Bandon 2026

Old Macdonald: Doak and Urbina's 2010 tribute to C.B. Macdonald's template holes — Redan, Biarritz, Sahara, Punchbowl — with the largest greens most golfers will ever three-putt. Being on the green is a location, not an achievement.

Dropped July 14, 2026

Pacific Dunes — Tom Doak's 2001 masterpiece and the perennial number-one public course in America. Sixty-six hundred yards of wind, blowout bunkers, and four par threes on the back nine. The boys get her twice, including the trip finale.

Dropped July 13, 2026

Bandon Trails: no ocean, no excuses. Coore and Crenshaw's 2005 walkabout through dunes, meadow, and forest — the quiet course that files your scorecard under tragedy. Featuring the fourteenth, three hundred yards of pure malice.

Dropped July 12, 2026

Sheep Ranch at seven in the morning — Coore and Crenshaw's cliff-edge stunner with nine greens on the ocean and not a single bunker on the property. The wind does the punishing. Lundie booked the dawn patrol; the group may never forgive him.

Dropped July 11, 2026

Course briefing number one: Bandon Dunes, David McLay Kidd's 1999 original — gorse, fescue, and the cliff-top sixteenth. The boys play it twice, and Smooth Jazz gets his first look at the Pacific from the fourth. Bring tissues.

Dropped July 10, 2026

Nigel returns. Four men, five days, eight rounds on the Oregon coast. Lundie holds the itinerary, Mangan holds the low handicap, F'ing Simons holds the Texas passport — and Smooth Jazz, bless him, has never seen Bandon. Skins, quota, and consequences await.

Dropped July 9, 2026