Not just the iconic links itself but the car park adjacent. The trip took him to many of Scotland’s finest courses but it was one in particular, Royal Dornoch, that made the biggest impression. Like so many Americans before him, Keiser – a golfer from the age of ten – decided he wanted to embark on a pilgrimage to the cradle of the game. Royal Golf La Bagnaia – Italy’s rising star.bunkered branches out with new golf breaks venture.He later sold the business for a reported $250million. However, to tell the Bandon story properly, you need to go all the way back to the late 1980s when Mike Keiser visited Scotland for the first time.Īfter leaving the Navy, Keiser launched Recycled Paper Greetings, a Chicago-based greeting card company, in 1971. We’re talking par-3 courses, putting courses, short courses, the works. And it’s all the better for it.īy the end of this year, there will be five 18-hole courses to choose from as well as some of the best practice facilities you can think of. “Golf as it was meant to be.” That’s its mission statement, its tantalising promise. Instead, this is a golf resort built by golfers for golfers. This isn’t some cigar-chomping, white collar fat-cat’s country club, nor was it created with a view to staging PGA Tour events. This is just one of the many ways in which Bandon Dunes stands apart from almost every other golf development in the US. Located on the vast Pacific coast, sandwiched between Washington and California, it is a little slice of Scotland in Oregon.
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