{"id":6792,"date":"2019-05-23T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T23:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oregoncourses.com\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2019-10-06T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T18:48:25","slug":"fiddlers-green-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oregoncourses.com\/fiddlers-green-golf-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddler’s Green Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"
Along Highway 99 just north of Eugene is the massive Fiddler’s Green retail store. Behind the store is this public 18-hole par-3 Fiddler’s Green Golf Course. The combination is the Fiddler’s Green Golf Center, which contains the “largest on-course golf pro shop in America.” The flat and generally open course is both pastoral (there are lots of birds and several holes go next to a sheep ranch) and urban (you hear the highway and on occasion a plane will fly over on its approach to the Eugene Airport).\u00a0 Hole lengths are between 70 and 202 yards, and several have water or trees in play. The primary defense is the greens, which are very small (and a little bumpy), but hold well. The fairways are a bit shaggy, but generally uniform, and there is differentiation between fairway and rough. Staff is very friendly, and most folks are out on the course to have fun. Reservations not taken (but if you are traveling there call ahead to make sure there is no event temporarily closing the course).\u00a0 Short, flat, and compact, it is a very easy walk.<\/p>\n
Opened in 1964 as the “Country Place.” The Whalen family bought the course in 1976, changed the name, and greatly expanded the retail space.<\/p>\n
Ben and Virginia Simpson wanted to build an easy-to-play course for the whole family. The Whalens have kept the course as part of a greater golf enterprise.<\/p>\n
Because of the variety of lengths of the holes, you need to take all clubs needed for yardage between 0 to 202 yards. It is not a typical wedge-and-putter 3-par course.<\/p>\n