This legendary Bandon Dunes occasion is for golf sickos solely

U.S. Open Qualifying is commonly referred to by Golf Channel as “Golf’s Longest Day,” however golf’s precise longest day is going down Tuesday on the southeastern coast of Oregon.

Solely this model is much less of a grind and extra a celebration of the sickest of golf sickos.

Whereas the precise summer season solstice, the longest day of the 12 months within the northern hemisphere and the astronomical begin of summer season, is Thursday, greater than 100 golfers at Bandon Dunes are getting the social gathering began early with the 14th annual Bandon Solstice.

With first-round tee occasions beginning at 5:25 a.m. PDT (earlier than Tuesday’s official dawn at Bandon of 5:37 a.m.), every Bandon Solstice participant will play 72 holes of golf Tuesday on 4 of the resort’s 5 programs.

For this 12 months’s Bandon Solstice, teams are taking part in Bandon Dunes, Bandon Trails, Previous MacDonald and Sheep Ranch, that are all inside GOLF’s Top 100 U.S. Courses checklist. The foursomes every begin on totally different programs, with two waves going off the back and front nines of the Bandon Dunes golf course and work their across the 4 programs.

The day begins with a breakfast buffet at 4:30 a.m. (!!!) and consists of lunch after your second spherical. what they are saying, nothing hits just like the mid-round scorching canine, particularly when “mid-round” is after your thirty sixth gap of the day.

Teams sometimes end all 4 rounds round 8 to eight:30 p.m., earlier than Tuesday’s sundown of 9 p.m. PT. Maybe there’s even sufficient time for gamers to have an “E9” placing contest on the resort’s Punchbowl placing course. That’s if they will nonetheless stand after all.

That provides as much as a reasonably stout tempo. For the 2017 Bandon Solstice, the resort mentioned rounds have been accomplished in a couple of 3-hour-and-15-minute tempo.

Fortunately, gamers sometimes don’t carry their very own luggage. One of the resort’s talented caddies will carry two luggage for 2 rounds after which get replaced. It nonetheless finally ends up being a reasonably profitable day for them because the caddie fee is $100 per bag, per spherical, plus gratuity.

Suppose you may have the stamina to go 4 rounds at Bandon in a single? It doesn’t come low-cost. Costs for this 12 months’s Bandon Solstice have been $2,005 per particular person for a double occupancy room and $2,345 per particular person for a single occupancy room or a shared two-bedroom loft. That’s along with the caddies.

That package deal comes with two nights of lodging for the evening earlier than the occasion and the evening of, a welcome reception and dinner the evening earlier than, 4 rounds of golf for the occasion, breakfast the morning of the occasion and the morning after and dinner after the occasion.

You’ll be able to register as a twosome or a foursome and so long as particular person from every foursome fills out a registration, you’ll be able to enter as many foursomes as you want, you simply higher do it quick. Final 12 months, registration befell in mid-November and the occasion was offered out inside minutes.

For those who do occur to enroll, simply keep in mind, this author, who throughout his solely go to to the resort performed simply one of many 18-hole golf programs, is out there in case you want a fourth.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State College, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf staff and lately returned to this system to function head coach. Jack additionally nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but additionally producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He could be reached at [email protected].