Bandon Dunes

• 🏆America's 100 Greatest Public Courses — Golf Digest
• 🏆Best Resort Courses — Golfweek
• 🏆Best in State — Oregon — Golf Digest

David McLay Kidd was barely 30 when he routed Bandon Dunes — the first course at what has become the most complete links-golf destination in the United States. The course opened May 19, 1999 on a 100-foot bluff above the Pacific, with fescue fairways that run firm year-round, blind shots, natural dunes, and the persistent coastal wind that defines everything at Bandon. Golf Digest has kept it on America's 100 Greatest list for over two decades, with a peak rank of 28th (2005-06 and 2011-12) and consistent appearances on America's 100 Greatest Public. Golf Digest also ranks it #2 in Oregon (Best in State). Golfweek has placed it as high as #6 on Best Resort Courses. All five Bandon courses now rank on Golf Digest's 200 Greatest, with four of them in the top 100 — but this is the one that started the resort and put links golf on the American map.