87, 39 putts (one 1 putt, five 3 putts), 7/18 GIR, 13/14 fairways.

No strokes gained data, since no maps site has updated to include the current map of Sheep. Also can't input it into my site that I use to track my handicap and stats, which is super annoying, esp since it was my best round. Also using the Arccos to really relive the shots and round helps so much!

For the 2 on 2 matches, the final pairing was me with my brother, we won 2up. I defeated my brother 6&4, leading the 90h match 11up, defeated buddy 5&3, leading 90h match 13up, and beat my dad 2&1, taking a 1up lead in the 90h match.

Dad and I scooped all the skins with him taking 10 and me the other 8.

Really enjoyed being there before the round. The panorama from the patio is incredible, and the secluded range was really cool.


Fire pit with amazing panorama down to the ocean.

Cool shot of 11 green from the patio area.

Opening tee shot.

For the 3rd straight day, smoked a drive on a good line. Hit a really good 5w second, but it slid just a bit right and into the gorse just short and right of the green. Good pitch up and 2putts for my 3rd straight opening bogey.

In 1st fairway.

1st green.

Beside the 1st green. LOVE the snag tree.

View of 17 green from 1 green.
Pound a drive on 2, hit a good gap wedge in, routine par. Pretty good shot on 3, just off, chip up close and make another par.

3rd hole.

4 was playing tough into the wind, and I pulled my drive giving me a longer way in. Hit a solid 3w approach and made an easy bogey. Hit a nice shot on 5 to about 15 feet and make another easy par.

Then 6. It was playing into the wind and lonnnng. Hit a pretty good drive but pulled a touch, then flared my 3w a bit and it got perilously close to the cliff. Hit what I thought was a good 8i chip from there, but couldn't see the surface and it just scooted WAY long over the green. Chipped back up, couldn't save bogey.


The awesome 6th, including my brother hitting his tee shot.

Kind of a wipey 9i on 7 missed the green short right for another bogey. Great drive on 8, then flew the green with a 5i, but got down in 3 for bogey. Next, a wide right approach over by the 10 tee, middling chip, and first 3putt of the round led to a double on 9, out in 42.

10 featured an all-time crazy shot, and one of my biggest trip regrets. Hit a great drive down the left side, then hoseled my approach which bounded right and hopped into a gorse bush about 18-24 inches off the ground, 80 yards out from the green. I stepped in, with my heels on the very edge of a signficant downslope behind me, and baseball slapped it with a 7i onto the green! SOOOO annoyed that I didn't think to get a pic of the ball in the bush. Sadly, had a significant ridge to deal with and 3-putted again for double.

11 is the Volcano hole, and I hit a middling drive in the fairway, but couldn't go in 2, so laid back with a very well struck hybrid, and then overclubbed my 3rd to the back of the green with a front pin and had my third straight 3-jack, this for bogey.

Volcano. Pops ended up left of that massive mound and is a very low ball hitter. Would have made him +5000 to do anything from there, but he hit a great 7i just over it to 15 feet.

Hit another middling drive on 12 way right, but it caught the very edge of the fairway on an upslope. RIPPED a beauty of a 5w that was cutting back to a right pin, but slipped just off the green, chip up and 2 putt. Was near the green on 13 in two, but chip was just OK, then missed a 5 footer for par.

Hit what I thought was gonna be a great drive on 14, but it caught the massssive knob and slid off to the right, leaving a longer approach than I anticipated. Hit it decent, but just off the green and another basic bogey.

15 was my only missed fairway, pounded it but just a bit right and it caught the fluffy rough. Hit a really nice shot out of that to about 18 feet and 2putted for par.

16, fire the signature hole alert haha! Hit a really nice pitch in there to 18 feet or so. We were trying to move fast as the rain had started and was clearly getting ready to really get going, I hit a mediocre birdie putt, left it 4 feet short, then missed that. Blleergh.

Gorgeous.

POUNDED a drive right at the green on 17, and it was about 5 yards shy and just at the left edge, def no more than 20 feet or so from the cliff. Yikes! Chipped that up to 6 feet, straight putt, and pulled the damn thing.

