Bandon Dunes Trip Report
12-17-2020
, 03:37 PM
01-03-2021
, 08:00 PM
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our annual early Jan trip is still on, although we're down to 26 players (from 32). some of the older guys just didn't feel comfortable with the sleeping arrangements and there were only so many lodge singles or chrome lake suites available.
i've played Old Mac every year since it opened but had to choose between OM and Pacific and i chose Pacific. i have to stick to the group tee times so i can't try to chase two rounds a day in January. i'm sure we'll get out on Shorty's at least once in the evening and goof around 'til the sun goes down.
1/6: Trails/Preserve
1/7: Sheep Ranch
1/8: Pacific
1/9: Bandon
our annual early Jan trip is still on, although we're down to 26 players (from 32). some of the older guys just didn't feel comfortable with the sleeping arrangements and there were only so many lodge singles or chrome lake suites available.
i've played Old Mac every year since it opened but had to choose between OM and Pacific and i chose Pacific. i have to stick to the group tee times so i can't try to chase two rounds a day in January. i'm sure we'll get out on Shorty's at least once in the evening and goof around 'til the sun goes down.
1/6: Trails/Preserve
1/7: Sheep Ranch
1/8: Pacific
1/9: Bandon
current forecast doesn't look that bad, but of course i won't really know until i ask Shoe each morning
https://www.windy.com/43.114/-124.41...6,11,m:eQ0acHN
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...unit=0&dd=&bw=
Last edited by REDeYeS00; 01-03-2021 at 08:16 PM.
01-08-2021
, 12:28 PM
drove down from Portland Wednesday morning with a 1pm time at the Preserve. Wasn't able to get down there early enough to join the few guys that played Trails at 11am, but that's probably a good thing.
We had a 4-5 club wind and it rained constantly almost every hole. Full gore-tex was no match for those conditions, even Shoe gave the day a '1'.
We played skins as a five-some and I won two skins. I think I had five pars, maybe just four. Nobody in the group remembers ever seeing that much standing water on Bandon greens. There were rivers on at least half the holes so we were moving balls around to give ourselves a dry line to the hole. Here's a view of the Bandon 18th green and putting green from the lodge right before sunset when the rain finally calmed down a bit.
Luckily the weather was a bit different Thursday morning before we played the Sheep Ranch. Sunrise at the practice facility:
I'll give my thoughts on the SR later, but until then here are a couple of beauty shots:
10:20 time at Pacific this morning so I need to get some food and hit a few balls.
We had a 4-5 club wind and it rained constantly almost every hole. Full gore-tex was no match for those conditions, even Shoe gave the day a '1'.
We played skins as a five-some and I won two skins. I think I had five pars, maybe just four. Nobody in the group remembers ever seeing that much standing water on Bandon greens. There were rivers on at least half the holes so we were moving balls around to give ourselves a dry line to the hole. Here's a view of the Bandon 18th green and putting green from the lodge right before sunset when the rain finally calmed down a bit.
Luckily the weather was a bit different Thursday morning before we played the Sheep Ranch. Sunrise at the practice facility:
Spoiler:
I'll give my thoughts on the SR later, but until then here are a couple of beauty shots:
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01-09-2021
, 12:05 AM
woke up this morning at 6am to the sound of sleet pounding against my windows, of course it wasn't sleet...just a really heavy rain combined with high wind. roll over and pick up my phone to look at the weather radar and it is a really small isolated cell passing over us, appears to be clear after that.
head to the range at 9am and another light squall comes through. just enough to make me pull the coat and pants out of the bag after getting wet for 15 minutes, but once i did it went away in another 15 minutes. take off the gear and head to Pacific for our 10:20.
we had one or two holes early with the wind up around 15 mph and a bit chilly since the clouds were still around, but from around 5 or 6 to sunset the wind sat down and the sun stayed out.
a tale of two nines: played the front 5 or 6 over net, played the back 2 under net after finding my swing (especially the driver) and not three putting for bogey like i did three times on the front.
