Architect

Nick Schaan

1 course on BogeyMap are attributed to Nick Schaan.

Courses on BogeyMap: 1
State: 1
Avg LooperAI score: 89.5
Highest rated: Gamble Sands - Scarecrow Course

Biography

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Where the work is: WA

Courses on BogeyMap (1)

Scarecrow first tee sign with the putting green and rolling fescue hills at Gamble Sands, Brewster, Washington

Resort18 holes

Gamble Sands - Scarecrow Course

89.5LooperAI score

Brewster, WA

Scarecrow is the second 18-hole course at Gamble Sands Resort in Brewster, Washington. David McLay Kidd designed it with his longtime design partner Nick Schaan, and it opened for public play on August 1, 2025, more than a decade after Kidd's original Gamble Sands course opened on the same property above the Columbia River. The course sits on 300 acres of steeper, more rumpled ground than its sister course, built where cornfields once stood next to the resort's apple and cherry orchards. Fescue turf is kept firm and fast, fairways are wide, and the holes run closer together than at the original course, giving Scarecrow a tighter, more layered feel while keeping sweeping views of the river valley. Scarecrow plays to a par of 71 and stretches to about 6,921 yards from the back tees. It is open to public play as part of Gamble Sands Resort, alongside the original Gamble Sands course and the short Quicksands course.