The breezes off the Pacific Ocean have shaped Oregon’s rugged coast for eons, creating the natural canvas on which Bandon Dunes now rests. It is this coastal weather that makes true links golf so un...
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Every July during The Open Championship, images of faded green and brown fescues beam back to the high-def televisions of the United States, where golfers are accustomed to the manicured emerald green...
Category: Links Golf
Tags: links, golf, Bandon, dunes, sand, undulations, coast, ocean, bump, run, long, putt
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If imagery speaks to you, and for most of us in this day and age it does, this post will surely entertain and help quickly digest a couple key points about Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. Check out our firs...
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For fifteen years Grant Rogers has been sharing his golf wisdom with guests and fellow employees as the Director of Instruction here at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
If you're lucky enough to know him,...
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"On the beach..." "Fried egg..." "Trapped in the bunker..." We've all been there. The ball leaps off the club face, tracing a perfect arc across a crisp blue sky. It sails pleasingly over a sea of gr...
Category: Golf Techniques
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Grant Rogers, Director of Instruction at Bandon Dunes
It's an adage as old as the game -- the modern game, at least: "Drive for show, putt for dough." It means a round of golf is won or lost while t...
Category: Golf Techniques
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Shorty's is a nine-hole par-three course at the Bandon Dunes Practice Center. It was designed by David McLay Kidd, the same Scottish architect who designed the Bandon Dunes course. The course was na...
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