Three nights and the three courses that define the resort, with enough room to breathe between rounds.
4 Days
Best Value
$1500–$2500/person
3
Moderate
Three nights is the minimum trip that does Bandon justice. It allows three full 18-hole rounds, one each from three of the resort's five courses, with enough breathing room for an evening drive along the coast and the kind of unhurried meals that the setting deserves. This itinerary selects Pacific Dunes, Bandon Dunes, and Old Macdonald, a combination that spans the resort's range: Tom Doak's cliff-top masterpiece, the original David McLay Kidd layout that launched the resort, and the template-hole tribute that represents the most architecturally ambitious course on the property.
Arrive at OTH (35-minute drive) or make the longer drive from Eugene (2 hours 36 minutes) or Portland (4 hours 20 minutes). Check into the Lodge or Chrome Lake Cottages.
Morning round at Old Macdonald. The template holes require a different kind of thinking than Pacific Dunes demanded the day before.
Morning round at Bandon Dunes, the original course. David McLay Kidd's 1999 design occupies the most dramatic coastal position on the property, with several holes running along the cliff edge and a slope rating of 145 that makes it the most demanding test at the resort.
Check out and drive to the airport. Groups with early flights from OTH face a short, 35-minute transfer.
Three nights leaves no room for a rest day, which means the body needs to handle three consecutive rounds of walking links golf in potentially demanding conditions. Physical preparation matters: the courses are not flat, the distances are real, and the wind adds to the exertion. Groups uncertain about three consecutive days of walking should schedule Old Macdonald for the middle day, as its routing is the least physically taxing of the three.
A rental car is essential for airport transfers, the Face Rock Creamery stop, and dinner in Old Town Bandon. On-resort, the shuttle handles everything. The combination of Pacific Dunes, Old Macdonald, and Bandon Dunes provides sufficient variety that the two omitted courses, Sheep Ranch and Bandon Trails, become the reason for the return trip. That is the best possible outcome.
$1500–$2500
per person
4 Days
3 nights
3
courses included