Company Profile
Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club
Company Overview
Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club (AGYC) is a small homeowner community located at the south end of the Hood Canal at “The Great Bend”. This quaint little community has over 650 lots and 500 member households living around a beautiful 18 hole championship golf course.
The community was established in 1965, and is a “hybrid association” - the HOA, a Washington not-for-profit corporation, plus for-profit licensed businesses for the golf course and clubhouse. The HOA owns its golf course, Clubhouse with restaurant, pro shop, maintenance building, annex building, and community parks. Community amenities include small library, activity rooms, tennis courts, pickle ball courts, community garden boxes, bocce, playground, basketball court, and a popular off leash area. HOA dues include unlimited golf for an entire family or two adults.
The Alderbrook golf course is cut into the forested hills just a mile above the Alderbrook Resort & Spa on the Hood Canal. When you play our finishing hole, you look over the 18th green, gaze at Hood Canal below, and see the majestic snow-capped Olympic mountains. The golf course is laid out with no parallel fairways, and the challenging, double dogleg 8th hole was designed to makes sure you do not get bored.
The Clubhouse caters wedding, receptions, family parties and major social events, as well as a great place for breakfast, lunch, dinner and the many social events for members. Walking in and being greeted by friends creates a friendly and memorable atmosphere.
Social activities:
The Yacht club in our title is a reminder that golf is not our only recreation. There are active Men’s and Women’s Golf Groups, and a Putter’s Club, offering a series of tournaments and regular golf options. We also have weekly bridge, hand & foot and poker card groups, mahjong, and Mexican Train dominoes. Yacht Club (no boat required!) meets monthly for a community potluck and Bocce tournaments. There are also several monthly Book Clubs. The clubhouse celebrates holidays, including Christmas, New Year’s, and Fourth of July, plus holds many events, including Bingo nights, Karaoke parties, wine club, art classes, yoga and exercise classes.
About the area:
The Hood Canal is not a canal at all. It’s a forested saltwater fjord 70 miles long with water temperatures over 70 degrees in summer. The millions of oysters that live here flourish in that temperature. The Canal with its surrounding area is practically untouched; it is unspoiled and unbelievably beautiful. Enjoy a scenic journey along the Canal on Hwys 101 and 106. Visit a winery, a gift shop, an oyster shack or maybe enjoy a picnic by the shore. You might want to hike a mountain trail, scuba dive the octopus hole, kayak the canal, study a tide pool, or just explore the many hidden coves and oyster beaches. The Hood Canal and its mountain streams and rolling rivers attract salmon for local anglers each season.
If you love nature, you will love standing on the shore to watch cormorants, great blue herons, seals, sea lions, eagles and many other varieties of waterfowl, shorebirds, songbirds and birds of prey.
Going to America!
When you just have to go back to the city, there are lots of choices: Bremerton ferry to Seattle; Southworth & Fauntleroy ferries to West Seattle, Highway 16 across the Narrows Bridge to Tacoma, or Highway 101 to Olympia and I-5 to Seattle or Portland. The Kingston-Edmonds ferry goes to North Seattle. No matter which way you go, it takes about 2 hours.
Rain myths:
Weather in Western Washington is, at best, strange. From October through April, most of our storms come off the Pacific, and Hood Canal gets it first and most. We get 2 to 3 inches on the same day Seattle only gets an inch. However, from May through September, the storms come off the Gulf of Alaska, and we hide in the “Shadow of the Olympics” for an almost drought situation. Seattle and north through the “convergence zone” have more rainy days during that time of year.
Where to go from here:
You can drive about 1 ½ hours and be on the beach at Ocean Shores to cool down or watch the high surf from the jetty. Taking a weekend trip to the Oregon Coast? It’s just over 2 hours to the North Coast. How about antiquing or gallery-hopping in Port Townsend? It’s just 1 ½ hours up beautiful Hwy 101.
For shopping, Shelton is only 10 miles away. Olympia, to the south, is just 40 minutes away, with more expanded options such as shopping malls, Costco, and other major chain-type stores. There are also lots of restaurant choices.
The Kitsap Mall in Silverdale is 45 minutes to the north, and Seattle is 2 hours away. There are several other restaurants in the area, plus charming boutiques and antique shops to browse nearby.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Homeowners purchased golf course in 2002, approved special assessment and built new clubhouse in 2009, and approved special 5-year assessment for roads and drainage work in 2019.