When my hometown of Savannah becomes a late-spring steam bath, there is nowhere I’d rather stray to than the cool and refreshing grandeur of the great Northwest. Oregon’s Bandon Dunes Resort has become one of the game’s most desirable destinations in the last decade. Washington’s year-old Chambers Bay is the “new new thing,” an amazingly authentic links course near Tacoma, future host of both the US Amateur and Open. But from a pure golf perspective, neither venue has anything on the remarkably capacious and totally thrilling Circling Raven Golf Club, in the Idaho Panhandle, just east of Spokane. Circling Raven is ...