Register now for 2026 tee time lottery at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
Dreaming of a first trip to Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in coastal Oregon to see what all the fuss is about? Already been, and itching to return? You better plan early – very early.
The incredibly popular resort, which features five 18-hole courses ranked highly among the best modern courses and resort layouts in the U.S., has announced a new pre-reservation methodology for scoring a tee time. Registration already is open for 2026. Yes, 2026.
Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has opened three registration windows for 2026 tee times, based on time of year in which a golfer hopes to obtain a tee time. The windows are:
Registration window closes Dec. 24: This first window is for tee times in January through April 2026.
Registration window closes Jan. 19, 2025: This second window is for tee times in May through September 2026.
Registration window closes April 20, 2025: This third window is for tee times in October through December 2026.
Within a couple weeks of the close of each window, there will be a random drawing to determine the order for reservation requests. Potential guests who are chosen in the random drawing will then be assigned a number that indicates their place in line, and Bandon Dunes Golf Resort’s booking team will call players when it’s their turn to select dates and courses.
All this is necessary because the resort has dealt with such a high call volume when previous booking windows have opened in recent years.
Tom Doak has routed Old Shores on sand dunes near Panama City, Florida.
After news was reported last week that a development order had been approved by Washington County for a new course in the Florida Panhandle, Dream Golf announced Friday the name and designer for the 18-hole project.
Architect Tom Doak has routed what will become Old Shores, assuming all necessary permitting continues to be approved. The course will be built 30 miles north of the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport that services Panama City.
The course will be an easy drive from the 30A region of beaches in South Walton County between Panama City and Destin, which has grown at an astonishing rate in recent years. The property is about a 30-minute drive north of Panama City Beach.
Speculation about the course has swirled in recent years, as happens with any project by Dream Golf. The collection of properties includes Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon and Sand Valley in Wisconsin, with new projects on the way outside Denver and another in Texas.
The first step in planning for Old Shores has been approved by Washington County in Florida. (Courtesy of Dream Golf)
The development order was the first step in receiving official sign-off to build Old Shores. As reported by the Washington County News, the development order was for 80 acres for the golf course amid 1,438 acres that have been acquired. No plans for further development have been announced or approved.
The name Old Shores is a reflection of the sandy dunes on the site, which used to be shoreline before the Gulf of Mexico receded to its current boundaries to the south thousands of years ago. Dream Golf said there is no set timetable for construction or completion.
“This land just makes you want to get to the next bend or over the next hill,” developer Michael Keiser said in a news release announcing the name of the course and Doak’s involvement. “There is so much variety – it’s hard to believe you could experience so many environments in one place. Every time I visit, I discover a side I had never seen before. This is an amazing and unexpected site.”
The site for Old Shores to be designed by Tom Doak for Dream Golf, assuming all permitting is eventually approved, is about 30 miles north of the Panama City, Florida, airport. (Courtesy of Dream Golf)
Micheal Keiser is the son of Mike Keiser, the developer of Bandon Dunes. Michael and his brother Chris are the developers of Sand Valley, the in-progress Rodeo Dunes in Colorado and the in-progress Wild Springs Dunes in Texas.
“We are grateful for the reception we received from Washington County, and we are eager to continuing the process of presenting our plans for this extraordinary property,” Michael Keiser said in the release. “I’ve walked the routing with Tom Doak numerous times, and I know this will be world-class.”
Doak’s extensive resume includes building the Pacific Dunes course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, which is ranked by Golfweek’s Best as the top public-access course in Oregon and the No. 3 modern course in the U.S. Doak recently completed the now-open Sedge Valley course at Sand Valley, and he also constructed the Lido at Sand Valley, which brought back to life a famous but lost course on Long Island.
Riggs set Twitter ablaze when he inferred that he’d made an ace at the famous Oregon resort.
Barstool Sports’ Sam “Riggs” Bozoian missed this week’s edition of the Fore Play podcast because he was off playing Bandon Dunes.
So although he wasn’t part of the twice-weekly podcast, he lit the Twitterverse (X-verse?) ablaze on Friday when he posted that he’d just made an ace at the famous Oregon resort that houses five of the top 14 courses on the Golfweek’s Best top 100 U.S. public-access layouts list.
Via social media, Riggs said he was buying drinks for those on hand at Bandon Dunes after he posted this photo, which infers that he made an ace:
It’s tough to see in the photo if any part of the ball is below the lip of the hole. But if it’s not, rule13.2c of the USGA Rules and Interpretations explains this scenario in detail.
13.2c. Ball Resting Against Flagstick in Hole
If your ball comes to rest against the flagstick left in the hole, and any part of your ball is in the hole below the surface of the putting green, your ball is treated as holed.
If no part of your ball is in the hole below the surface of the putting green:
Your ball is not holed and must be played as it lies.
If the flagstick is removed and your ball moves (whether it falls into the hole or moves away from the hole), there is no penalty and it must be replaced on the lip of the hole.
According to the National Hole-In-One Association, a tee shot hit by an amateur golfer on a par 3 goes into the hole one out of every 12,750 times.
Our hundreds of raters weigh in on the best public-access and private courses in Oregon.
Looking to play the best golf courses in Oregon? Welcome to our annual Golfweek’s Best ranking of public-access and private courses.
Following are the rankings for both types of courses, as judged by our nationwide network of raters. The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce all our Golfweek’s Best course rankings.
The courses on the first list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time – no membership required.
KEY: (m) modern, built in 1960 or after; (c) classic, built before 1960. For courses with a number preceding the (m) or (c), that is where the course ranks on Golfweek’s Best lists for top 200 modern and classic courses in the U.S.
* indicates new or returning to the rankings
Best public-access courses in Oregon
The Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
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When the landscape is a links course, the mysteries are many, and the bounces good and bad, but rarely anything in between.
TROON, Scotland – Count PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele among the American golfers who love crossing the pond to play some authentic links golf, that band of earth where land and sea come together, in the summertime.
