Mike Keiser buys 1,215 acres north of the town of Bandon, Oregon, for $2.4 million. The purchase included two miles of coastline on the Pacific Ocean.
Bandon Dunes Resort receives final approval from the Coos County Board of Commissioners to build the golf resort.
Bandon Dunes, a David McLay Kidd design, opens as the resort’s first golf course.
Bandon’s first lodge opens.
Pacific Dunes, a Tom Doak design and the resort’s second course, opens.
Bandon Trails, a Bill Coore-Ben Crenshaw design and the resort’s third course, opens.
Bandon hosts its first USGA event as the Americans defeat Great Britain and Ireland in the biennial Curtis Cup amateur women’s matches at Pacific Dunes. (To date, the resort has hosted seven USGA championships and is slated to be the site for 13 more through 2045.)
Howard McKee, who was Mike Keiser’s partner and adviser and the namesake for McKee’s Pub, dies.
Old Macdonald, a tribute to Charles Blair Macdonald on which Doak and Jim Urbina collaborated, opens as the fourth course.
Bandon Preserve, a 13-hole par-3 course designed by Coore and Crenshaw, opens as the resort’s fifth layout. … That same year, Keiser creates the Wild Rivers Coast Alliance, with all net proceeds from the new course going to community giving.
The Punchbowl, a 100,000-square-foot, 18-hole putting course designed by Doak and Urbina, opens next to the first tee and clubhouse at Pacific Dunes.
Sheep Ranch, a Coore-Crenshaw creation with one mile of ocean frontage and nine greens along the Pacific, opens as the resort’s sixth course.
Shorty’s, a 19-hole par-3 course named in honor of Shorty Dow, the property’s first caretaker, opens.
Steve Harmon and John Steinbreder