Located on the southwestern coast of Oregon, Bandon Dunes Resort is one of the country's largest and most popular golf resorts. It is home to pure links golf on bluffs along the Pacific Ocean. The first course opened in 1999, Bandon Dunes, and was soon joined by Pacific Dunes, a Tom Doak design, which vaulted to as high as the best public course…
The remote stretch of wild dunes along the Pacific Ocean may feel like the end of the world, but travel to Bandon Dunes Golf Resort on the southwestern coast of Oregon keeps getting easier. The course's emergence has created enough demand from travelers all over the world to increase access to the region's airport, and new flights are coming.
Already the top pure links retreat in America in just over 10 years of operation, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort attracts golfers with a special affinity for the game's history, especially the sod. Since Bandon Dunes can't turn the clock back 100 years, they've done the next best thing: building a course inspired by Charles Blair Macdonald, considered by many to be the "Father of American Golf Architecture.
A wildfire just north of Bandon Dunes Resort along the Oregon coastline promoted area evacuations, including golfers on the Old Macdonald and Pacific Dunes golf courses.
The best golf course in America? That's a claim that's sure to cause some 19th Hole debate into the wee hours. Bandon Dunes Resort's Pacific Dunes is certainly unlike anything else you've played in the States, and it's definitely the top pure links creation in North America.
Bandon Dunes owner Mike Keiser used the famous putting courses at St. Andrews and Pinehurst as inspiration for his brand-new Punchbowl, a two-acre putting course with more curves than Kate Upton. Matt Ginella has more from Oregon.
Since its opening in 1999, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has pledged its support of amateur golf. Hosting the 2019 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship and 2020 U.S. Amateur will further that commitment.
While its sister golf course, Pacific Dunes, gets most of the publicity, Bandon Dunes is still a great play, Brandon Tucker writes. Ten years in, the original course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has only gotten better with age.
Few golf courses in the world can be considered one of the nation's best - and also the least prestigious of three courses at its resort. Such is the case with the new Bandon Trails at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort on the west coast of Oregon.
Bandon Dunes is going to be taking the mysterious, free-form Sheep Ranch course and turning it into the resort's fifth layout. Here's why that matters.
Sometimes, a caddie can make all the difference on the golf course. Jason Scott Deegan compiled all the public and resort courses that offer their services.
Nobody likes playing in the rain, but there are ways to make your round more tolerable. Just make sure you pack the proper gear and keep the right mindset.
Watson Ranch Golf Club -- located about 10 minutes away from Coos Bay, Ore. -- was originally founded in 1923 by I.R. Tower as a nine-hole golf course and was extended to an 18-hole course in 1998. The new nine was designed by Bill Robinson. With mountain lakes and great views, Watson Ranch has a lot to offer. Get a closer glimpse with this photo gallery.
The fourth 18-hole golf course to open at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort will be Old Macdonald, inspired by the great holes of legendary architect C.B. Macdonald, who built National Golf Links near Boston. Preview play on a 10-hole loop is being offered on Old Macdonald until it fully opens in the summer of 2010.
Bandon Dunes Golf Resort's enormous Old Macdonald Course is Tom Doak and Jim Urbina's attempt to channel the style of classic architect Charles Blair Macdonald. Mike Bailey takes a look.
Old Macdonald Golf Links is the fourth course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. Opened in 2010, Old Macdonald is a tribute to American golf course architect C.B. Macdonald, founder of the USGA. Designed by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina, the course features the principles that Macdonald incorporated into his designs.
At Pacific Dunes -- the top-rated course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and arguably the best public-access course in America -- the views and picturesque holes never let up.
Bandon Dunes' par-3 Bandon Preserve course is perfect preparation for the resort's regulation courses -- or simply a great option late in the day for anyone who wants a quick, but challenging round.
David McLay Kidd introduced the Oregon coast to the world by designing Bandon Dunes in 1999. Other great courses have been built at this iconic resort since, but this seaside wonder jump-started America's love affair with this remote resort four hours south of Portland. The coastal setting offers everything necessary for links golf: sand dunes, thick native vegetation, blown-out bunkers, sweeping slopes, ever-present wind and soul-stirring ocean views.
It can't be easy being Bandon Trails, one of four outstanding golf courses at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. All four are on Golfweek's list of best resort courses for 2012, but Bandon Trails pulls up the rear -- at No. 11. Still, the Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw design more than holds its own with its sister courses.
The weather did hampered Jason Deegan's chance to get some great photography at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, but he still managed to snap some cool golf shots ... all with my iPhone. You can, too.
Just minutes away from the famous Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is another pretty cool 6,855-yard course providing an entirely different experience, Bandon Crossings.
The Pacific Dunes course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has been called the best golf course in America. While that fact may be debatable, there's little debate that the links land on which Pacific Dunes was built is among the best in the U.S. and that Tom Doak created a links masterpiece.
In less than a decade of operation, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has built a worldwide reputation as North America's top pure links experience. The resort's flagship course, Bandon Dunes, debuted in 1999. Since then, Pacific Dunes and Bandon Trails have built upon the storied legacy.
Bandon Dunes Golf Resort on Oregon's southern coast is home to four of America's top golf courses. The resort was the conception of Mike Keiser, an avid lover of links golf in Scotland, and the resort was built in a similar mold. Here's a look at some of WorldGolf.com Senior Writer Brandon Tucker's best photos from his trip in the summer of 2009.
Bandon Crossings Golf Course, located along the southern coast of Oregon, isn't affiliated with the famous Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. But Bandon Crossings, located about 10 miles away from Bandon Dunes down Highway 101, is making a name for itself. Designed in 2005 by Dan Hixson, Bandon Crossings was named one of the top 10 new courses in 2007 by Golf Magazine.
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