Dream Golf The Making of Bandon Dunes, Revised and Expanded

by Goodwin, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781565129818
• ISBN10: 1565129814
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Algonquin Books

Summary

On a wild, windblown bluff high above the Pacific sits one of America's premier golfing destinations, Bandon Dunes. Golf enthusiast Mike Keiser had the dream of building this British-style "links" course on a stretch of Oregon's rugged coast, and Dream Golf is the first all-inclusive account of how he turned his passion into a reality. Now, in this updated and expanded edition, golf writer Stephen Goodwin revisits Bandon Dunes and introduces readers to Keiser's latest effort there, a new course named Old Macdonald that will present golfers with a more rugged, untamed version of the game. This "new" approach to the sport is, in fact, a return to the game's origins, with a very deep bow to Charles Blair Macdonald (1856 '1939), the father of American golf course architecture and one of the founders of the U.S. Golf Association. This highly anticipated fourth course, designed by renowned golf course architect Tom Doak along with Jim Urbina '” as detailed in Dream Golf '” will further enhance Bandon Dunes' reputation as a place where golf really does seem to capture the ancient magic of the game.

Author Biography

Stephen Goodwin is the author of four other books, including the critically acclaimed Breaking Her Fall. A former director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts, he lives in Virginia and teaches at George Mason University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
A Man with a Program
Soul Work	p. 7
The Anti-Tycoon	p. 13
The Lay of the Land	p. 27
Out with the New, In with the Old	p. 45
The Dunes Club	p. 59
Eureka!	p. 72
Bandon Dunes
Bandon-by-the-Sea	p. 87
The Best-Laid Plans	p. 97
Meet the Family	p. 110
How the Permits Were Won	p. 123
More Serendipity	p. 134
Breaking Ground	p. 143
Do We Like It?	p. 153
The Anti-Resort	p. 166
David at Bandon Dunes	p. 185
Pacific Dunes and Bandon Trails
The Boy Wonder	p. 205
The Moons Are in Alignment	p. 223
Tom at Pacific Dunes	p. 242
The Old-Fashioned Way	p. 255
Old Macdonald
The Peekaboo	p. 275
Granddaddy Throwback	p. 289
Plans in the Dirt, the Dew, and the Sky	p. 300
The Power Spots	p. 311
The Bandon Family	p. 329
Acknowledgments	p. 336
Appendix: Old Macdonald Hole by Hole	p. 340
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