Schauffele, 30, is set to make his seventh appearance at the British Open this week here at Royal Troon. His best result is T-2 at the 2018 Open at Carnoustie. When the landscape is a links course, the mysteries are many, and the bounces good and bad, but rarely anything in between.
“I think links golf, there’s a certain attitude that you need to have to play at a high level. That comes with playing links golf. That’s sort of the first thing I learned when I was here,” Schauffele said on Tuesday during the pre-championship interview. “When you play parkland golf a lot, you feel like you need to be perfect and on. Not that you need to be perfect or on, but on a typical links golf course, there’s always several ways to play a hole. If the weather gets really bad, you just have to, as always, take the bunkers out of play and really try and plot your way around the property. It doesn’t have to be super pretty. You don’t have to hit the center of the face all the time. When it’s 50 degrees and raining, center contact doesn’t even feel like it anyways.”
Schauffele was asked to describe his first experience playing links golf and recalled a visit he made to Bandon Dunes in Oregon, which is home to five of the top 25 modern designs on Golfweek’s Best Modern list.
“That’s probably the closest thing to links that I’ve ever played. Maybe it’s a little bit better now since it’s a lot older. I played it – shoot, I’m old now – probably 15 years ago. Makes me feel really old saying that,” he said. “Bandon Dunes was rather new when I went. You played the ball down, and the ball was running and Pacific Dunes and Bandon Dunes were the two courses built. Now there’s 10.
Bandon Dunes, the original and eponymous course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
“It was cold and rainy, and I remember playing every hole in the wind and rain. My rain gear was completely irrelevant at some point, and I just kept going. I was 13 or 14 or 15 years old-ish and had the time of my life. It was something that I’d never experienced. I just expect it when I go to play links golf. I expect bad weather for it to play tough and for people to complain and whine. If you have a good attitude, you get that edge.”
Indeed, Bandon is about as good as it gets on this side of the pond.
Schauffele, the world No. 3, is one of two players along with Bryson DeChambeau to finish inside the top 10 in the first three majors this season – he also finished T-8 at the Masters and T-7 at the U.S. Open to go along with his victory at the PGA at Valhalla. Schauffele’s fondness for links golf makes him an ideal candidate to share the sentiments of five-time British Open winner Tom Watson.
“I’ve always hoped,” Watson once said, “that the last day of golf I play before I die will be 36 holes on the links of Scotland.”
The Keiser family plans two new courses in Texas to be designed by some of the biggest names in golf architecture.
The Keiser family is at it again, this time with a new resort named Wild Spring Dunes planned for East Texas. Several of the biggest names in golf course architecture will bring the project to life.
Chris and Michael Keiser, sons of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort founder Mike Keiser, have acquired a 2,400-acre site not far from Nacogdoches that eventually will be home to an announced two courses at Wild Spring Dunes. Draw a triangle from Houston up to Dallas with the third point in Shreveport, Louisiana, and the resort will sit just north of the center of that triangle.
One of the layouts will be designed by Tom Doak, who has completed his routing with construction set to begin soon. The team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have routed the second course. There also are plans for a short course, a practice center, cabins and a clubhouse. The involvement of Doak, Coore and Crenshaw is an extension of a long relationship in which they have designed world-class resort courses for the Keiser family and at other world-wide destinations that have opened with financial backing from Mike Keiser.
The site for Wild Spring Dunes in Texas (Courtesy of Dream Golf/Jeff Marsh)
Wild Spring Dunes will be part of Dream Golf, which is the collective of courses and resorts operated by the Keiser Family. The collective includes Bandon Dunes, Sand Valley and Rodeo Dunes.
Chris and Michael Keiser hit a home run on their first swing with their development of Sand Valley in Wisconsin, and the brothers announced last year their plans for Rodeo Dunes to the northeast of Denver. Wild Spring Dunes is the next in line of a continuously swirling series of speculations and rumors about the family’s future development plans. The family recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of Bandon Dunes in Oregon, which set off a trend of developers searching for remote sandy sites.
Wild Spring Dunes looks to be one more such development. The sandy terrain features considerable elevation changes in four distinct ecosystems with pines and hardwoods, steep ravines and spring-fed creeks.
“This land surprised me,” Michael Keiser said on a website announcing the development to prospective early members. “I would never have imagined this kind of property in Texas. The pine forests. The steep ravines. The big hills surrounding it. You walk the site, and it’s always changing, and you can see golf holes on every part of it.”
Chris Keiser and Michael Keiser with their dad, Mike Keiser, at Sand Valley in Wisconsin (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
As spelled out on the website, Wild Spring Dunes has solicited early members with an initial price of $65,000 until May 31, with that price then increasing to $75,000. Early members will not receive equity but will be the recipients of various perks, including having their green fees covered at what will be a public-access resort and early access to any possible real estate developments. The model is similar to how the Keiser brothers developed the popular Sand Valley, which has continued to expand and soon will be home to four courses.
Two of the courses at Sand Valley were built by Doak: the Lido, which is a re-creation of a century-old but defunct layout on Long Island, and the new Sedge Valley that is scheduled to open in July this year. As part of the communications with prospective members, Doak said he plans to make the most of 60 feet of elevation changes for his course at Wild Spring Dunes.
“The site in East Texas is not the sort of windblown dunes land we’ve worked on in Bandon and at Sand Valley,” said Doak, who recently opened a new course at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina named No. 10. “It’s more like Pine Valley, rolling land that falls off on three sides into deep barrancas. Reminiscent of Pasatiempo or L.A. Country Club (both in California). Pine trees abound, as does a heathery ground cover.”
Coore and Crenshaw built the original and eponymous course at Sand Valley for the Keiser brothers, as well as designing two full-size courses – Bandon Trails and Sheep Ranch – and the popular Bandon Preserve par-3 course at Bandon Dunes for the brothers’ father. They also are building one of the first courses at Rodeo Dunes.
“It’s a marvelous place that feels as though it was destined for golf,” Coore said of Wild Spring Dunes in the communications with prospective members. “The site is thrilling, sandy, and the routing has come together very naturally. We can’t wait to see it come to life.”
