Pacific Dunes

Overview

Designed by Tom Doak, Pacific Dunes opened in 2001. It is remarkably different in character and shot making requirements than our other courses. Pacific Dunes doesn't feel like it was built as much as it was discovered. Rippling fairways remain just as they were found and natural bunkers line the landscape as they have for centuries. The course emerges from shore pines to spectacular 60-foot sand dunes. When the wind blows, precise approach shots are a necessity. Pacific Dunes is short enough to give you hope, but rugged enough to test every facet of your game.

"Pacific Dunes...emerges as perhaps the last great meeting of sand and sea on American soil."
- Ron Whitten, Golf Digest

Pacific Dunes

Architect Notes

Every architect dreams of building among the sand dunes, in the same terrain where golf was conceived in the British Isles. For me and my associates, Pacific Dunes is that dream come true.

I suspect that any golfer would have found some of the same holes, like the par-4 13th along the ocean, but it was an enormous responsibility to find the best possible routing on a site of such potential. The rippling fairways are mostly as we found them; so are the natural bunkers at the 2nd, 7th, 11th, 13th, 16th, and 18th holes, which guided our routing. Our layout is short enough to give every golfer hope, but its rugged nature will test every facet of your game.

It was the highlight of our careers to participate in the creation of Pacific Dunes at what is rapidly becoming one of the great golf resorts in the world, and we had only one chance to get it right. We hope you have many more opportunities to play over this beautiful ground, and to come to appreciate it as we have.

Tom Doak
Course Architect

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Pacific Dunes

Course Routing

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HOLE	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN	TOTAL
PAR	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	36	3	3	5	4	3	5	4	3	5	35	71
BLACK	370	368	499	463	199	316	464	400	406	3485	206	148	529	444	145	539	338	208	591	3148	6633
GREEN	304	335	476	449	181	288	436	369	379	3217	163	131	507	390	128	504	338	189	575	2925	6142
GOLD	287	335	476	410	163	288	377	349	356	3041	149	114	476	371	119	492	301	164	548	2734	5775
HANDICAP	9	11	7	3	17	13	1	5	15		14	18	6	2	16	10	12	8	4
ORANGE	253	275	452	369	133	267	314	296	268	2627	129	96	449	336	100	452	292	128	479	2461	5088
HANDICAP	9	13	1	3	17	11	7	5	15		14	18	6	4	16	8	10	12	2

Pacific Dunes

Overview

Pacific Dunes

Architect Notes

Pacific Dunes

Course Routing

Pacific Dunes

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