Eastick Cards 71 in Gator Tourney Second Day

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The No. 47 University of Oregon women’s golf team shot a 295 – the fourth-lowest of the round - in Saturday’s second day action in the Lady Gator Invitational.

UO climb four spots into 11th place and counted scores on the par 70, 5,907-yard Mark Bostick course from sophomore Felicia Eastick (71) – the sixth lowest of Saturday, sophomore Kate Hildahl (73), freshman Erica Omlid (75) and junior Cathryn Bristow (76).

In the overall standings, Hildahl climbed seven spots and is tied for 28th overall (77-73-150), and was followed by Eastick (39th-t, 83-71-154), Bristow (50th-tie, 80-76-156), Omlid (50th-t, 81-75-156) and freshman Kendra Little (73rd-t, 85-78-163).

Junior Blair Ressler also played Saturday as an individual and her best round of the tourney moved her into a tie for 77th (88-77-165).

Overall, Florida’s Tiffany Chudy carded a one-under 70 Saturday to climb one position into the lead and owns a two-stroke advantage (69-70-139) over Louisville’s Cindy Lacrosse (69-72-14) and Gator teammates Whitney Myers (70-71-141) and Jessica Yadloczky (70-71-141) who were tied for second place. First-day leader Sydney Crane shot a 78 Saturday and fell into a tie for 11th place (66-79-145).

As a team, Florida extended its lead by three strokes (280-283-563) over No. 26 Louisville (290-286-576), Ole Miss (third, 293-292-585), No. 17 Wake Forest (301-295-596), No. 36 Georgia State (fifth, 299-301-600) and No. 34 North Carolina (sixth, 292-310-602).

Other teams in the field included South Florida (seventh, 306-302-608), No. 46 Augusta State (eighth, 305-305-610), Kentucky (ninth, 313-298-611), North Carolina-Greensboro (312-301-613) No. 47 Oregon (11th, 321-295-616), UT Chattanooga (12th, 308-310-618), Colorado (13th-tie, 312-309-621), Florida International (13th-tie, 310-311-621) and Florida Atlantic (15th, 320-311-631).

Complete results are available at the www.GolfStat.com website, and more tournament information is located at the University of Florida’s www.GatorZone.com website.

Looking ahead, the Ducks return for third and final round action Sunday.

Bandon Trails Makes Golf Magazines Top 100 Golf Courses

Bandon Trails, OR, USA
Green Keeper: Ken Nice

Bandon Trails was the third course built at the Bandon Dunes resort. As such, and with
no ocean frontage like the other two courses, one might think the course was destined
to be the least appealing of the three. Nothing is further from the truth,
as highlighted by the all-world 15th green complex.

If you were Mike Keiser, what would you do?

You have overseen the unprecedented development of two world class courses in a short period of time. Considering that you own nearly 2,500 acres, you still have plenty more property for additional golf.

What would make for the ideal third golf course? Certainly, you want it to complement the other two as opposed to compete against them. Building a third course along the cliff top is out of the question as you don�t own the property to do so. Your property includes some tumbling dunes south of the first two courses in which as many as five or so holes could be found but that�s it. Rather than stay by the coast, what if you turn inland and build a course that offers shelter from the winds that sweep across the other two courses? Golfers would likely appreciate the break in the elements as well as a change in scenery on a four day trip.

With those well thought-out ideas in mind, Keiser contacted the firm of Coore & Crenshaw to determine their interest in building such a course. Long a fan of their work at Sand Hills Golf Club for his friend Dick Youngscap, Keiser welcomed the opportunity to work with Coore & Crenshaw himself. In turn, Bill Coore had been impressed by the astonishing success of the Bandon Resort and was delighted to come inspect what land might be available.

Initially, Howard McKee, the highly respected (and admired) planner and architect for the resort, and Coore went to the area near today�s 9^th green/10^th tee. There was already road access to the general area, which was relatively level. A clubhouse and parking could have been easily and efficiently built.

Coore started walking the property and the mature fir, spruce and cedar trees were the features that first caught his eye. The land east (i.e. where no holes ended up being built) of the 9^th green/10^th tee had a few rolls - no great landforms but pleasant nonetheless.

Coore walked the property for several days, venturing farther and farther west from the potential clubhouse site. He came to Round Lake (near today�s 7^th tee) and keep walking east until he came into a meadow (where today�s 16^th hole resides). Captivated by the beauty of this portion of the property, he continued poking about and found what would eventually become two of the one shot holes, the 5^th and 17^th. Howard McKee later told Coore that this little meadow area was one of his very favorite spots on the resort�s vast property.

