![]() It was a typically classy move for a man of Coore’s integrity, and he surely justified the faith Keiser had shown in him by coming up with an exceptional design that put nine greens on the cliffs and produced a number of holes that will become firm favourites among Bandon Dunes regulars before long. “Tom and Gil are special friends who would have designed amazing courses, so I called them both to make sure there were no hard feelings.” “It was a potentially awkward situation,” says Coore now. Keiser, of course, is the man behind the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and it was his love of the game, adventurous spirit, determination, and money that took a wild idea very few thought could work and turned it into an extraordinarily popular golf destination that currently employs more than 550 locals and to where more than 50,000 eager golfers travel every year. Golf has actually been played on the Sheep Ranch for the last 20 years, when Tom Doak built 13 greens on 105 acres of the 400-acre property Mike Keiser and business partner Phil Friedmann had purchased from an energy company that used it as a wind farm. Two dozen or so fortunate links-lovers are out playing the nine holes of the Sheep Ranch, the recent addition that opened only last month. The weather is only half the story, though. ![]() ![]() It is, in short, a perfect day for golf at Bandon Dunes and everyone present is having a hard time believing their luck. Two days before, the rain had poured and the wind had blown, but on this particular late spring weekend, the sky is a delicate blue, the temperature reaches the low 20s Celsius, and what wind there is adds an amusing twist to the proceedings.
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