"Mike Keiser followed his instincts to build courses that speak to
golf as a rugged adventure. Steve Goodwin's spirited book will speak to
the golfing soul in you." --Lorne Rubenstein, columnist for The Globe
and Mail (Canada) and author of A Season in Dornoch
On a wild, windblown bluff high above the Pacific sits one of America's
premier golfing destinations, Bandon Dunes. Golf enthusiast Mike Keiser
had the dream of building this British-style "links" course on a stretch
of Oregon's rugged coast, and Dream Golf is the first all-inclusive
account of how he turned his passion into a reality.
Now, in this updated and expanded edition, golf writer Stephen Goodwin
revisits Bandon Dunes and introduces readers to Keiser's latest effort
there, a new course named Old Macdonald that will present golfers with a
more rugged, untamed version of the game. This "new" approach to the
sport is, in fact, a return to the game's origins, with a very deep bow
to Charles Blair Macdonald (1856 -1939), the father of American golf
course architecture and one of the founders of the U.S. Golf
Association. This highly anticipated fourth course, designed by renowned
golf course architect Tom Doak along with Jim Urbina -- as detailed in
Dream Golf -- will further enhance Bandon Dunes' reputation as a place
where golf really does seem to capture the ancient magic of the game.
