Pacific Northwest & Dunes

Bandon Dunes: Pacific Trails and Fescue Dreams on the Oregon Coast

David McLay Kidd’s 1999 breakthrough proved that minimalist, walking-only linksland on remote American shores could redefine modern golf culture.

Bandon Dunes: Pacific Trails and Fescue Dreams on the Oregon Coast
Photo courtesy of The Golf Edits Field Archives • Championship Links Series

When Mike Keiser purchased a swath of coastal gorse and sand dunes south of Coos Bay, Oregon, the golf industry was skeptical. Why would American golfers travel to an isolated, wind-lashed Pacific coastline to walk 36 holes in the rain? Twenty-seven years later, Bandon Dunes is the undisputed spiritual home of modern American walking golf.

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