With woodland dominating the front nine and wetlands coming into play on the back nine, the golf course at The Plateau Club is renowned as a tough track. Its design came about after Pete Dye’s unlikely collaboration with Masatsugu Saito in the late 1990s.
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With woodland dominating the front nine and wetlands coming into play on the back nine, the golf course at The Plateau Club is renowned as a tough track. Its design came about after Pete Dye’s unlikely collaboration with Masatsugu Saito in the late 1990s.
The Plateau
Co-designed by Perry Dye and Masatsugu Saito, the 18-hole layout at The Plateau Club is a renowned tough track that was carved from the densely forested landscape of the Sammamish Plateau in the late 1990s.
In The American Private Golf Club Guide, author Daniel Wexler has this to say about the course: “The front nine is almost entirely wooded and doesn’t realty hit stride until the attractive 167-yard 6th (all carry over wetlands) and the 476-yard 7th (with the approach played across diagonal bunkers).
Another strong run includes the lake-flanked 471- yard 12th, the 184-yard railroad tie-buttressed 13th, and the 364-yard 14th, a Cape-like dogleg left around a pond. The Plateau Club represents an appealing – if highly demanding – Seattle area option.”
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