June 3rd in Save Some Green.

Save Some Green: Sumner Meadows Golf Links

Wedged between a noisy train track and an industrial park, nearly barren of trees, the land on which Sumner Meadows Golf Links was laid is hardly the stuff of a golf architect’s dreams.

Unless that golf architect is John Harbottle III. A native of Tacoma — and the man behind such Northwest gems as The Olympic Course at Gold Mountain and the all-new Palouse Ridge in Pullman — Harbottle saw not a noisy train, but a classic, character-adding visual element; not …