Developer Mike Keiser’s Oregon resort led to a shift in course development around the world.
(Editor’s note: Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is celebrating its 25th anniversary and Golfweek Travel EditorJason Luskput together a comprehensive package for the occasion, complete with Q&As of pivotal people in and around the operation. To see the entire package of stories, click here.)
BANDON, Ore. – Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, changed the games of golf and golf development in the United States and much of the world. It’s that simple.
Since the original eponymous layout opened in May of 1999, many other public-access developers have tried to mimic the success that Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser has realized with five 18-hole courses on the largely empty, frequently sandy southwest coast of Oregon.
Sandy sites have become key targets in far-flung locales, regardless of proximity to the ocean. A frequent focus has returned to classic golf architecture instead of home sales. At almost every large-scale development since the turn of the century, the voices behind the projects loudly proclaim the golf comes first.
“I’m as amazed as anyone,” said Keiser, who made his fortune in greeting cards before turning his attention to golf.
Bandon Dunes wasn’t the first resort to focus on some variation of location, or architecture, or customer satisfaction. Those were key drivers for many classic resorts, with Pinehurst in North Carolina or Pebble Beach in California serving as great examples as they have evolved over decades.
Developer Mike Keiser (third from left) dealt with rain on opening day of Bandon Dunes in 1999, but the future was bright. (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
But Keiser showed what was possible for many 21st-century golf developers. Bandon Dunes was a far cry from the residential courses being built in the 1980s and ’90s in much of the U.S., where golf existed largely as a sales tool for homebuilders.
Other relatively new destinations that predated Bandon Dunes also featured aspirational golf and have proved extremely successful, often with one main course by a top designer and several other solid layouts to make a trip of it. But they are different than Bandon Dunes, where each of the five 18-hole courses has climbed high into the rankings of top modern layouts.
Bandon’s hyper concentration on the golf also was unique. Most top-tier modern American golf resorts offer a level of luxury with high-end spas, off-course activities and plenty of amenities to attract non-golfers. This was not the approach along the Oregon Coast.
Bandon Dunes was built to be relatively spartan. The original guest rooms and cabins were comfortable but not palatial. Keiser has said he wanted good food but not necessarily gourmet menus – that has evolved with the recent addition of the over-the-top Ghost Tree Grill, but for most of the resort’s 25 years the favored gathering spots have been a firepit and McKee’s Pub. The plan was golf, golf, perhaps even more golf, go find somewhere to scarf down a bundle of calories and maybe a cocktail, then crash into bed before more golf.
That kind of extreme focus proved to be a phenomenon, with course after course at Bandon Dunes shooting into the golfing public’s consciousness despite the travel difficulties in reaching the resort. The sheer volume of great golf holes on one property is staggering.
And none of it started with grandiose business plans or a branding agency. It started as a simple proof of concept.
Bandon Dunes, the original and eponymous course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Gabe Gudgel/Golfweek)
Keiser loved true links golf in the British Isles, making return trips to such layouts as Royal Dornoch in Scotland or Ballybunion in Ireland. He soaked up classic architecture in the U.S., eventually joining the ultra-exclusive and top-ranked Pine Valley Golf Club in New Jersey.
The Chicago-based businessman wanted to prove that classic architecture wasn’t dead and that Americans would embrace links golf – true links golf, with rugged and bouncy conditions on exposed oceanside courses that favor a ground game. It was a serious contrast to what was often marketed then in the U.S. as links golf, with artificially green grass, soft conditions and an emphasis on the aerial drop-and-stop game.
Before Bandon, Keiser had limited experience as a golf developer. He had built The Dunes Club in Michigan, not far from the shores of Lake Michigan on a piece of land near a home he owned. It was nine holes, private and modeled after Pine Valley on a massive sand dune. It was a success, but it didn’t entirely scratch the itch.
Keiser wanted to build a public-access course on true linksland, which is generally defined in the British Isles as the sandy, scrubby land between the ocean and other parcels that were more productive for farming. Dunes are a key ingredient, as is exposure to weather. Keiser scoured the country looking for potential sites, finding none available on the east coast or in California. He was directed to Oregon by a friend, and Keiser went so far as to buy two inland properties that turned out to not be suitable for linksy golf.
Eventually he was introduced to a large parcel north of the town of Bandon, a windy and weathered tract largely covered in invasive gorse – the flowering plant is native to Scotland and is familiar to well-traveled golfers.
Sitting on a bench high on a hill overlooking the property’s dunes and coastline, Keiser decided this was the spot. As he has mentioned numerous times, it might not have been the best land for golf on the coast, but it was more than good enough and it was for sale. Availability and a dream perfectly coincided, so Keiser started writing checks.
He didn’t know if Bandon Dunes would be a hit, or even financially sustainable. Keiser merely hoped to break even on the project. He has pointed out several times that if his concept didn’t work on the Oregon shore, he could at least farm sheep on the land.
A caddie walks at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon, where carts aren’t allowed for most players. (Gabe Gudgel/Golfweek)
It took several years to get Bandon Dunes off the ground. The first course, designed by unknown Scotsman David McLay Kidd, opened in May of 1999, soon expanding from a curiosity on the coast to a must-play for serious golfers. A second course, Pacific Dunes, opened in 2001, to be followed by Bandon Trails, Old Macdonald and the Sheep Ranch.
The five courses have introduced many American golfers to a minimalist design ethos. Instead of heavy earthmoving, as was so prominent from the 1960s though the early 2000s, each architect at Bandon Dunes laid their courses more gently on the ground. They incorporated interesting natural features instead of trying to create often overwhelming elements with a bulldozer. The focus was on fun instead of manufactured difficulty.
This wasn’t anything new – classic courses were built with minimalist qualities because heavy equipment wasn’t available during their construction a century or more ago. Bandon Dunes was more of a revival than an entirely new idea, and it proved extremely popular among a golfing public that typically doesn’t have access to American private clubs and their top-ranked classic courses.
