Are golfers getting an authentic links course experience at Bandon?
Yes. Although we claim Bandon Dunes and Pacific Dunes and Old Macdonald as links courses, we do not say that Bandon Trails is a complete links course because some of its holes are in the woods. Why the love affair with links courses? It’s golf as it’s meant to be. I know that sounds arrogant, but it goes back to St. Andrews, the first Links course, where they have been playing golf since 1200. It’s the perfect Links course. It’s the way golf should be played. In today’s dollars how much would it cost to build St. Andrews? It would probably cost $5 million. A lot of it would go to irrigate it. Slowly the golf courses in Scotland and Ireland have put in irrigation systems, but if you took that away you knock off $1.2 million from the price tag. What was the first Links course that you played? Ballybunion, which is on the southwest coast of Ireland. It is something. From the first round at Ballybunion I was hooked on links golf. That was the late 1970s. How did you find Bandon? It was all
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