3 tee
4 tee (one of my top five holes on property)
5 tee (playing 195 today)
i've played Pacific close to 20 times and this is only the second or third time i've played the lower green on 9 and the lower tee on 10. 10 was playing 175 flag
11 in all its glory.
don't let the flag in the pic fool you, it was a light wind from right to left with a sucker pin on the left. i aimed middle, hit a beautiful baby draw that landed right of the pin but the kicked hard left and kept going. this is all that was between my ball and the death bunker on the left. shoved an 7i into the grass three inches behind the ball and made the 12 inch par putt.
14 tee
15 tee
17 tee
once again some after round fun at the Punchbowl. less than an hour after i took this pic every hole was full of at least four people.
it was a very unusual day for this time of year. the little wind we had was from the north (summer wind) and not the usual winter wind from the south. temps later in the day were probably in the low 60s...just an overall extraordinary early January day on the Oregon coast.
@ShoeGolfBandon gave yesterday an 8, and i'm guessing he'll give today a 10.
head to the range at 9am and another light squall comes through. just enough to make me pull the coat and pants out of the bag after getting wet for 15 minutes, but once i did it went away in another 15 minutes. take off the gear and head to Pacific for our 10:20.
we had one or two holes early with the wind up around 15 mph and a bit chilly since the clouds were still around, but from around 5 or 6 to sunset the wind sat down and the sun stayed out.
a tale of two nines: played the front 5 or 6 over net, played the back 2 under net after finding my swing (especially the driver) and not three putting for bogey like i did three times on the front.
3 tee
4 tee (one of my top five holes on property)
5 tee (playing 195 today)
i've played Pacific close to 20 times and this is only the second or third time i've played the lower green on 9 and the lower tee on 10. 10 was playing 175 flag
11 in all its glory.
don't let the flag in the pic fool you, it was a light wind from right to left with a sucker pin on the left. i aimed middle, hit a beautiful baby draw that landed right of the pin but the kicked hard left and kept going. this is all that was between my ball and the death bunker on the left. shoved an 7i into the grass three inches behind the ball and made the 12 inch par putt.
14 tee
15 tee
17 tee
once again some after round fun at the Punchbowl. less than an hour after i took this pic every hole was full of at least four people.
it was a very unusual day for this time of year. the little wind we had was from the north (summer wind) and not the usual winter wind from the south. temps later in the day were probably in the low 60s...just an overall extraordinary early January day on the Oregon coast.
@ShoeGolfBandon gave yesterday an 8, and i'm guessing he'll give today a 10.
Last edited by REDeYeS00; 01-09-2021 at 12:12 AM.
01-10-2021
, 08:30 PM
he predicted a 9 for those who played yesterday and he wasn't that far off.
coldest morning so far. the car said 37 on the way to the practice center before sunrise but there was zero wind so it wasn't that bad. just put on both gloves for the first couple dozen swings until the finger circulation got going and the bees went away.
started at 8:10 on Bandon and the sun wasn't quite out for the first couple of holes, then the clouds passed for the drive on 3. the wind picked up after sunrise but wasn't much more than 10mph from the E to start and swung around later in the round to the SSE.
looking back down 1 fairway from the green
3 tee
only posting this scuzzy pic of 5 because i birdied it for the first time ever
that's a damn hard hole
12. sadly did not recreate my previous two 'closest to an ace i've ever been' experiences. bogey
15. it struck me how much they've tamed this hole over the years. the bunker short right has had it's upper third filled in, and the mound left of the green has been shaved down and seeded to give you a chance if you pull your tee shot.
was playing 175 uphill to a forward pin yesterday with wind helping right to left.
the infamous 16. wind into us from left to right, guy in our group somehow stops his drive 3 yards from the devil's ******* greenside bunker.
+3 net with a birdie and five pars. really had to scrape it around and make putts to even get that score, but sure the hell had fun doing it.