Washington’s Top-10 Public Golf Courses

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Gamble Sands • Brewster

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The best golf courses are those that make it easy to forget about everything else going on in your life. Those that encourage you to let go of your daily struggles and focus instead on that which lies before you, including beautiful scenery and an intriguing layout.

Our voters apparently felt the same, elevating Gamble Sands past all but the current U.S. Open host in this, its first year of eligibility on our ballot. It’s a remarkable debut for a track with a three-digit greens fee (which drops under $100 in spring and fall), a remote location (about 40 minutes north of Chelan) and a seven-month playing season.

To overcome all of those obstacles, Gamble Sands had to be great — and it is. Sloping fairways, backboards that funnel approaches towards the hole, reachable par-4s and par-5s, creative par-3s, expansive sandy wastes and some of the best views in the state … when you’re here, you don’t want to be anywhere else.

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