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| The game of golf was born on rugged, wind swept land like the Oregon coast. Bandon Dunes is perched 100 feet above the Pacific, representing links golf at its finest. |
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| Pacific Dunes (my favorite among Bandon’s four courses) has several holes with stunning views. Golf Digest ranks it as the #3 public golf course in the US, just behind Pebble Beach and Whistling Straits. |
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| The gorst was in a spring bloom of waxy yellow flowers, along with plenty of thorns. |
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| Visualizing the tee shot over the gorge. |
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| There are no golf carts at Bandon, so 8 miles of walking per day is about normal for one round. The courses are super-sized, double the size of a normal golf course. (Not wider or longer, but more acreage between holes.) You also don’t see other golfers very often. It feels more like a walk along the ocean or the woods. As Mark Twain said, “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” |
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| Wild turkeys at Bandon Trails had romance, not golf, on their minds. |
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| A toast to several days of great weather and great company, with our caddie and friend, Benny Moore. |
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| Benny and Mike walking up to the drives on Bandon Trails. |
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| The Old MacDonald course has a famous bell, rung after you finish the hole, so the group behind you knows it’s OK to tee off to the blind green. |
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| Pacific Dunes in all its late afternoon glory. “Golf as it was meant to be.” |
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