Circling Raven Golf Club in Northern Idaho
If you're sick of golf courses with houses along the fairways - or anything near the course for that matter - Circling Raven Golf Club in Worley, Idaho can be your salvation.
This golf course on Native American Indian land in Northern Idaho (about an hour from the Spokane Airport in Washington state) is nothing but nature. As far as the eye can see. And them some. In fact, on its 11-18 stretch, you can look in every direction and not see anything but the hole you're on.
The Circling Raven staff calls them the "360-degree holes." In all, Circling Raven boasts more than eight and a half miles of cart path.
Circling Raven Golf Club in Idaho
Circling Raven Golf Club puts only nature in your face.
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Circling Raven Golf Club
Circling Raven features a number of forced carries off the tee.
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Circling Raven Golf Club in Northern Idaho
With so much room, holes can seem huge at Circling Raven Golf Club.
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Circling Raven golf course in Idaho
It's you and the ponderosa pines at Circling Raven.
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Circling Raven golf course
Circling Raven Golf Club has distinctive white sand bunkers.
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Circling Raven golf course in northern Idaho
Doglegs take dramatic turns at Circling Raven.
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Circling Raven G.C. in Idaho
Land in Circling Raven's massive side hill bunkers and you have a lot of work to do.
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Circling Raven G.C. in northern Idaho
Circling Raven Golf Club's holes can seem like their own countries.
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Circling Raven G.C.
It's easy to think your group is the only one on the course at Circling Raven.
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Circling Raven Golf Club in Worley, Idaho
Greens can be tucked back in the trees at Circling Raven Golf Club.
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Circling Raven golf course in Worley, Idaho
It's man versus nature at Circling Raven Golf Club.
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Circling Raven G.C. in Worley, Idaho
The back nine at Circling Raven Golf Club boasts an eight-hole finishing stretch of "360-degree" holes.
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Worley, Idaho's Circling Raven Golf Club
You do still get good landing targets at Circling Raven Golf Club.
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Worley, Idaho's Circling Raven golf course
Circling Raven Golf Club's trees are massive, reaching into the Northern Idaho blue sky.
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