To one direction cliffs breaking into clear waters and snow capped mountains, to the other waist high grasses blowing in the breeze, lush greens climbing up the sky, and sand dunes you can literally get lost in. The perfect place for a photo shoot, but for 18 holes of championship golf definitely a challenge to test your character. Chambers Bay just outside of Tacoma, Washington needs to be on the “must play before I die” list.
No carts or vehicles are allowed on the course, so travel light on equipment and work that cardio for the month prior. The course has over 100 foot elevations on a number of single fairways, but when you get to the top the view can only be described as “breathtaking!”.
Puget Sound sits just to the west with the Olympic mountains in the background. For sunset the emerald green fairways drape straight up like a giant cyclorama. If you are partial to sand and waist high grasses the dunes are your dream realized.
Designed by Robert Trent Jones II on the site of an old mine you can acquire insight to yourself and crew. On my fourth stroke in the 200 yard dune not frustration but non stop laughter proved what we were made of. The landforms bank around the greens giving the impression of the largest most phenomenally gorgeous billiard hole as you fly up the fast and hard fairways. You will be hard pressed to ever experience anything like this again outside of Ireland. Get there soon, the 2015 US Open will showcase this spectacular location to the world and then tee times will be scarce.
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