sunset across 12 acres of par 3s—wild contours cut into black sand
▦ hero—sunset across 12 acres of par 3s—wild contours cut into black sand
Destinations / Gamble Sands / Quicksands

Quicksands

14 par-3 holes, 60 to 180 yards—every short-game shot you own.
Designers
David McLay Kidd
Par
42
Yardage
1,600
Style
Links · walking only
Green fee
from $60

Quicksands is David McLay Kidd's 14-hole short course at Gamble Sands, par 42 over 1,600 yards, with holes ranging from a 60-yard flip wedge to a full 180-yard mid-iron.

It rewards creativity—bump-and-runs, bank shots off the slopes, putts from well off the green—as much as it rewards a good wedge game.

Signature stretch
Circular Quicksands green ringing a central sand pit at sunsetThe Donut
Fourteen ways to play

Quicksands packs fourteen par 3s of 60 to 180 yards into twelve acres, with hole names—Plinko, Crater, Donut—that tell you exactly what you're in for. Greens backstop, feed, and in one famous case ring a pit of sand you putt around. Buried speakers play music the whole way; nobody keeps score for long.

backstops and broken ground from above
last light over the short course
image
ringed green, sand center
Dining on-property
Danny Boy Bar & Grill
$35 pp
American · dinner
Book a tee time
Green fee$60
Book at Gamble Sands tee sheet
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