17 green from the other side, 4 hours later. You can see my orange ball and its ill-fated short birdie effort.

18 was playing right into a driving rain with probably 20-25 mph wind and I laced a driver, 3w, 8i to have about 20 feet for birdie and left it right beside the hole for another par, out in 45.

Really just kept myself out of trouble this round (obv helpful that there are no death bunkers to find the HEY YOU MADE QUAD disaster button in). Reliving it here and with the pics is def improving my (already high) evaluation of this course, and I'm def excited to fire it again ASAP. The views really are just out of this world throughout.


Forgot to put this in the OM report, but pretty cool shot of the Sheep Ranch from Old Mac.

100, 41 putts (1 one putt, 6 three putts), 4/18 GIR, 8/14 fairways.
Strokes gained: Driving -2.2, Approach -2.8, Short game -3.6, Putting -4.6.

For the gambling, my buddy was most down and pops was most up, so they were partners for the 36 hole match for Trails/Pac. They led 4up after this round, I was up and down and my brother played the worst he's played in years.

I lose to pops 1dn, 90h match is AS through 72 (fun!)
I beat my brother 1up, lead the 90h match 12up
I lost to buddy 1 dn, lead the 90h match 12up

My first lifetime round with a caddie carrying my bag. I really enjoyed the freedom to walk the fairways fully unencumbered, especially at a place like Bandon, where you can really soak in the views and atmosphere. And of course, stuffing an approach and just strolling to the green carrying a putter is too elite!

As we hit the first tee, we have a nice solid 25-30 mph wind in our face and it's fairly chilly. Wind is from the south, and the southern sky had looked pretty dark but the heavy rain pocket slid east of us, which we were thankful for!


Watching the group in front of us begin their hike into the wilderness.

For the fourth straight round, I hit a good driver on the 1st hole down near the nets. Have about 125 in up the hill and hit a 5 iron into the wind, ha. Flare it right of the mound right of the green where it is on a huge upslope. Good - I hit a nice chip off of it to 18 feet. Bad - I run that putt 5 feet by and miss the comebacker, ending my streak of bogeying every opener.


My POV for my 3rd shot on 1.

Hit 5i again on 2, and again leave it out right, the wind was quartering left and just didn't move it back. Have to hike way up on the dune right, which is like walking on a beach mountain, so soft, lot of effort! It's on a tricky lie, so just take my medicine and chip it down in front of the green rather than trying to fly the bunker onto the green. Hit a nice up with my putter from there to 8 feet and make that for a solid 4.

Hit a hookish drive on 3, but find the 4th fairway over there, then smack two nice hybrids back to back to reach the green, giving me a 15 foot look at birdie and a tap in par.

Pound a drive up the left on 4, starting to feel pretty good about this round! Chunk a wedge from there, then hit a pitch a bit thinny that runs over the green right. Chip back up to 18 feet, and 3-jack that for triple. Never get complacent!


5 tee

Flag is right up front on 5, and not wanting to flirt with short and the death bunkers, I hit a flushed wedge too deep with the ridge making the next putt tough. Birdie look is from 67 feet, and I give myself a solid 7 foot look at par, but lip it out for the 3rd 3-putt in first 5 holes, but the first justifiable one at least.

Another well struck drive on 6 but I find the giant bunker down the right side. Hit a solid full SW from there, but leave it out right. Chip that one up to 20 feet, routine 2-putt bogey.

We get some light rain from roughly hole 6 through 9, but I hit another good drive into the breeze (wind once we moved into the woods on 3 was more in the 15 mph zone, very workable). Lace a 5w into the breeze up the hill from there, and it jussssst leaks right and finds the short right bunker. Leave two shots in the damn bunker, before finally hitting a solid one out that catches a bit of slope and ends up 18 feet out. 3-jack that for quad. JESUS what a waste of two solid shots!


7 tee. Tough hole uphill into the wind and wet, but six shots to get down from 20 yards leaves a mark.

