Old Macdonald at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon: Tom Doak and Jim Urbina's tribute to a classic architect
BANDON, Ore. -- Old Macdonald, the newest of the four championship layouts at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, is a big course with really big greens (6.2 acres total).
The bunkers are pretty large, too, and a few of them are downright scary. But the fairways are also huge, which means you can hit it just about anywhere, as long as you don't find one of those bunkers, find it and hit it again.
The course was designed by Tom Doak (who also designed Pacific Dunes) and Jim Urbina, who tried to figure out (with a little help from their friends) what classic architect Charles Blair Macdonald would have done with this piece of land if he were alive in this century. The result is uphill holes, downhill holes, blind shots, troublesome bunkers, a tribute to the Road Hole at the Old Course at St. Andrews and even an 18th green with a punch bowl design that funnels shots toward the middle.