Sheep Ranch

• 🏆Best New Course — Golf Digest
• 🏆Top 100 Public Courses — Golf Course Gurus

Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw opened Sheep Ranch in 2020 — the fifth and final full 18 at Bandon Dunes Resort, built on property co-founder Phil Friedmann and Mike Keiser had been quietly stewarding for years. Sheep Ranch has one mile of ocean frontage and nine green sites on the edge of the continent — every single hole has Pacific views. Unusually, there are no sand bunkers anywhere on the course; only grassy depressions that have a natural, abandoned look. Golf Digest named Sheep Ranch Best New Course of 2020 at its opening. It's ranked on national Top 100 lists (#80 on Guru's Top 100 Public alongside Old Macdonald's #66) and has rapidly climbed toward the top half of that pool since opening. For many Bandon visitors, the pilgrimage is playing all five — Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes, Bandon Trails, Old Macdonald, and Sheep Ranch — over three days.