Golf in University Place

University Place is a Pierce County city above the Puget Sound bluffs west of Tacoma, internationally known as the site of Chambers Bay Golf Course, host of the 2015 US Open. The course's dramatic bluff-top setting above Puget Sound with views to the Olympic Mountains created one of the most discussed US Open venues in the championship's history. Oakbrook Golf and Country Club serves the private community's established members. The University Place community's combination of championship golf legacy and residential quality creates a distinctive Pierce County identity. Washington's extraordinary geographic diversity — the rain-soaked western slopes, the Puget Sound waterways, the Cascade Range's volcanic peaks, and the sun-baked eastern plateau — creates community characters as varied as the landscape, and local golf reflects each region's specific natural and economic identity.