8 is playing driveable with the wind from my tee and I hit a well-struck but pulled drive pin-high left of the green. I have a pitch over a bunker to a not-huge green, and exasperatingly thin it over the green to the bunker on the other side, not what I needed after the adventure on 7. Hit a good bunker shot to 9 feet, but can't get that one to fall and walk off with a sweet and sour bogey.

Hit a good drive, then hybrid on 9 to be in good position. Chunk a 7i approach, then pullthin a wedge back left over the green. Lord. Hit a GREAT chip from there to 5 feet, lip that out for double and front nine 51, which felt like it could have been 43 with no real change.

Love love love the little tunnel path from 9 into the clearing reveal on 10. The hole transitions on Trails were just so cool, loved really everything about this track.

Hit a great drive on 10, then semifat a hybrid up short of the green. Hit an OK chip to 20 feet, then 3-jack that one as well. Paying the piper for running so hot with the putter at Bandon Dunes! Didn't feel like I was putting poorly honestly, just being slightly off and every mistake being compounded/punished.

Pulled my drive on 11 up the hill left, leaving a long way home with water right of course. Lace a 3w from 230 out to 41 feet, lag it up dead, tap in for par. Needed that, let's go!

Hit 5w on 12 to 20 feet for birdie, another great shot. Lag it up dead, tap in for par, rolling!

Annnnnnnd snap hook one into the trees left on 13 for our first lost ball/penalty of the round. Drop and hit a really good 3w up that I pull a bit and ends up at the bottom of the hill left of the green. Hit what I thought was a perfect bump and run 8i that got about 2 feet from the green then rolled basically back to my feet. Obv hit the next one through the green into death bunker on the right side, leave one in that bunker for good measure on my way to quadzilla.

Take the truck ride up to 14 and take in the Keiser inspiration point. Just so amazing up there, incredible feeling and views. Pictures from there are awesome, but they don't truly capture the scope or just the serenity/vibe of the whole thing.

The scene at and around 14 tee.

Serenity and vibe are harshed with another hook into the garbage on 14. Drop and hit a really nice 8i that just cuts a tiny bit and bounces down into the bunker right of the green. Leave the first one in, but hit a great second one to 8 feet. Run that 4 feet by, miss that one for one, back to back quads. Tilt.

Have a self-chat, then another good drive on 15. Hit a pretty poor 8i into the greenside bunker short right, which was not exciting given my bunker play on this trip (I did work on bunker play pre-trip, and was having success right before. My weakness is getting very armsy with bunker shots with some disconnection. If I feel like my navel drives the shot back and through, good results. Holding up under pressure obv hit and miss). I do hit a good one though here, but miss the 9 foot par bid. Tap in bogeys feel good after quads though!

Hit a great driver, then 5w up 16. I flush a wedge approach where I can't see the surface, and it had gone off the back. Damn. Hit a solid puttchip to 9 feet, but again miss, again tap in bogey.

16 tee. Intimidating view and walk, but 3 flushed shots help!

What a beautiful hole 17 is! I unfortunately fat an 8i down short of the green. Pretty good putter from there to 15 feet, another tap in bogey.


17 tee.

Head to 18 needing par to stay in double digits. LFG! As we walk off 17, a moderate rain begins falling. At the top of my backswing, either my buddy or one of the caddies bangs a bag, and I flare my drive into the junk right. Boooooo. I drop and just lace an 8i through the rain to 18 feet, catch the lip of it on my putt for par and 99 but it doesn't drop and I tap in for 100.


Getting dry and warm at Trails End after a solid rain on 18. One of those where you think, eh, one hole, hassle of getting out the rain gear isn't worth it, it will prob stop any second, then you get to be damp and cold!

Funny how in my head I played pretty bad this round, but looking back over it, was a couple minifiascoes and putting runbad from being a pretty good round for me. It definitely didn't help to have 3 lost balls off the tee in the last 7 holes as far as take-away feelings of how I played.