Bandon Dunes, the original and eponymous course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
At Bandon Dunes it was golf first, then everything else, and that included development of the resort. Amenities have expanded to match increased demand. It’s now possible to enjoy a world-class steak or a sports-specific massage at Bandon Dunes, but Keiser knew that nobody was going to fly cross-country then drive three hours from Eugene to reach the resort for a plate of beef or a stretch. The golf courses and their architects were in the driver’s seat, given the best land along the water’s edge, with the clubhouses and amenities tucked inland.
Keiser’s concept has been proved. Each of the five 18-hole courses resides inside the top 20 in Golfweek’s Best ranking of modern U.S. courses. Prime tee times sell out well in advance. Golfers from around the world travel to experience firm and bouncy golf on the cliffs above the Pacific Ocean. The resort has continued to expand.
Plenty of other developers have attempted to follow the Bandon model, some with more success than others in the public-access realm. Just in Oregon, Silvies Valley Ranch on the eastern side of the state has built a fun reversible course as a stated effort to follow Bandon Dunes in proving that tourism is possible in such a hard-to-reach area. Across the U.S., developers have built courses on sandy sites: Streamsong in Florida, Gamble Sands in Washington, Sand Valley in Wisconsin (built by Keiser’s sons, Chris and Michael). Cabot built two courses in Nova Scotia with investment by Keiser, who also helped get Barnbougle off the ground in far-off Tasmania in Australia. All the way to New Zealand, developers have followed the Bandon model of golf first. Plenty of examples are available coast to coast and around the world, and many of them will openly reference Keiser as an inspiration.
Bandon Dunes also is part of a collective called Dream Golf, a partnership with Sand Valley and the in-development Rodeo Dunes in Colorado, where multiple courses are planned. The resort’s story is far from finished.
Millions of words have been written about Bandon Dunes over the past 25 years. There’s no need to rewrite them here in celebration of the resort’s anniversary – if you want to know more, a great place to start would be Keiser’s most recent book, “The Nature of the Game: Links Golf at Bandon Dunes and Far Beyond.”
And instead of this author opting to try to put all things Bandon Dunes into even more words, we’ll let you hear directly from the people who have lived it. Linked to this story are many observations and recollections from 10 people with vast Bandon experience, all based on fresh interviews (each has been edited for length and clarity). From Keiser to Kidd, from greeter to golf pro, we hope you enjoy their thoughts as Bandon Dunes’ 25th anniversary approaches.
Courses at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
Bandon Dunes, the original and eponymous course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
Bandon Dunes Opened: 1999
Designer: David McLay Kidd
Golfweek’s Best ranking: No. 10 modern course and No. 7 resort course in the U.S.
Pacific Dunes at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
Pacific Dunes Opened: 2001
Designer: Tom Doak
Golfweek’s Best ranking: No. 2 modern course and No. 2 resort course in the U.S.
Bandon Trails at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
Bandon Trails Opened: 2005
Designers: Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw
Golfweek’s Best ranking: Tied for No. 11 modern course and No. 6 resort course in the U.S.
Old Macdonald at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
Old Macdonald Opened: 2010
Designers: Tom Doak and Jim Urbina
Golfweek’s Best ranking: No. 7 modern course and tied for No. 4 resort course in the U.S.
The Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
Sheep Ranch Opened: 2020
Designers: Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw
Golfweek’s Best ranking: Tied for No. 19 modern course and tied for No. 11 resort course in the U.S.
Other amenities at Bandon Dunes
Bandon Preserve at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes)
Bandon Preserve: This 13-hole par-3 course was designed by Coore and Crenshaw and opened in 2012. The Preserve kicked off a trend of premium par-3 courses at resorts around the world.
Shorty’s: The newest par-3 course at the resort, this 19-hole layout was designed by Rod Whitman, Dave Axland and Keith Cutten. It opens in May.
Charlotte’s: Formerly known as Shorty’s, this nine-hole par-3 layout is part of the practice facility. It has been renamed for the wife of Shorty Dow, the former caretaker of the property.
Punchbowl: An homage to the Himalayas Putting Course at St. Andrews, this 100,000-square-foot putting course near the Pacific Dunes clubhouse was opened in 2014 with a design by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina.
The secret sauce at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort? “If you have sand dunes on the ocean, you probably have a winner.”
(Editor’s note: Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is celebrating its 25th anniversary and Golfweek Travel EditorJason Luskput together a comprehensive package for the occasion, complete with Q&As of pivotal people in and around the operation. To see the entire package of stories, click here.)
BANDON, Ore. – Mike Keiser wanted to prove a point: Links golf is better than what many of the courses in the United States offered near the turn of the century, and enough American players would travel to play great golf.
The greeting-card-magnate-turned-golf-developer nailed it on both points with Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, which in May celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Keep in mind, in the 1980s and ’90s most American golf courses were being built to accommodate shots that flied high through clear skies, rewarding players who possessed enough power to make a ball spin and stop on often-elevated greens. Difficulty was frequently considered the hallmark of great courses, many of which were built with tour players in mind instead of the folks Keiser came to describe as retail golfers.
The Chicago resident flipped that script by building courses that favored the ground game in strong winds, much as he experienced on frequent trips to the British Isles. But it certainly wasn’t a sure thing when he pulled the trigger on Bandon Dunes, which opened in 1999. Would American golfers pay hundreds of dollars to play a course that required travel to the remote Oregon coast? He already had built the highly acclaimed, nine-hole Dunes Club in Michigan, but how big a risk was he willing to take out west?
Let’s let Keiser – known as an adept listener and studier of his customers – do the talking.
The coastal Oregon site of Bandon Dunes before it was developed into a golf resort (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
What made you think it was possible to build a true modern links course in the U.S.?
It started as just sort of theoretical statement. If we could find a site that was, let’s say, as good as Royal Dornoch (in northern Scotland), it might work as sort of the business case for building a links course.
And serendipitously, (Oregon-based Realtor) Annie Hunter called from out of the blue to let me know this site was available. And she said, “I don’t know anything about golf courses, but this is right on the ocean, 1,200 acres on the ocean with big sand dunes covered in gorse – I don’t know if it’s any good or not.” And that sounded pretty magical to me.
