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Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes |  | Author: Stephen Goodwin
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 426499
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1565125304
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352068795
EAN: 9781565125308
ASIN: 1565125304
Publication Date: May 19, 2006
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Product Description
This is the story of a man with a dream—as well as the vision and passion to make it come true. The dream was to build a great American links course, one that would contain all the excitement of the famous golfing destinations in Scotland and Ireland, storied places like St. Andrews and Ballybunion. The man was Mike Keiser, an entrepreneur and amateur golf enthusiast, founder of the successful company Recycled Paper Greetings, and Dream Golf is the story of how, with the help of some of the most colorful—and occasionally controversial—men in golf, he transformed a remote area on Oregon's Pacific coast into not one, but three of the most stunning, challenging, and highly ranked courses in the world.
It began modestly, when Mike Keiser decided to build a nine-hole "dunes" course and golf club on the shore of Lake Michigan, near his home in Chicago. The experience prompted him to look further, with the goal of realizing a dream that he had harbored for some time: to bring to American golfers the same kind of experience he had enjoyed while playing some of the legendary courses of the British Isles, "links" courses that had evolved naturally to fit the rugged, heaving coastal terrain. These ancient courses were the antithesis of most modern American courses, where the features were shaped by bulldozers and all too often look sleek, manicured, and artificial.
No, Bandon Dunes would be a "pure" golf experience, pitting the golfer against the elements, allowing the land to dictate the course, banning the use of carts, making the golfer feel at one with both nature and the game. To achieve that goal would take a great amount of planning and hard work, the struggle of man against nature in shaping the land into three courses that would become the Bandon Dunes complex. Conventional wisdom said it was impossible. And even if he built it, would anyone come to this remote Oregon outpost?
Dream Golf is the first complete account of how drive and determination, coupled with the best minds in the game, created a utopian golf experience in a place of breathtaking natural beauty. It is the gripping and compelling account of how one man followed his dream to its greatest conclusion.
Book Description
Mike Keiser, entrepreneur, amateur golf enthusiast, and founder of the successful company Recycled Paper Greetings, turned his unlikely dream of creating a British-style links course on Oregon’s rugged coast into one of America’s most extraordinary golf destinations. Working against the odds, and making decisions that seemed counterintuitive to most outsiders, Keiser surprised the skeptics and charmed the critics with the result of his efforts. When it opened in 1999, Bandon Dunes was instantly acclaimed one of the best courses in the world.
This book, written with Keiser’s full cooperation, is the first all-inclusive account of how he translated his passion into a reality. It reveals the difficulties he had to overcome, the personalities he encountered—most notably two of golf architecture’s most controversial figures, Scotsman David Kidd and American Tom Doak—and the goal he has achieved in creating a true golfing utopia in an astonishingly short period of time on a wild, windblown bluff high above the Pacific.
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It's About the Golf & Ocean & Dream & Architects July 25, 2006
rodboomboom (Dearborn, Michigan United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is recount of passion for golf, from perspective of a successful greeting card company owner who wants to and does build a classical Scottish style course in America.
Starting in New Buffalo, Michigan, he through his associates finds just the landscape available in Bandon, Oregon. Then secures three architects to do three eventual courses, each of which has in common a shared approach to course design which is minimalist and takes what the land gives. Neat feature of this chronicle is that author plays each of the courses with architect and some of construction staff, so even if one hasn't played this yet, feel somewhat what it would be like. So makes one plotting to take trip west to check this out.
Result is three rising courses on places to play lists. Truly us golfers can appreciate his approach, away with frills and it's all about the golf, even in the accomodations.
How neat is it the approach that Keiser developed on his Dunes Golf in Michigan that there is set of tees with no deisgnation, and the golfer with the honors chooses the teebox, kind of golfing version of HORSE.
Keiser is certainly golfer's course owner who wants the game to be the dominant factor, not a resort catering to all wishes, just golf dominated.
Great read. Those who enjoyed this might also enjoy one of my favorites: "Driving the Green" and "Bury Me in a Pot Bunker."
Great book on golf January 3, 2007
Meddie Sims (Oregon)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
First let me say that I haven't read this book. I bought it for my husband who never reads books. Never. I gave it to him when we went on vacation so he'd have something to read while laying in the sun. He read every day until he finished it. He kept regaling me with interesting facts and bits of information from the book, and he has recommended it to several friends.
Heaven On Earth August 14, 2006
Jeff W. Courter (Des Moines, IA, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is fantastic, and the only thing better than reading it was to experience Bandon Dunes in person a year ago! We were there just before Bandon Trails opened so we only got to play Bandon Dunes and Pacific Dunes. I've played Whistling Straits and have been to Pebble Beach. They're great but nothing compares to the pure golf experience at Bandon. Goodwin's fascinating story of how Bandon came to be is an incredible tribute to the vision and perseverence of Mike Keiser in building his dream.
Dream Golf July 29, 2006
Stephen Wolfe (Tucson, az)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It was a must read, if you enjoy golf on any level. I loved the way it taught you about the thought process of constructing great golf courses. You will be biten by the golf bug during the read. It is also a great story of a following your passions in life. Have a trip planned for Bandon! Can't wait!
dream golf...indeed!! August 28, 2006
J. Oden (Dayton, NV. usa)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
great book on a great place...golfers everywhere owe mike keiser a debt of gratitude for fulfilling his dream..i've had the pleasure of visiting bandon dunes a few times and can't wait to return...dream golf..indeed!!
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