Bandon Dunes Short Course

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon has appointed WAC Golf to design a new short course on sand dunes immediately south of the resort’s Bandon Preserve layout.  The new course will join the resort’s six others – Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes, Bandon Trails, Old Macdonald, Bandon Preserve and Sheep Ranch – and WAC Golf will be the first new design team to work at the resort since Coore and Crenshaw designed Bandon Trails in 2005.

The site for the new course is all sand dunes, but more undulating than elsewhere on the Bandon property. The site is ideal for a short course. Our goal is to make the best short course in golf.

Whitman, Axland and Cutten will be shaping the key golf features. Tony Russell, a local contractor who has contributed to every golf course at the resort, will be assisting with construction. Irrigation design is being handled by Greg Baer, whereas Bandon’s head of agronomy Ken Nice and team assisting with irrigation and managing the course’s grow-in.

Preview play is expected to be available in early 2024.

Golf Architects:  Rod Whitman, Dave Axland, and Keith Cutten

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