So I rushed out there and said, from the vantage point you can still see out there (on a hillside at Bandon Trails overlooking the coast), this looks like an awfully good site. And I was able to buy it for half the asking price. Talk about more serendipity. The previous owners were so eager to unload it because it had been for sale for over four years.
What was your thought process in looking at that piece of land to do something that nobody in the States had pulled off up to that point, building such a remote public course focused on links golf?
I thought I could break even. That was my positive thing. If I built something like Dornoch, it might break even. And I basically said, “Oh what the heck, you only go around once, let’s try it.”
Mike Keiser at Bandon Dunes in the early days (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
Are you surprised today at how it all turned out after taking such a risk on the first course?
Because I was able to sell the greeting card company (Recycled Paper Greetings, which he had founded in 1971 with college roommate Phil Friedmann) for quite a bit of money, I had the money to lose on one golf course. And I knew the odds were that I’d be lucky to break even, so to take X amount of dollars and build a golf course in Bandon, Oregon, was a dicey thing. But I could afford to lose, which is why I went ahead for the fun of it, to build it.
And we were astonished, like everyone else, that it did not just break even with 10,000 rounds the first year, but that we had 24,000 rounds that year. That was amazing. And that gave me a green light to build Pacific Dunes, the second course. I say that one plus one equals three, and that really changed things.
What had you learned in building the Dunes Club with architect Dick Nugent? Before Bandon, you built that in Michigan on a site where you and your sons used to play wilderness golf and turned it into something really special in its own right.
If you visit there, you will see one huge sand dune. … I was playing a lot at Pine Valley at that time of my life, and the Dunes’ site reminded me of Pine Valley, which is why I said, “Let’s build something, an homage to Pine Valley, here near Chicago” so we don’t have to go all the way to Philadelphia every time we want to play this magnificent sand dune golf course which is Pine Valley.
It was that love for sand dunes that led you to Bandon?
I’d say the one thing I learned is that if you have sand dunes on the ocean, you probably have a winner. Hello, Shinnecock Hills. Hello, National Golf Links. Hello, Pebble Beach. Hello, Cypress Point. (All are top-rated classic courses, either in New York or California.)
Had you looked for sand dunes all around the country before going to Oregon?
I looked on the East Coast and couldn’t find anything. I mean zero, and I was going to give up. A friend of mine, Howard McKee (an architect and land planner), said, “Why don’t you look in Oregon? It’s got a gorgeous coast.” I knew nothing about Oregon, so reluctantly I gave in and said okay.
I had went out and looked at Northern California, where there was nothing. I should have looked further north, but I hadn’t gotten there yet when Annie Hunter called and saved me the time.
Sand has become a secret sauce for you in all of your developments, whether it be with your boys at Sand Valley or wherever. Even all the way to Barnbougle in Tasmania.
You know, Barnbougle is more remote than Bandon. But Tom Doak and I were able to convince Richard Sattler (the land’s owner and a farmer) that rather than farming sheep and cattle, he should farm golfers.
I remember standing in one of Richard’s pastures, and he spent most of the day, every day, rounding up his herds and moving them from pasture to pasture. And I said, “Richard, you don’t know anything about golf, but golf is like you and I standing here in a pasture, and every 10 minutes, four people will come up to you and ask to pay $200 each to play golf in your pasture.” He said that sounds pretty good. (Barnbougle opened in 2004 with investment from Keiser and has expanded to two full-18 courses and a short course. Both its courses rank among the top 30 international courses outside the U.S.)
How did you structure Bandon Dunes commercially to allow it to grow and flourish this way?
We priced it at half of Pebble Beach. That’s our pricing mantra: Whatever Pebble Beach is, we will be half, so it’s fair pricing.
You could do it right now if you had money. You could go to Oregon and find two or three coastal sites. But they would probably be owned by federal or state government, so you couldn’t develop it. But at least you could say, wow, look at that.
One day an Oregon governor will say, “There’s the Alabama golf trail (the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail). Why don’t we have the Oregon Trail?” Wouldn’t that be something for the state to run or to do with some kind of lease option to where a developer could come in and build on a hundred acres in a partnership? It won’t happen with such an anti-development ethos in Oregon. … The Oregon Trail would be hugely successful for golf and financially, but I don’t think it’ll happen in my lifetime.
How often are you asked for advice from other developers, and what do you tell them?
I’m not asked that often, because they’re usually the competition. But if they were to ask, I’d say sand dunes and ocean are what you’re looking for. The Bandon formula of sand plus ocean equals winner.
But sand without the ocean can be OK, it turns out. Look at Sand Valley (in Wisconsin, a popular resort that soon will have four full-size courses and that has been developed by Keiser’s sons, Michael and Chris). It’s a luxury to have the ocean. But it’s not essential; that’s what we learned.
One day someone’s going to go to Africa, which has great sites for golf, and build. Maybe on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia – it’s just gorgeous for golf and there are beautiful dunes.
Twenty percent of the world is sand. Isn’t that interesting? I once thought that sand was rare, but 20 percent of the earth’s land surface is sand. It’s everywhere.
What’s it like for you now to see versions of Bandon Dunes working in other places, be it Canada or New Zealand or Australia?
I love it. I can’t keep up with them all.
You know, I’m public and proud of it. That’s always been my thing. Even though Ballybunion and Dornoch have memberships, they’re basically open to the public. So I’ve always thought if you build something pretty special, you want the public to play it.
A lot of new private courses have been built in recent years on sand.
I don’t hate them for it. They’re just not as meaningful as a public course would have been.
I was a retail golfer well before I became a Pine Valley member. So before I was a member, I felt that most of the best courses in America, in particular, were private. And that’s still pretty much true. So I was a big public golf guy, and I couldn’t play them. And it turns out this was noticed by the retail golfers of the world, and certainly of the United States, because they felt this desire to play great courses.
Bandon Dunes developer Mike Keiser (second from right) with Josh Lesnik (left), the first general manager when the resort opened in 1999, and Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
course architects Tom Doak, Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw and David McLay Kidd (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
What made you decide to take such a risk with using David McLay Kidd as your first architect?
