Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

Bandon Dunes is quite arguably the most remarkable and acclaimed golf course complex to open anywhere in the world in decades, and is probably best explained in Stephen Goodwin's excellent 2006 book "Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes."

Bandon founder Mike Keiser chose Scotland's David McLay Kidd to design the first course here (Bandon Dunes), and after it opened to worldwide acclaim, Keiser chose "retro-traditionalist" Tom Doak to design the second course, Pacific Dunes soon ... [more]

Bandon Dunes is quite arguably the most remarkable and acclaimed golf course complex to open anywhere in the world in decades, and is probably best explained in Stephen Goodwin's excellent 2006 book "Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes."

Bandon founder Mike Keiser chose Scotland's David McLay Kidd to design the first course here (Bandon Dunes), and after it opened to worldwide acclaim, Keiser chose "retro-traditionalist" Tom Doak to design the second course, Pacific Dunes soon after. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, another pair of traditionalist-leaning architects, who are justifiably famous for Sand Hills in Mullen, Nebraska, designed Bandon's third course (Brandon Trails), while Tom Doak and close associate Jim Urbina are doing the fourth course, Old Macdonald (a tribute to architect C.B. Macdonald), scheduled to open in 2010.

Perhaps Golf Odyssey summed it up best: "It is here, on this remote stretch of the wildly stunning Oregon coast, where the finest golf courses in the whole world quietly await you."

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