# Tualatin Country Club: A Course Profile

Source: https://thecourserankings.com/blog/tualatin-country-club-profile/

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A deep sand bunker guarding a green. Photo: Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tualatin Country Club exists because of an exclusion. Formed in 1912, it is the fourth oldest golf club in Oregon, and it began as a historically Jewish country club at a time when Jewish golfers were shut out of other Portland area clubs. That origin is not a footnote to the golf. It is the reason there is golf here at all, and the club's longevity, more than a century in Washington County, is the members' answer to the clubs that would not have them.

H. Chandler Egan is the credited name. The record, as Oregon sources tell it, is more communal than a single architect stamp. The first nine opened in 1913, laid out by the members with Egan on the design committee. A remodel plus a second nine opened in the summer of 1919, and 1919 Oregonian articles suggest George Junor contributed significantly to the design. We like the messier version. A club founded by golfers who had to build their own place literally laid out its own first nine. The architecture credit matters less than that fact.

## A championship habit

Tualatin has hosted eight Oregon Amateur Championships, with Oregon Amateurs running at the club from 1922 through 2025, plus several Oregon Opens and U.S. Open qualifiers. Eight state amateurs across a full century is not a club trading on one famous week. It is a course the state association kept trusting, generation after generation, to identify its best amateur player. That trust is a credential no ranking panel can hand out.

The modern course plays par 72 at 6,649 yards from the back tees, with the Tualatin River in play on three holes, two lakes and 46 bunkers. Those are modest numbers by the standards of new championship venues, and they suit the place. At 6,649 yards the examination is about position and nerve around the river holes rather than raw length. A state amateur field does not need 7,400 yards to be sorted out. It needs greens that reject the careless approach and a few holes where water turns a routine par into a decision. Three river holes and two lakes provide exactly that.

The major remodel came in 1992, by Bob Cupp and John Fought. Fought is the detail that elevates the credit: the 1977 U.S. Amateur champion grew up at the club and remains a member. Clubs hire famous architects all the time. Hiring one who learned the game on the course itself, and who stayed a member, is a different kind of renovation brief. Fought was not guessing at what Tualatin meant. He had been shaped by it. Our [Oregon state ranking](/blog/the-5-best-golf-courses-in-oregon/) counts that continuity as part of the course's case.

## The concession

Stated fairly: at 6,649 yards with 46 bunkers, Tualatin will not overwhelm a modern elite player the way a contemporary championship build does, and its architectural authorship is shared and partly uncertain in the early record. Golfers who collect famous solo designs may find the Egan, members, Junor layering unsatisfying. There is no single genius routing story to recite.

The counter is the century itself. Courses do not host eight state amateurs, survive a remodel by one of their own, and remain private fixtures of their community for 112 years by accident. The course is the accumulated work of people who cared about it because the wider golf world once told them to go build their own. They did. It is still here, river running through it, and the Oregon Amateur kept coming back as recently as 2025.

Access is private, with no public green fees. The club's own material is clear that membership costs sit in a high estimate tier only, and we will leave the number there: estimates for a club of this age and standing in the Portland suburbs run high, and the club publishes nothing firmer. The route in is membership or a member's invitation, the way it has worked since the members laid out the first nine themselves in 1913.

The centennial record adds one more layer worth noting. The Oregon Amateurs at Tualatin run from 1922 through 2025, which means the club hosted the state championship in the leather ball era and in the era of the modern driver, on substantially the same river ground. Courses get redesigned out of championship relevance all the time. Tualatin stayed relevant by being cared for in increments, the Cupp and Fought remodel among them, rather than being replaced in a panic when equipment changed.

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