Old Bandon Golf Course

Old Bandon Golf Links is the former Bandon Face Rock Golf Course, presently leased and operated by Troy & Kim Russell.  Troy, with his extensive golf course construction and maintenance experience, was called in the fall of 2008 to assist owners Margaret Miller and Jerry Brown in returning the course to playable condition, after having been closed 16 months.  Out of that effort grew the idea to lease the course, which opened under the new name and management on March 21, 2009

Troy has a BS in Horticulture with emphasis in Turfgrass Management from Oregon State University, graduating in 1995.  He was with the JR Simplot Company prior to his 10 years with Bandon Dunes, and has been on the construction team or acting project manager on numerous courses including the OGA Course at Tukwila, Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes, Bandon Trails, Tetherow, in Bend, OR and Wine Valley in Walla Walla, WA.  His love of golf and turf management has led him to volunteer on many a major tournament maintenance crew; The PGA Championship at Sahalee CC; The US Open at Pebble Beach, Olympia Fields, Shinnecock Hills, Torrey Pines; The Open at St. Andrews Old Course, 2000 & 2005; Presidents Cup in S. Africa; Walker Cup at Chicago Golf Club; and the Curtis Cup at Bandon Dunes.  He is presently President of the Northwest Turfgrass Association.

Troy brings his vast experience and love of the game together with his family to return an old Bandon icon to it’s community.  Featuring links conditioning, family rates, and clubhouse amenities to suit every player.

Old Bandon Golf

About our logo

Bandon’s Face Rock has been the local icon, complete with indian maiden legend, since before the formation of the town in the mid-1800’s.  It is traditional for golf courses to use local regional geographic icons for their representation.  To remain true to the history of the golf course and the region, we have the image of Face Rock coupled with two hickory shafted clubs, representing Old Bandon Golf Links.  Face Rock Wayside is a State Park, located just north of our course on Beach Loop Drive.

Bandon Crossings Golf Club

Bandon Crossings Golf Course is an affordable escape from Bandon Dunes links golf

By Brandon Tucker,

BANDON, Ore. - Once you’ve experienced a few rounds on the challenging coastal links golf of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, you may feel there really is no place like home - your home golf course, that is.

For those golfers looking for a quick escape back to the friendly confines of their home course, where golf makes sense again, Bandon Crossings Golf Course is your medicine. It provides a more traditional, parkland setting, and for tired legs, it has plenty of golf carts.

Located about 15 minutes south of Bandon Dunes, Bandon Crossings came to fruition rather quickly. The land was purchased by a couple from Eugene in 2005, and by July of 2007, the course was ready to play. Dan Hixon, a local pro from Portland, designed the course, and while the course was shaped by the same man who did Bandon Dunes’ courses, it was seeded with a traditional Rye grass in the fairways and rough and bent grass greens. The result is a softer, greener course that will likely resemble the playing style of your home club.

“They finally get to use their lob wedge again,” remarks Head Professional Mark Fiore, noting the bump-and-run or the 30-yard putt isn’t a necessary shot here like at Bandon Dunes’ three tracks. “There is more comfortability here for a lot of players. I think a lot of people struggle with the grass (at Bandon Dunes) on their first time.”

Bandon Crossings will look more like home to most golfers, though the course does take on a couple personality changes over the course of 18 holes. While the first five and last three holes are played in more wide-open links-style, the course really shines in the middle, when it plays back into thick forests full of coastal furs, cedars and even a few old redwoods.

Bandon Crossings’ par-5 fifth hole (which like Pacific Dunes’ ninth hole has alternate top and bottom greens) plays from high land before heading straight downhill to the bottom green along a river bed. From here, the course plays through thick forest and features the most scenic of the holes, like the sharp, dogleg left eighth hole, where a madrone guards the dogleg and tempts you try and blast a drive over it to cut the corner. You’ll find five par 3s and par 5s here, making for a few more birdie chances, This provides for a steady flow to the round.

There is still plenty of challenge at Bandon Crossings, and the par-5 18th hole makes for a stern finish with a ravine splitting the hole into two halves. The second shot requires a long carry, and if you must lay up, you’re looking at a shot of about 200 yards downhill towards the green. Play your drive on the right-hand side of the fairway to give yourself the best chance of clearing the hazard.

Bandon Crossings golf course: The verdict

Bandon Crossings is an entirely different experience compared to the three Bandon Dunes Resort courses just minutes north. It’s bent and rye grasses are greener and softer, and you’re not going to be hitting any 80-foot putts or chasing knock-downs into 30 mile per hour wind out here. Your more traditional parkland lob shots around the greens can finally come out of the bag.

Golfers whose legs are tired from the walking at Bandon Dunes will appreciate golf carts and softer fairways and smaller, bent grass greens. Golfers who want to play 36 holes but don’t want to walk 36 holes in a day should consider an afternoon round at Bandon Crossings.

Not only will Bandon Crossings be easy on your feet, it’s also about 1/3 the cost of the three (soon to be four) Bandon Dunes courses, so it will give your wallet some relief for the day as well.

Peak season green fees are $75 (cart is an extra $30 per two riders).

Fast fact

Although Dan Hixson has designed three golf courses, Bandon Crossings is the first that has been built.

If you go

Bandon Crossings Golf Club
87530 Dew Valley Lane
Bandon, Oregon 97411
(At Highway 101)
Tee times: (888) 465-3218
Web: BandonCrossings.com

Bandon Old Town Commercial Building!

