The Gamble Sands Pilgrimage

The top-ranked links destination hiding in Washington's high desert — David McLay Kidd's wide, joyful Sands Course plus the new Scarecrow and a knockout short course. Big fairways, bigger views, and a remote-resort calm.

Why It's a Pilgrimage

Gamble Sands is the destination golfers keep discovering late and then can't stop raving about: enormous, generous fairways above the Columbia River that make scratch players and 20-handicaps equally happy. The 2023 addition of the Scarecrow course turned a great course into a two-day pilgrimage, and the Quicksands short course is pure dusk-light fun. It is the under-the-radar bucket-lister — remote enough to feel earned, fun enough to stay an extra round.

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