200 Sands Trail Road Brewster, WA 98812 |
(509) 436-8323 http://www.gamblesands.com/ |
Price to Play $151 - $199 |
Gamble Sands is located just outside Brewster on the banks of the Columbia River.
The layout, built on a sand base like traditional links courses, is a wide-ranging design with firm and fast, broad fairways bordered by natural areas, sage, desert brush, waste, and conventional sand bunkers. It's a natural setting with stunning views across the Columbia River without homes, roads, and cart paths interrupting the scenery. The greens are large, sloped, contoured, and well-protected by sand bunkers. There's five sets of tees overall, the tips play to 7,169 yards, 74.2/128, course/slope ratings, with the middle tees at 6,207 yards, 69.7/118. It was designed by David McLay Kidd, who's known for designing Bandon Dunes, The Castle Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, and Tetherow, among others.
The Quicksands course is a 14-hole short course on a 25-acre tract of tumbling sand dunes designed by Kidd. The holes range from 60 to 160 yards and have been named Plinko, Boomerang, Crater, and Corkscrew, among others, to foreshadow the hole's challenge.