All of the programs at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, defined

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, which is celebrating its 25-year anniversary this month, has exploded to 5 18-hole programs, two quick programs — one which’s formally opening proper now — and a rollicking placing course.

Right here’s a look at Bandon Dunes 25 years later — which appeared within the newest version of GOLF journal — however scroll under to get a fast snapshot of the programs and what makes every distinctive.

BANDON DUNES

David McLay Kidd, 1999; par 72 / 6,732 yds

The unique course at Bandon stays its anchor, its first gap lighting out from behind the principle clubhouse on an exhilarating path, up into the dunes then down towards the coast. With huge touchdown areas and huge, mellowly contoured greens, McLay Kidd’s design could be forgiving, but it surely has additionally held as much as elite USGA competitions.

PACIFIC DUNES

Tom Doak, 2001; par 71 / 6,633 yds

When it opened in 2001, this unconventional Doak design, with a again 9 that begins with consecutive par 3s, reworked its architect from a cult darling right into a modern minimalist star. It additionally proved Keiser’s mantra — “One course is a curiosity, two programs is a vacation spot” — true, offering the resort with a one-two punch that magnified its presence on the map.

BANDON TRAILS

Invoice Coore / Ben Crenshaw, 2005; par 71 / 6,788 yds

The one 18-hole course on the resort that doesn’t kiss the ocean, this Coore-Crenshaw design makes up for its lack of shoreline with a fascinating tour of its inland terrain. From dunes to pines to meadows, the backdrops are as diverse and intriguing because the shot-making calls for, nowhere greater than on the par-4 14th, one among Bandon’s most compelling — and polarizing — holes.

OLD MACDONALD

Tom Doak / Jim Urbina, 2010; par 71 / 6,944 yds

A tribute in each title and kind, this Doak-Urbina collaboration attracts on a portfolio of template holes made well-known on this nation by the Golden Age large Charles Blair Macdonald. The Redan. The Lengthy. The Quick. The Eden. There’s even a hat tip to the Highway Gap at St. Andrews on a course that performs, in true hyperlinks style, on agency, quick fescue turf.

SHEEP RANCH

Invoice Coore / Ben Crenshaw, 2020; par 72 / 6,636 yds

The smallest 18-hole course on the resort additionally options the longest stretch of shoreline, roughly a mile of seaside bluffs. On this web site, which can be the windiest on the property and, partly for that purpose, has no sand bunkers, Invoice Coore’s ingenious routings squeeze each drama from the ocean, bringing it into play on a number of tees pictures and into view on all 18.

BANDON PRESERVE

Invoice Coore / Ben Crenshaw, 2012; par 3 / 1,609 yds

Like many developments within the trendy recreation, the short-course craze traces again to Bandon. Inbuilt 2012, this 13-hole par-3 design by Coore and Crenshaw captures the great thing about the property in miniature, with no shot longer than 150 yards and ground-game choices that embrace the native customized of enjoying the ultimate gap with solely putter.

THE PUNCHBOWL

Tom Doak / Jim Urbina, 2014; 18-hole placing course

Drive for present, putt free of charge. There isn’t a cost to play this 100,000-square-foot nod to the Himalayas placing course at St. Andrews, located to the left of the primary tee at Pacific Dunes. Designed by Doak and Urbina and open from daybreak to nightfall, it’s full of beguiling humps and hollows, and its routing by no means will get previous as a result of the workers alters it every single day.

SHORTY’S

Dave Axland, Keith Cutten, Rod Whitman, 2024; par 3 / 1,997 yds

On a web site heaving with tall, tightly clustered dunes, Whitman, Axland and Cutten first drafted a 12-hole course, solely to comprehend the canvas inspired extra. Their last design stitched 19 holes, starting from 60 to 160 yards, into the folds. With the course’s arrival, the unique Shorty’s, a pitch-and-putt adjoining to the resort’s apply facility, has been renamed Charlotte’s Par 3.

Josh Sens

Golf.com Editor

A golf, meals and journey author, Josh Sens has been a GOLF Journal contributor since 2004 and now contributes throughout all of GOLF’s platforms. His work has been anthologized in The Greatest American Sportswriting. He’s additionally the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, of Are We Having Any Enjoyable But: the Cooking and Partying Handbook.