Just love this golf course. I know 14 and 16 are controversial, and maybe my opinion will change with more runs, but thought they were both fine and fair, if difficult. It's obviously less splashingly photogenic than the oceanside courses, but the scale and framing, along with the transitions, just SUNG to me, even though they weren't meaningfully capturable with a camera.

102, 41 putts (one 1 putt, 4 3 putts, 1 4 putt (LOL JFC)), 5/18 GIR, 9/13 fairways
Strokes gained: Driving +0.1, Approach -10.2 (LOL JFC), Short -4.9 (LOL JFC), Putting -2

For the 36h match, brother and I rallied to get close, before losing 4&3, brother played his best round of the trip, 84 with a back nine 39. We pressed and won the press 2&1, then we re-pressed to make the whole match on the line on 18 and halved.

I ended up AS with dad for the day and for the 90h match
Lost to bro 4&3, won the 90h match 9&8
Lost to buddy 2&1, won the 90h match 10&9

We were really excited about the forecast for us at Pac, was going to be the coolest temperature round of the trip, but no wind and no rain in the forecast. Was definitely chilly arriving at Pac at 8 for our 840a time, but the weather all day was just PHENOMENAL. Blue skies, wind under 5mph, just staggeringly beautiful. Chill wore off quickly, and would have been totally happy playing the back 9 in shorts and a polo.

I had planned on going in and looking at all the course camera archives to check us out, but was disappointed to see it is difficult/impossible to choose what camera you want to see from in archive, and only options are regular speed and 30x. I told my wife before the Pac round that she could watch us. She sent me a pic of us on the tee from the cam, then I showed my group and she texts "are you showing everyone the pics?" hahaha. Would def love a feature of choosing any cam you wanted and picking time/date and watching at maybe 2-5x speed. Tiny nitpick!


Me observing Pac 1 on course cam, plus our POV.

Piped a drive down the right side on 1, so went 5/5 on opening tee shots. Had a wedge in and just borked it right into the fairway bunker, wtf. Wedged out short of the green, then hit a 35 yard puttchip up to 5 feet. Lipped that out, FFS. Double.

Hit a nice drive over the left bunkers on 2, then a very nice 9i into the green. Had 60 feet for birdie and had to traverse the giant knob on the back left part of the green. Hit a nice putt to 7 feet but missed that as well.

Another good drive on 3, then a pulled 3w left over the left bunker toward the gorse. Couldn't see it down, but arrived and it had a beautiful lie just shy of the gorse and about 75 yards into the green. Hosel it into greenside bunker. Neat! Hit that shot over the green, then chip up mediocrely to 35 feet. Mediocre lag to 7 feet, run that 2 feet by, THEN lip that one out for a smoooooth quad with a down in 7 shots from 75 yards. Impossible.


My lucky break on 3, right before the carnage.


4 tee. Wow.

Make the turn to 4, what a gorgeous setting, even in the rage afterglow haha. Playing dead into the wind, I hit another good drive, then have 3w that I pull into the bunker left. OK out short of the green, chip up to 40 feet, two putts for double.

As we hit 5 tee, the marshal lets us know nicely that we need to move a bit faster. Obv my adventure on 3 didn't help, my brother isn't the fastest player in the world (tho the best in our group), and my dad is moving a bit slow after 85+ holes of walking. I am always super cognizant of pace, though that makes me rush sometimes. I hit a nice 6i to the fringe, which was shocking in the circumstances, and the other 3 all hit bad shots which, with the marshal watching definitely is giving me an anxiety spiral. Dad is in the bunker far short, blades it into the lip unplayable, drops out, then chips his hybrid into the greenside bunker. Come on pops haha. I putt chip up to 9 feet, but miss that one, tap in bogey.

We never catch the group in front of us, though we are usually one shot behind (so we see them walking off par 4 greens as we tee off on that hole etc.) and the group behind us only waited on a shot or two, so it wasn't disastrous. Played it in just a shade under 4:15 and the requested pace was 4:05. Not calamity, but def hate hate hate that feeling.

