The biggest summer news in the destination golf comes from Central Washington, where the Gamble Sands is set to trim the ribbon in its second course with 18 holes. called GrillAnd it opens to the public this Friday. Before discovering this discovery, here are five things they need to know about the course.
1. It’S’S A KIDD DAVID MCLAY design
Unlike Bandon Dunes, Streamsong and Sand Valley, who have tapped numerous architects for their projects, Gamble Sands has all gone to McLay Kidd, who also designed the original resort course with 18 holes; Its PAR-3 course with 14 holes, quicksands; And its course, cascades.
2. It’S’S is where McLay Kidd wanted to build the first 18
Although Scarecrrow shares the main traits with her older sister-her wide routes are wide, her terrain is ardent-her breast is more complicated and her greens are richer. It also offers more commanding views for a course that runs along the Blofies and ridges overlooking the Columbia River valley. It all adds to a more demanding test, though it is still difficult to lose a ball.
The Scarecrow page is where McLay Kidd wanted to build the original course more than a decade ago. At that time, however, the unstable power lines, which were then buried, have been lying on the property, so McLay Kidd used another surface for its first model. That course, Gamble Sands, ranked in Golf Magazine list 100 main courses in the United States.
3. Name nodes in the region
Gamble Sands is owned by a long agricultural family, and Scarecrrow is a lid for those agricultural roots. At brain storm sessions, the name won on candidates such as COB Old (a reference to corn growth) and deer farm (an allusion to a local local local creator). At one point, McLay Kidd (half jokingly) proposed the baptism of the course twisted sister-a wilder sister. Another option was Trail Horse Thief for a trail that passed through the property. But for the family, Scarecrrow controlled all the boxes, including the fact that it was friendly with the logo, good for trading.
4. Routing builds on drama
Like many great models, Scarecrrow opens with a friendly hands-a-4 short hands that plays on a ball on a speed slab on the bending of the road that gently left. From there the course begins a gradual climb before it flows towards the valley of the river into the holes that collide against the bluffs. Much of this stretch provides a post-cartoline panorama, no one more wonderful than the PAR-3 9 appearance, which plays towards the valley, its green adapted to the background near the river valley. In par-3 11, the course doubles again in itself, but it is so understood, as McLay Kidd and its design partner, Nick Schaan, intended to use a startling green site occupied at a point along the bluffs.
5. There is room for more
Owners in Gamble Sands have a lot of land and enough room for extra golf. But it is premature to talk about any future projects. Meanwhile, however, Scarecrrow nuds the resort on the new industry territory. An axiom of the Golf Business Business, originally credited to the founder of the bandon Dunes, Mike Keizer, is that a course qualifies as a curiosity, but two courses are counted as a destination. Gamble Sands, whose draw has been largely regional since it opened, now meets a higher wave metric with the potential for more powerful national attraction.