His father, Jimmy. If it had been just David, I would have said no, I can’t give it to you, you’re too inexperienced for me to take a flier given my location. I would have chosen Tom Doak.
But Jimmy Kidd had been in golf his entire life. He was the superintendent at Gleneagles and played golf at Machrihanish. So I felt it was in their blood and that Jimmy had taught David well. And if I found out that David wasn’t very good, I’d fire him. David would tell you the same thing.
It was great fun watching David and Jimmy work together. Jimmy was dead set that David was going to have a success there, so it was sort of a one plus one equals three again. With Jimmy and David together, I had the benefit of both points of view. And as the project went on, David took more and more ownership of it.
Then you followed up behind David with Tom Doak, then hired Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. All of those guys have become famous as designers, but 25 years ago they didn’t have their own fan clubs. What’s it been like to watch the architects develop over the years?
Well, I’ve always been a minimalist, as they have on their own. So we’ve all been minimalist, feeling that golf had become too difficult and too manufactured. We just wanted to build links courses in a minimalist way, and lo and behold, that’s what they did. And it turns out that American golfers love minimalist golf design.
Mike Keiser, right, with Jim Urbina and Tom Doak during construction of the Punchbowl (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
How would you describe minimalism? What drives the concept for you, the appeal of it?
We’re looking for designs that evolve from nature. Tom Doak is probably the most articulate on that topic and would probably give you paragraph after paragraph after paragraph.
Natural golf courses are visually more interesting than manufactured courses. For those of us who would go play links in Scotland and Ireland, our favorite courses were all, you know, very minimalist. Look at the Old Course (at St. Andrews). Talk about minimalist – you know they just they just played on the land they had. They didn’t make it with bulldozers. I’d say the same about Ballybunion and Dornoch and any other of the links courses over there, made not by bulldozers but by men with shovels.
There is still shaping and routing that goes into minimalist designs. How much would you say the artistry of your architects has been a driving force at Bandon Dunes?
I give them huge thanks. The first thing is, their routings are fabulous. And I won’t single any of them out, because each of them are fabulous. And their green sites are fabulous. Those are two things that I look for.
At Bandon Dunes, the non-golf amenities are set well back from the coast. How did you come to your decision to allow your architects to use the best land along the coast for their routings, instead of trying to put hotels or clubhouses along the shoreline?
Because I was not a typical developer. Having done The Dunes Club, which is golf only, I said that I want to build another golf course. I didn’t say I want to build a golf resort. So I wanted to use the best land for the golf course. I never thought we’d get to building a whole resort.
Mike Keiser at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
What’s it like for you as a father to watch your boys follow you into the business and have such success at Sand Valley and now expanding beyond Wisconsin?
They’ve been to Scotland and Ireland, and they have played the great links courses. Therefore they almost naturally understand links or minimalist golf. That’s what I’m proudest of, that they don’t stray from that model. They’ll say, look at Dornoch or Ballybunion, these are the types of courses we want to build and play on.
Most developers, they say location, location, location. And they mean close to population centers, because that’s who’s going to use it. And I’ve sort of taken the opposite point of view that if it’s remote and wild and natural, it’s better.
Is there anything else you’d like to tell readers about your thoughts on looking back at 25 years at Bandon Dunes?
My biggest one is to thank everyone for appreciating links golf in America. It was remarkable how well received Bandon Dunes was. Given the lack of experience of true links golf in America for the retail golfer, it’s an amazing story.
Columnist Eamon Lynch dreams of Bandon Dunes, but there’s one hole that gives him nightmares.
(Editor’s note: Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is celebrating its 25th anniversary and Golfweek Travel EditorJason Luskput together a comprehensive package for the occasion, complete with Q&As of pivotal people in and around the operation. To see the entire package of stories, click here.)
The quality of sleep enjoyed by a tortured golfer is inversely proportional to the number of swing thoughts agitating the mind. Thus, on most nights my attempts at finding rest involve not counting sheep but playing golf in my mind’s eye. Almost always, those rounds are at Bandon Dunes.
It’s been over 20 years since I first visited Mike Keiser’s refuge on the Oregon coast, and the more than 100 rounds I’ve played there are among my fondest memories. Like the Solstice in 2012, four rounds in one day. The first ball was airborne (barely) at 5:35 a.m., the last putt dropped at 8:10 p.m., the first cocktail moments later. Or the time I watched with unsporting glee as a friend needed 51 putts on Old Macdonald (he was a perfect 33 through 11 until he unexpectedly two-putted the 12th). Or when I played a three-club tournament on the same course and chose my weapons badly: putter, hybrid, 7-iron. On the seventh hole, I tried the putter backward and left-handed to use the flange for a steep bunker shot. It worked, then I three-jacked on the green when using it conventionally.
But Bandon Dunes is also where apathy over swing dysfunction became apparent. Maybe a decade back, I was there with Brandel Chamblee, so already the trip was suboptimal. We were playing Bandon Trails, the Bill Coore-Ben Crenshaw design that features many holes I love and one I loathe. We reached the 14th, a 325-yarder where caddies will tell you they count many more 6s than 4s.
I’ve railed against the hole since it opened in 2005. Once, I was headed to Trails with a course architecture writer when he handed me his phone, mid-call. “Eamon, this is Bill Coore,” came a gentle drawl. “I just want to remind you, again, that No. 14 was Ben’s idea.”
On the tee with Chamblee, I sniped one left into the woods, a trend established over the previous 13 holes. Dejected, I handed the driver back to my longtime, long-suffering caddie, Shanks. “That’s my last swing,” I said.
“No, it isn’t!” Chamblee said, laughing.
“Watch me,” I replied.
I spent the remainder of the trip beating balls on the range and saw more of the milkshake lady at the Dairy Queen downtown than I did of Chamblee (so it wasn’t all bad).
It was an ominous sign of my eventual descent to total range rat, happy to hit balls all day as long as I didn’t have to go find them. Which explains why I haven’t been back to Bandon Dunes in eight years.
