Debuting in 1975, the Port Ludlow Golf Club was the first of the high-end daily fee courses built in Western Washington, and it remains one of few that is part of a complete salt water resort including a small inn and on-site marina.  But to golfers, all the amenities are secondary.  It is the beautiful, but challenging, Robert Muir Graves designed course that is the attraction. 

Port Ludlow's setting is incredible, always near the Puget Sound bay for which it is named, the course rocks and rolls through snug tree-lined fairways.  Indeed, like many Kitsap and Olympic peninsula courses, Port Ludlow is cut through dense second-growth forest, however in this case, Graves left many of the huge stumps remaining from the old growth forest in place -- both as occasional hazards and as reminders of the wild and wooly logging days gone by.  Indeed, those days are a big part of history of the town of Port Ludlow and other nearby communities, like quaint, scenic Port Townsend.