Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes | Stephen Goodwin | It's About the Golf & Ocean & Dream &...

Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes | Stephen Goodwin | Complete the Bandon experience

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	Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes Stephen Goodwin Algonquin Books, 2006 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's About the Golf & Ocean & Dream & Architects

This is recount of passion for golf, from perspective of a successful greeting card company owner who wants to and does build a classical Scottish style course in America.

Starting in New Buffalo, Michigan, he through his associates finds just the landscape available in Bandon, Oregon. Then secures three architects to do three eventual courses, each of which has in common a shared approach to course design which is minimalist and takes what the land gives. Neat feature of this chronicle is that author plays each of the courses with architect and some of construction staff, so even if one hasn't played this yet, feel somewhat what it would be like. So makes one plotting to take trip west to check this out.

Result is three rising courses on places to play lists. Truly us golfers can appreciate his approach, away with frills and it's all about the golf, even in the accomodations.

How neat is it the approach that Keiser developed on his Dunes Golf in Michigan that there is set of tees with no deisgnation, and the golfer with the honors chooses the teebox, kind of golfing version of HORSE.

Keiser is certainly golfer's course owner who wants the game to be the dominant factor, not a resort catering to all wishes, just golf dominated.

Great read. Those who enjoyed this might also enjoy one of my favorites: "Driving the Green" and "Bury Me in a Pot Bunker."

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Complete the Bandon experience

When I saw this book on the shelf, I knew I wanted to read it and I was not disappointed!

After three fantastic trips to the Bandon Dunes resort, this book completes the journey.

I was very impressed with the courses on each trip and after reading this book I will even enjoy the next trip on a new level.

The book is a very easy read, actually kind of hard to put it down. I highly recommend the book to anyone that has played the courses, that is planning a trip and to anyone that wishes that they could play the Bandon Dunes courses.

I only wish that the book would have included as much information about the new Bandon Trails course as it did on Bandon Dunes and Pacific Dunes.

Thanks to Mike Keizer for creating the Bandon Dunes experince.
(I hope course number four is in our future.)

Read the book and play the courses....you will not regret either one!

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Makes you want to go to Oregon

I am invited on a golf trip to Bandon Dunes later on this year, and my host sent me a copy of the book, with the thought that I might like to know something about the place. I took it on a weekend trip, with the thought that I might at least skim through it. I read the first few pages, and was hooked, read the rest over 2 days.
I was fascinated learning about what went on in the planning and building of the courses, the thought process of the people involved, the description of other courses, golf course architecture styles, all things that I had never thought about before. It is well written, and holds your interest well.
You probably need to be a golfer to really enjoy the book, but if you are a golfer, you will enjoy it. The author helped me realize that, as a golfer, I shouldn't be playing a course because of the architect, or where it is, or how it looks, but should be playing it because it makes me play golf, not just hit a ball around a series of 18 holes. You need to enjoy the journey, not just look forward to the score at the end. I will never look at a golf hole the same way again. I will examine it to try to determine the ways that the architect meant for the hole to be played, and there is usually more than one. A good architect designs the golf course to challenge both low and high handicap golfers.
I note that the Publishers Weekly review complained that the author didn't discuss the fact that golf courses wreak havoc with the land. I am sure that some do, but the people that purchased, designed and built Bandon Dunes obviously love the land. Without the courses and the resort, almost no one would ever see this section of the southern Oregon coast. Now, because of the resort, visitors get to experience the beauty and majesty of the area.

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