Banks Lake at Banks Lake Golf & Country Club

Banks Lake Golf & Country Club sits in the dramatic landscape of central Washington's Columbia Basin, where the course occupies terrain shaped by the region's distinctive geology. The layout was designed by Keith Hellstrom, a Pacific Northwest architect whose work appears primarily in Washington and Oregon. The course takes its name from Banks Lake, a reservoir created as part of the Columbia Basin Project's irrigation infrastructure, which defines much of the area's modern character.

The setting in Electric City places the course within the Grand Coulee region, where basalt cliffs, coulees, and high desert topography create a stark contrast to the irrigated fairways. The routing works with significant elevation changes and the natural contours carved by ancient glacial floods. Players encounter views of the surrounding coulee walls and the engineered landscape of one of the West's major reclamation projects.

The course serves a small community in a remote part of Washington, where golf operates within the rhythms of a region defined more by agriculture, hydroelectric power, and outdoor recreation than by traditional resort or metropolitan golf culture. The layout provides a distinctive playing experience shaped by its unusual geological setting and the isolation of its location in the channeled scablands of the Columbia Plateau.