Spring golf in the Pacific Northwest means longer days, dry stretches, and courses finally firing on all cylinders — but it also means aerification season. If you've shown up to your home course only to find the greens freshly punched and putting like a dirt road, you know the frustration. We've put together the full 2026 Greater Portland area spring aerification schedule so you can plan around it, find courses that are already healed up, or at least know what you're walking

Spring in the Pacific Northwest means longer days, the return of evening rounds, and courses starting to come back to life. It also means aerification season. Right when the weather turns and you’re ready to get back out there consistently, you might roll up to the course and see freshly punched greens. Not ideal… but necessary. Golf Course Aerification Why Courses Aerify Each Spring Aerification (or aeration) is when courses punch small holes into the greens and remove plugs

The Idaho Club doesn't care about your handicap. Perched along the shores of Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho with the Selkirk Mountains as your backdrop, this Jack Nicklaus Signature design is as visually stunning as it is brutally unforgiving. OB on nearly every hole, tight landing areas, and zero margin for lazy thinking — you will leave feeling like the course won. But that's exactly why it belongs on every serious Pacific Northwest golfer's bucket list.