant for a business lunch or a quiet date night with your spouse, and an old-English style drawing room, complete with bar, fireplace, billiards, card tables and board games.
Nor the expansive practice area, or the customer service that treats everyone like they’re Bill Gates. (And sometimes, they are.)
It’s all of it put together — throw all those factors in with two of the best courses in the state, and you have the Seattle’s area’s No. 1 all-in-one golf experience — and a fantastic way to spend nine hours on a beautiful Puget Sound summer day. Leave time after the round to grab a drink on the patio at the Woolly Toad and soak in the view for a reminder that nobody — not Palm Springs, Myrtle Beach or anyone — has it as good as we do in the summertime.