Evanston sits in the far southwestern corner of Wyoming, just a few miles from the Utah border and perched near 6,800 feet in the Uinta Basin's high desert. The name Purple Sage isn't borrowed atmosphere — the aromatic shrub blankets the surrounding landscape in earnest, and the wide-open sagebrush terrain shapes the feel of the course as much as any bunker or water hazard. At this elevation, the air is thin and the ball travels, which tends to make the layout play shorter than the card suggests.
As a city-owned facility, Purple Sage serves the everyday golf needs of a small but sports-minded community of roughly 12,000 people. Courses like this one are the backbone of the American game — accessible, unpretentious, and genuinely tied to the place they occupy rather than engineered for spectacle.
The surrounding region offers dramatic high-country scenery, with the Uinta Mountains rising to the south. Golfers visiting from lower elevations will notice the altitude immediately, both in their legs on the longer walks and in just how far a well-struck shot can fly.