I hit what I think is my first driver miss of the day on 6, going well right, but it carries the bunker, and is actually sitting in a great spot, perfect lie, and I have a 9i straight up the angle of the green without having to carry the bunker or dropoff. Obv, thin it into the gunch over the green, drop, hit a pretty decent chip that catches a ridge and ends up 30 feet away, 3 jack that for a triple.

7 and 8 are moderately blurry for me, definitely glad to have Arccos and the course preview on the site, I was def frustrated and feeling rushed a bit. Another good drive on 7, topped hybrid, then what I thought was a good bump and run that hit a soggy spot and died. Chip to 15 feet, two putt for double.

Another really nice drive on 8, followed by a chunky 6i, then a pitch into the greenside bunker. Please stop! Leave two in, before a nice 3rd to 15 feet and a 2 putt quad.

Another self-chat on 9 tee, with the idea to get the wheels back on and at least have hope of sub-100 when we are on 16 tee or so. We are playing the upper green and I hit a pretty good drive on the requested line, but miss the fairway into the rough right. Pretty dicey lie, but hit a really nice 9i just over, chip up to 25 feet and make a 2putt bogey for a front nine 56, disgusting.

Tee shot on 10 is a slighly chunky 8i down short of the green, chip up to 50 feet, lag it nice, tap in bogey.


What a pair of back to back par 3s.

Hole is way back on 11, I hit what I thought was going to be a great 8i but comes up on the front, 75 feet away. I lag that to 2 feet and tap in for par, that was fun. Buddy hit a shot that we legit thought could go in on the tee but was actually 10 feet short and he made bogey so that was a fun yoinking of a hole ha.

Feeling back on track, hit a good drive up the left fairway on 12. Have 5w in, which I've hit well, and hit a ridiculous heely low hook off the cliff left of 4. JESUS. Drop and hit a really nice 9i to 45 feet, 3 putt that for double.

Another good drive up the right side on 13, but it doesn't really go far. Hit a beauty of a 5w into the green and have 15 feet down the hill for bird. Roll it 7 feet by, miss the comebacker. :/.

13 another magnificent hole, incredible tee view, then the dune right of the green is just mammoth. Check the flagstick on the green for a sense of scale. So awesome.

Skanky topped 8i on 14, then a really nice SW out of the mess to just over, really nice putt chip down to 5 feet, roll it in for bogey.

On 15, manage to play another full golf hole! Nice drive up the left, good 3w to short left of green, chip up to 20 feet, two putt par. Golf is easy!

Mediocre drive on 16 flares right into a dodgy lie. Thin a 9i out of it that rockets over the green and just buries in the mound behind it. Drop, hit a really nice puttchip from back right up to 10 feet, but can't make that. Double.

Broken record from Trails, but 17 is another just gorgeous par 3 that gives me great feels. Hit a really nice 5i to the right part of the green, 65 feet for bird, hit a great putt that hits the flagstick dead ass center, but bounces off, tap in par.


17 tee, then love the view over 17 green with 18 extending in the distance. My yellow ball with 65 foot birdie putt visible in second pic.

So now, just need a 6 or better on 18 to rally all the way back from a front nine 56 to staying sub-100. Hit driver hard, but pull it into the sandy zone left, not the bunker, but def a sandy lie. Flub a hybrid out of that back up on the fairway level. Third shot pound a 3w, but pull it up on the hill left. We search but cannot find it despite Brownbear's guarantee "oh we'll find that" haha. Dream is dead! Hit what I thought was a great bump and run but it runs through the green. Then do that again, back off the front. DEAR GOD. Chip that up to 12 feet annnnnnnd lip it for one last quad, definitely not the way I wanted the last hole of the trip to go!

As noted earlier, we grabbed lunch at Pac Grill (grilled cheese and seafood chowder, A++) then spent a solid 4 hours at Punchbowl, which was just a tremendous full day.

Chowder and grilled cheese.

Like Trails, felt afterwards like I just forgot how to play, but revisiting here, a few mini-meltdowns and single bad occurrences away from another solid round.


Two pics of the exterior of the Chrome Lake lodging, plus a shot of the view from the path from our door. So serene.