Location, Location, Location! You will not find a better location for commercial property in Bandon, Oregon than in “Old Town”.  This property is currently leased and running as a popular cafe!  They are not making anymore land in Bandon’s Old Town, so when a property comes on the market you better take a good look if you want to own commercial property in Bandons’ famous Old Town!

Asking only $349,000 with possible owner cary back with large down payment. 

Currently, the upstairs of this building is only used for storage, but it could be converted into an owners apartment with views of the port and river!

Amenities:

• Approximately 1580 square feet on 2 levels.
• Downstairs kitchen area with seating and bathroom.
• Upstairs has an open deck with great views of the port and river! Plus, there is about 355 sq. ft. of enclosed space, currently used for storage.
• Outdoor patio offers seating in the summer months.
• In the heart of Bandons’ Old Town shopping district, which is bustling nearly year round now days!
• Contact: Michael Rupe 360.837.2000

China Creek Estates - 83 acre rural subdivision
Prices ranging from $139,000 - $189,000 for acreage parcels

China Creek Estates a rural community initially consisting of 6 estate quality parcels ranging from 2-9+/- acres.

The community is ideally located just 3 miles south of Bandon, 2 miles north of the new Bandon Crossings golf course, a few minutes south of the world famous Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and only 1.5 miles from easy beach access.

If you are looking to invest or build your country estate within a premier community in the Bandon area there is no better opportunity when considering location, and value.

Features:

• Aesthetically pleasing 3 rail vinyl perimeter fencing along entrance.
• New road, and power/phone/cable conduit to each parcel.
• 2-9 acre estate quality parcels ready for you to enjoy country living, but close to the beach, golf courses and town.
• We can also provide help with local contractors to build your new home.
• Contact: Nathan Juarez - Real Estate Broker - Cell (541) 404-3322

New Road and Underground Power/Utilities Installed!

Doak Working on New Course at Bandon Dunes

The new course, Old Macdonald, will be an 18-hole homage to the legendary early 19th century architect Charles Blair Macdonald, the first U.S. Amateur champion and widely considered the father of golf in America.

Doak and design associate, Jim Urbina, are overseeing a team of experts who are charged with creating a course that reflects the Scottish-influenced look, style, and strategy Macdonald employed in his designs. The new layout, which will be built on 400 acres to the north and east of the Pacific Dunes course, is slated to open July 2010.

Pacific Dunes holds down the No. 2 slot on Golfweek’s Top 100 best American modern courses. It’s also one of two more recent tracks among the classic designs in the top 10 in Golf Magazine’s latest list of top 100 U.S. courses. Macdonald’s most acclaimed course, the 1908-built National Golf Links of America in Southampton, N.Y., is listed one notch below Pacific Dunes in Golf’s rankings. National also just happens to be Keiser’s favorite course.

Doak’s newest project will also have to measure up to Bandon Dunes’ other two courses, the original Bandon Dunes designed by Scotsman David McLay Kidd, and Bandon Trails, created by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Both of these are also among Golf’s 2007 ranking of the Top 100 American courses.

“I think I’m not employing Doak and Urbina as architects. I’m employing them to design as C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor, his apprentice and successor, would build it if they were alive today,” Keiser said earlier.

Doak and Urbina have been consulting and exchanging ideas with a panel of golf-architecture aficionados that includes George Bahto, author of a book about Macdonald’s life.

Keiser’s selection of Doak for the unique project is not surprising. Like Macdonald, Doak is a disciple of Scottish golf after working and studying at St. Andrews. Among the current projects underway at his Traverse City, Mich.-based Renaissance Golf Design firm is a course in Gullane, Scotland, coincidentally named the Renaissance Golf Club, at Archerfield. The neighbor to the east is Muirfield, a renowned British Open venue considered the oldest course in the world.

A recently completed project is a collaborative effort with Jack Nicklaus on the new Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., which has also earned rave reviews. Doak’s three Michigan designs are the High Pointe Golf Club at Williamsburg, Black Forest at the Wilderness Valley Golf Club in Gaylord, and the private Lost Dunes Golf Club in Bridgman, recently named to Golf Digest’s list of the 100 Greatest Courses in America. For more information about Doak and his various works, visit

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort Old McDonald Course

The 7th Hole at Old MacdonaldIn less than a decade Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has impressed enough avid golfers to be mentioned in the same breath as iconic golf destinations like Pebble Beach, Pinehurst and Kiawah Island. The resort is now taking reservations for limited preview play on its highly anticipated fourth offering, Old Macdonald.

While the full 18-hole course isn’t set to open until June 1, 2010, it will be open to a limited number of guests that will be able to sample the course on a 10-hole loop for a rate of $110. Only 32 players per day will be allowed on the course from April 1 to October 1, 2009.

Old Macdonald, designed by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina, will be open first to past and current resort guests wishing to preview the new course.

The design and strategies of each hole can be linked to the design attributes by the course’s namesake and the grandfather of golf course architecture in America, Charles Blair Macdonald. Macdonald designed Chicago Golf Club, Yale Golf Club in Connecticut and the National Golf Links of America, on Long Island.

The three championship courses already in play at Bandon Dunes all rank among the top 21 public courses in America according to Golf Digest: Bandon Dunes, designed by David McLay Kidd in 1999 (No. 7); Pacific Dunes, designed in 2001 by Doak (No. 2); and Bandon Trails, designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore in 2005 (No. 21).

Golfers interested in previewing Old Macdonald or visiting Bandon Dunes Golf Resort should call 888-345-6008. For additional information on Bandon Dunes, please visit

This video is a satellite overview of the Bandon Dunes Golf Course.