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.
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