The journey to Lake Cushman Golf Course begins at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, roughly two hours north, before tracing the western edge of Puget Sound toward the Olympic Peninsula. The drive follows Highway 101 as it curves along Hood Canal, where saltwater narrows give way to dense evergreen forest and the first hints of the Olympic Mountains rising to the west. A brief turn inland on North Lake Cushman Road carries you through towering Douglas fir and cedar, the pavement narrowing as civilization recedes, until the course emerges along the southern shore of its namesake glacial lake - a secluded pocket of fairways carved from wilderness, far removed from the noise of the coast.