No. 16 at Bandon Dunes, which Eamon Lynch considers among his favorite holes on the planet (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
Yet still I lie a couple thousand miles east with photographic recall of holes that gave me fits (the aforementioned 14th at Trails, the fifth at Bandon Dunes) and those I rank among my favorites on the planet (the fourth at Pacific Dunes, the fifth at Trails, the 16th at Bandon Dunes). I don’t dream of the Sheep Ranch though. I only saw that property when one group a day would be dropped off to devise their own layout from 13 green complexes scattered on a bluff north of the resort, years before it became the latest acclaimed course in the portfolio.
Each fitful night of near-sleep brings a reminder of what I’ve lost by not playing much golf anymore, hence a recent desire to get back into the swing, as it were. Every few months for almost eight years, I’ve gotten a text from my buddy Michael Chupka, who works at Bandon. “Ready to come back yet?” he asks, like a patient counselor.
One of these days I’m going to answer in the affirmative. If only to see if Bill and Ben have done anything yet to redeem that damned hole.
A young Scottish designer got the break of a lifetime at Bandon Dunes 25 years ago. It wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t clean.
(Editor’s note: Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is celebrating its 25th anniversary and Golfweek Travel EditorJason Luskput together a comprehensive package for the occasion, complete with Q&As of pivotal people in and around the operation. To see the entire package of stories, click here.)
BANDON, Ore. – David McLay Kidd got the break of a lifetime.
A mid-20s Scotsman in the 1990s, he had been around golf all his life, learning early from his golf superintendent father, Jimmy. He also worked as an in-house architect for a small English golf firm before moving to a larger group where he learned about the development process.
But he had never designed an entire golf course as a solo effort.
It wasn’t until Kidd somehow caught the eye of then-novice developer Mike Keiser in the mid-1990s, and after years of site visits and discussions and small-town hamburgers, that he landed the job to design the first course at a new destination, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, on the remote shores of southwestern Oregon.
Named Bandon Dunes along with the resort, the first course kicked off a career in which Kidd has designed more than 20 courses around the world, several of them earning high praise from various course rankings including Golfweek’s Best.
One of the game’s best storytellers, Kidd takes a look back at how it all came together as Bandon Dunes’ 25th anniversary approaches.
David McLay Kidd and Bandon Dunes developer Mike Keiser during construction of the first course at the Oregon resort (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
What is your memory from the first time you saw Bandon Dunes?
It was July 1994, and I was with my father (Jimmy), who was a longtime golf course superintendent in Scotland. We were invited by Mike Keiser to go look at the land and come up with a concept for 36 holes. My dad and I spent a week there, and then at the end of the week, Mike flew in with Steve Lesnik, the founder of KemperSports, and (land planner and architect) Howard McKee and a few others.
And my dad and I, but probably mostly me, presented our ideas for 36 holes at what at that time didn’t even have a name, just the land north of Bandon the town.
I had gone around with (caretaker) Shorty Dow, who lived on the land. I can remember it like it was yesterday. Initially, Mike was thinking of building down below what is No. 16 on Bandon Dunes, below 17. That was where Mike was really thinking of, because that reminded him the most of, you know, an Irish links. And I remember wandering through that land (along the beach beneath the cliff), and it’s filled with driftwood. And of course that rang giant alarm bells with me. When there’s a storm there, the sea water comes right up in there. When I did meet Mike at the end of the week, I said to him, “You know, there’s giant stumps and driftwood back in there for quite a ways. It might not be the best idea to build out there.”
What did you think of the land that you did get to work on, up on the top of the shelf above the cliffs?
Well, you couldn’t see any of it. It was all under gorse. The whole entire thing, every last bit, was under gorse. So all you could really do was try and imagine what was there.
But we knew, looking at the surroundings and the few pieces of the trails that went through there – a bunch of people had been riding four-wheelers and motorbikes through it – that it was all sand. I sort of assumed that underneath the gorse there were some cool shapes, but you really couldn’t tell, not the very first time.
You were a young architect back then, and you were working for a man who was inexperienced in building a resort. Was there any apprehension in taking on the project, or was it all excitement to get a chance like that?
It didn’t happen like that. I didn’t know shit, and neither did Mike really, you know. I don’t know if anybody had any expectations.
From my point of view, I didn’t know that Mike was talking to a bunch of other people (as architects). From Mike’s point of view, I think he had this wild idea that he hoped he wouldn’t lose his shirt on – if the thing broke even, that was the best he could hope for.
One of the things I’ve said so many times in the 25 years since Bandon opened, when people have asked what was it like working on Bandon Dunes, it’s so hard to explain. But it wasn’t Bandon Dunes then. It wasn’t anything. It was a gorse-covered piece of maybe sand dunes on the edge of nowhere.
Bandon Dunes, the original and eponymous course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort)
So how did it go when you took the job? What were your thoughts on what you could pull off out there?
You know, that’s a good question that doesn’t have a great answer.
I don’t think I ever really got the job. Mike just kept kicking the tires with me for like two years, maybe more, because I first saw the site in ’94. I guess the big story was during the week I was there, before I met Mike, I realized that there was real potential that you could really build something super cool.
Shorty kept asking me for a business card, and I kept wondering why he needed it. Why would a guy living in the woods in southwestern coastal Oregon be so desperate for my business card? It occurred to me that he was collecting them, so I asked him, can you show me the other business cards you have? Sure enough, he brought out this stack of business cards. And the business cards made it blatantly obvious that Mike Keiser had his pick of any architect he wanted. And why in the hell would he hire a 26-year-old Scotsman with no resume?
On the one side, I was super enthusiastic about what could be built. And then reality told me that I was not going to be the one to get to build it.
Based on that hard fact, I decided that when I met with Mike Keiser, I would absolutely tell him the absolute truth. I wouldn’t try and sugarcoat anything. I would tell him as a proud Scot from the Home of Golf the thing no American golf developer had heard: If you really want to copy the great links courses of the British Isles, you can’t sit your fat ass on a golf cart.
