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Bandon Dunes is stunning.  I've never been there.  My dad says it's his favorite course setup.  Looks great on television.
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Bandon Dunes is stunning.  I've never been there.  My dad says it's his favorite course setup.  Looks great on television.

  Some stunning holes, and Kidd has gone in and fixed the several that needed fixing.  The complaints, which are few, are over the routing, a lot of weird long walks.  Trails, a Coore/Crenshaw design, is brilliantly routed and has six holes I can picture vividly---two great part threes, that famously wicked drivable par four, and its terrific 15th and 18th--despite playing there just once.  And it says a lot for that course even to be mentioned with the others, considering that Trails never gets within half a mile of the ocean.

I may be partial to it, a little, because my middle son did a lot of the shaping.  Golf Course Atlas gave him major praise for it.

Old MacDonald always seems contrived to me, but perhaps because I have known  all along what Urbana was trying to do, and because he's always seemed two steps too funky for me.  But the course makes a strong contrast to the other courses, just as Trails makes to the two Dunes courses.  Five similar, verging on identical, courses would not be very interesting.  

To me, the stunner of Bandon stunners is The Sheep Ranch.  It's brilliantly conceived; Coore somehow figured out how to optimimize the shots to, and views of, of the ocean, two of them to infinity greens.  



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[Hulk01]

Bandon Dunes is stunning.  I've never been there.  My dad says it's his favorite course setup.  Looks great on television.
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Bandon Dunes is stunning.  I've never been there.  My dad says it's his favorite course setup.  Looks great on television.

  Some stunning holes, and Kidd has gone in and fixed the several that needed fixing.  The complaints, which are few, are over the routing, a lot of weird long walks.  Trails, a Coore/Crenshaw design, is brilliantly routed and has six holes I can picture vividly---two great part threes, that famously wicked drivable par four, and its terrific 15th and 18th--despite playing there just once.  And it says a lot for that course even to be mentioned with the others, considering that Trails never gets within half a mile of the ocean.

I may be partial to it, a little, because my middle son did a lot of the shaping.  Golf Course Atlas gave him major praise for it.

Old MacDonald always seems contrived to me, but perhaps because I have known  all along what Urbana was trying to do, and because he's always seemed two steps too funky for me.  But the course makes a strong contrast to the other courses, just as Trails makes to the two Dunes courses.  Five similar, verging on identical, courses would not be very interesting.  

To me, the stunner of Bandon stunners is The Sheep Ranch.  It's brilliantly conceived; Coore somehow figured out how to optimimize the shots to, and views of, of the ocean, two of them to infinity greens.  



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