Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
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Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is a complex of four golf course
Golf course
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s located just north of the city of Bandon
Bandon, Oregon
- Economy :Like many communities on the Oregon coast, Bandon had significant fishing and timber industries, which were greatly diminished by the 1980s, though some remnants still exist. Bandon's current economy revolves around wood products, fishing, tourism, and agriculture...

, Oregon
Oregon
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, United States
United States
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Courses

The first course at the resort, Bandon Dunes, opened on May 19, 1999. Bandon Dunes was designed by Scotsman
Scottish people
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 David McLay Kidd, and it instantly garnered high praise. The course was one of Kidd's early efforts in designing a golf course. The course features gorse
Gorse
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-lined fairways and numerous pot bunkers.

The resort's second course, Pacific Dunes, opened on July 1, 2001. Pacific Dunes was designed by Michigan
Michigan
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 architect Tom Doak
Tom Doak
Tom Doak is a golf course architect. He currently has 4 courses ranked among the top 100 in the world according to Golf Magazines "Top 100 Courses in the World" list, including Pacific Dunes in Oregon, Ballyneal in Colorado , Barnbougle Dunes in Tasmania and Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand...

, and sculpted by his design firm, Renaissance Design, Inc. Pacific Dunes also opened to glowing reviews and quickly surpassed Bandon Dunes as the highest-rated course on the property. Pacific Dunes was rated the number one resort golf course in the country in 2005 by Golfweek
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magazine, placing just ahead of Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach Golf Links is a golf course located in Pebble Beach, California, on the west coast of the United States.Pebble Beach is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful courses in the world. It hugs the rugged coastline and has wide open views of Carmel Bay, opening to the Pacific Ocean,...

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The resort's third course, Bandon Trails, was designed by the team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw
Ben Crenshaw
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. Bandon Trails opened on June 1, 2005. Bandon Trails departs from its siblings in that no holes are routed along the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
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. The course meanders through dunes, meadows, and forest land. Upon its opening, Golf Odyssey, the preeminent newsletter devoted to golf travel, named Bandon Dunes, The Best Place on the Planet for Golf.

The fourth course, Old Macdonald (in honor of Charles Blair Macdonald), was designed by a team led by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina. It opened in June 2010.

The United States Golf Association
United States Golf Association
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 selected Bandon Dunes Golf Resort as the site of the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links
U.S. Amateur Public Links
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 and the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links
U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links
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 championship tournaments, to be played June 27-July 2, 2011.

Bandon Dunes has previously hosted two USGA events, the 2006 Curtis Cup
Curtis Cup
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, and the 2007 U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship.

Use of golf carts is not permitted at the resort, unless required for medical reasons.

In 2009, Golf Magazine
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named the three courses existing at that time to its list of the 50 best courses built in the last 50 years. Pacific Dunes ranked second, Bandon Dunes twelfth, and Bandon Trails as thirty-third.
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