I didn’t stop there. You can’t build the clubhouse out on the beach. You can’t drag a road out there. You can’t put a dumpster out there. You can’t build bent grass greens and homes and plantings and all the shit I could see at that point back in the ’90s in America with golf course after golf course that kept saying they were taking inspiration from the classics. And then I would look at them and go, this doesn’t look anything like a golf course I would recognize in the British Isles.
And so I pointed out to Mike what it would really take to build a golf course that did fully embrace the golf courses of the British Isles, particularly the Scottish and Irish links courses. And Mike’s cohort that he had with him all rolled their eyes or literally laughed out loud. But Mike didn’t. Mike didn’t laugh. He actually listened.
At the end of that week, I figured, yes, you could build something awesome out there. Is that the guy that will actually do it, or will he acquiesce to what they all seem to think American golfers want, which is this sanitized, contrived version of what I know to be golf in Scotland?
Either way, I’m not going to be the one to do it. It ain’t gonna be me because I’m 26, the son of a greenskeeper with no resume.
How long was it before you heard back that you landed the job?
I never did. That’s not how it happened.
What happened was, Mike called me back a few months later and said, “You’re kind of a pretty ballsy kid. You said a lot of stuff that resonated with me, and why don’t you come out again and take a little more time to see the land and clear some pieces. What would be the next step? What would your next ideas be?”
At that point? I thought, holy shit. Just maybe, just maybe. But I didn’t know if Mike was doing that with a dozen people or two people. I mean, I didn’t know that I was the only one. For all I knew, he was dating every cute girl in town.
So I said, hell yes. And I went back out there and spent another week or two weeks. I can’t remember – I made numerous trips over many years. And as we made these trips one after another, we’d do a little more clearing and staking and coming up with different layouts. And Mike would come with his friends, and they’d walk it. And then Howard McKee and Bruce Johnson were tasked with getting the permits. So I would be helping them, trying to describe what this golf course would look like, how it would be built and how we would respond to the environment it was in and getting them the information they needed for the permits.
And it was really not until about April of ’97 that Mike said to me, “OK, why don’t you come out here and shape a couple of things and let me look at them? And I’ll see if I like it.” And so even then, three years later, I still wasn’t hired. He still hadn’t said, okay, you’re going to be the guy.
So in ’97, I went out there in the spring and I shaped the first green and the 17th green with Jim Haley. And Mike flew out with Dick Youngscap (who developed Sand Hills in Nebraska, rated the No. 1 modern course in the U.S.). Mike asked Dick for his opinion, and Dick looked at what I shaped on the first green and the 17th green with Jim Haley and he said, “I think it’s great.”
And that was really the tipping point. It was only then that Mike was like, “OK, we have all the permits. I own all the land. I can write the check. Why don’t we start construction this fall?” We built the course that fall and the spring of 1998, and the course opened in ’99.
Architect David McLay Kidd (Courtesy of Terras da Comporta/James Hogg)
How exciting was that for you, after three years of doing various levels of work on it, to finally land the job?
I was getting to work on a cool piece of land in the United States. For me, it was the biggest thing in my entire career at that point. I was in my late 20s. It was my moment, everything and more I’d ever possibly hoped for.
However, it wasn’t on anybody else’s radar. Nobody else gave a flying you know what. … It was unknown. We finished the course, and only then was there some attention paid to it.
So, there was the good and the bad, and the bad was going first (as the builder of the first course at Bandon). Who knows what I could have done if I’d have gone second. But the good thing was, there was no expectation.
When I built Bandon, Tom Doak came in, and he had to trump what I’d already done (as Doak built Pacific Dunes, the second course at the resort that opened in 2001). And most people thought what I’d done was pretty darn good. So Tom had high expectations put on his shoulders. I had zero. Nobody had any expectations. They didn’t know what Bandon was, they didn’t know who Mike Keiser was and they sure as hell didn’t know who I was. And so we built the first course with zero eyes on us. Nobody cared. We were out there for 80 hours a week the eight or nine months it took to build. And the only person that cared was Mike. He would fly in every few weeks and wander around.
Looking back, we’d be going to eat burgers at night, and he’d say what he liked and what he didn’t like, and we’d adjust. And it was really simple. It wasn’t complicated at all. Now it’s a totally different beast – if Mike even thinks about doing something, especially at Bandon, the golf world is intensely curious.
How would you describe the need for ground game to a regular American golfer who doesn’t understand a links? And why was it so important for Bandon to have the ball roll?
I knew intuitively from my birth that golf is a game played through the air and across the ground. It’s not just an aerial game. It just blew my mind when I came to America and it became obvious to me that the game went from three dimensions where I came from, to two dimensions here. Who in the hell wants to play two-dimensional anything?
It didn’t cross my mind when I was building Bandon to build it any other way. I mean, this is what golf is. The ball goes through the air and then it lands, then it does something. It bounces, then it rolls, and then it loses pace and changes direction. And a whole bunch of things happen. It never would have occurred to me to build it any other way.
You must look back at Bandon as the simplest, most fun of times to just go out and build the coolest thing you could think of.
Jim Haley was working as the main shaper on the project, and we were building in the winter. And it doesn’t get light until 8 o’clock, and it gets dark at 4 o’clock. So there is not much daylight. And the weather was not great, sometimes pissing rain, sometimes howling gales, sometimes both together.
uickly into the job, Jim says to me, “I’ve got to leave at lunchtime today.” I’m like, “What? What the hell? We’re desperately trying to get this thing done, and there’s another storm coming.”
And he goes, “I haven’t done laundry in like two weeks, and I’ve got no laundry left.” I was like, “I tell you what I’ll do. I can’t operate the equipment. I’m not driving a bulldozer. You bring your laundry in every Wednesday, and in the afternoon I’ll run down to the coin-operated laundry and I’ll do both of our laundries, because I need to do mine, too.”
Can you imagine that today? I live in a different world. It was super simple to the point I spent my Wednesday afternoons in the coin-operated laundry in Bandon doing mine and the elite shaper’s skivvies.
