A short season has Alaskan golfers looking for the best course they can lay their clubs on and Eagleglen Golf Course on Emlenton Air Force Base, just south of Anchorage uses blue grass fairways and Poa Annua grass on its greens to provide quick readiness between the short summers and longer winters. With such as short period in which to get ready for a new season of play, Eagleglen has the routine mastered.

Rated the best course in the state for the 1995-95 season as well as the 1997-98 season, Eagleglen hosts the annual Alaska International Pro-Am as well as the State Amateur competition and the public links golf tournaments. Do not let its location on a military base fool you, there is little regimentation involved in negotiating the tight, tree-lined fairways leading to small, really fast greens.

Conditions of the course will vary by year depending on the harshness and length of the Alaskan winter, but it is not just the course that brings people back to Eagleglen. Playing past a grizzly bear who claims its food in the middle of the fairway and playing past soaring Eagles and wild moose makes this course one of the most wonder-filled spots in the states. Views of the mountains sloping towards the course near the Chugach State Park offer splendid scenery not available at most courses in the lower 48 states.

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., Eagleglen offers the kind of play many only dream of when they add the spectacular views into the equation. At just over 6,000 yards from the middle tees and slightly under 6,700 yards from the back tees, the course may not be as long as many championship courses. Yet the need for straight tee shots and accurate approaches make this course extremely challenging.