Next time you’re name-dropping around the 19th hole, impressing your companions with your insider golf knowledge, try tossing out “Phil Friedmann” and see what kind of response you get. When your ...

When Bandon Dunes Golf Resort opened its first course in 1999, Scottish architect David McLay Kidd’s design was appropriately named Bandon Dunes. No one knew what would become of this course that sat ...

BANDON, Ore. — Sheep Ranch, the once-mystical hidden layout that is now a full-fledged course, opened in June to rave reviews that already put it potentially at the top of the Bandon Dunes Resort ...

One of golf’s most mysterious sites is almost ready for its grand debut. Or for some, a re-introduction. Sheep Ranch is now the fifth 18-hole course at Oregon's Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, as the Bill ...

“So, what’s it like? Is it the best course out there?” my friends and colleagues asked. Not, “How was your trip?” Or, “Are you tired from the nine-hour drive?” Insensitive louts, like so many golfers, ...

At first glance, it’s just an ordinary tussock of grass. Shimmering, graceful, silver-gold grass, dancing lightly in the summer breeze—but grass nonetheless. Yet sheep rancher Jeanne Carver’s fond ...

Immediately upon its official opening this month, The Sheep Ranch went into the thick of the argument about which is the best course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. That’s heady territory considering the ...

Draped atop the craggy headlands of the Pacific Ocean in southern Oregon, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has clearly established itself in its 21 years as the premier must-play public course mecca ever ...

There are few cooler places to make your first hole-in-one. There are even fewer instances when that ace comes with a putter. Allison Koehnke, a 36-year-old mother of two from Salem, Ore., doesn’t ...

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