With evening setting in and standing on what became the 17^th green, Coore needed to return to the main lodge. There was a 500 yard strecth of dunes nearby that headed in the right general direction, so off Coore went. With each subsequent inspection of the property that week, Coore found himself repeating this same walk - the land and its features pulled him this way. Unfortunately, by doing so, he was stepping outside the loose boundaries that had been established for the third course, which is to say one that was inland and that provided respite from the wind.

Coore spoke with Keiser, who not surprisingly was open to the free exchange of ideas. With Coore now in the dunes, Keiser urged him to find more holes there. Try as he might, the property to the right of what became the 1^st fairway was triangular in nature. Potentially, there were three holes there, two of which would have been one shot holes. In the end, it felt like they were forcing the issue but today�s 1^st hole was easy for Coore to spot as was the downhill 2^nd.

However, from the spot of the 2nd green, Coore was stuck. Across the entrance road was a thick forest and Keiser had grave concerns: how could Coore & Crenshaw make the golfer want to keep playing golf? What would it take for the golfer to remain happy in leaving the thrilling dunes country after just two holes??

Like all golf architecture students, Keiser is a big admirer of Cypress Point and how Alister MacKenzie moved the golfer in and out of different landscapes. Thus Keiser knew conceptually it could be done but under no circumstances did he want the golfer to suffer a let down ala the walk from the 5^th green at Spyglass to the 6^th tee, where the golfer knows that he is leaving the inspired coastal portion of the property never to return.

The fact that the 18^th hole paralleled the 1^st hole and ran through the same magnificent dunes country helped Coore convince Keiser that no such let down would occur. Still, Coore & Crenshaw had to make something of the 3^rd hole - this would be the key moment in the evolutionary process of Bandon Trails' routing. The other playing corridors were taking shape nicely, including the site of the 14^th tee and finding the amphitheater for the 15^th green.

Keiser was familiar with Coore & Crenshaw�s work at Friar�s Head where they so successfully transitioned in and out of disparate landscapes by the use of long three shot holes. Betting that Coore & Crenshaw would find a way to do it again, Keiser signed off on the general configuration of holes that became the final routing.

As we see below, the final result is that the golfer is transported seamlessly over 300 plus sprawling acres from dunes into an expanded meadow then through a forest and back to the meadow and to one final dune hole. Only Cape Breton Highlands Links in Nova Scotia, which is also routed over a similarly vast amount of land, can compete with Bandon Trails for variety of landscapes. Apart from the tee to green walks on both courses, they also represent two of the great walks from green to tee in the game. Given how Coore relied on the deer, logging and hiking trails to maneuver around the property in the early days, and given its diverse walk through nature, Bandon Trails is an apt name, as we see below.

A wide variety of shot requirements emerged during the construction of this
Coore & Crenshaw course. Pictured above is the drivable par four 8th.

Holes to Note

1^st hole, 390 yards; The first and Home holes enjoy a pure dunesland setting with their respective fairways providing the most random bounces on the course. As with every hole at Bandon Trails, and virtually every hole that Coore & Crenshaw design, there is plenty of fairway width, though that may not be readily apparent from the tee. Like the grand master architects that preceded them during the Golden Age of golf architecture, Coore & Crenshaw give the golfer every opportunity to enjoy a bold, positive day driving the ball. The requirements asked of the golfer become more exacting the closer one gets to the green. In the case of the first, a spine divides the green into a lower and upper half with the green deeper than it appears from down in the fairway.

The approach to the 1st plays uphill through a saddle in the dunes.

2^nd hole, 215 yards; From a tee high on a dune, the golfer has a clear view of the green nestled among dunes thirty feet below. The green is on a diagonal to the golfer and the immediate problem is how to control the ball from such an exposed tee location, given the windy nature of the Oregon coastline. The green and its grass surrounds offer beautiful contrast to the dunes and the evergreen trees. The land contours are such that the wise play is often to aim left of the green and let the ball feed toward the putting surface. However, there is a rub in adopting this playing tact: the golfer can�t readily discern where the fairway ends and the putting surface starts! This superb bit of green keeping by Ken Nice is altogether unique in American golf and it is impossible to overstate Bill Coore�s enthusiasm for seeing his design presented in this manner. With the firm, tight fairways running at nearly the same speed as the greens, every imaginable recovery shot is available to the golfer, both here at the 2^nd as well as throughout the course. Some might elect to play a pitch and check shot with their Titliest Pro V1s while the traditionalists will delight in playing bump and run shots and watching the ball react to the subtle ground contours that were captured during construction.

The 2nd hole plays through dunes to a green well below the tee.

Hard to tell where the 2nd green begins or ends, thanks to the flawless
presentation by Green Keeper Ken Nice and his crew.

3^rd hole, 550 yards; As previously discussed, transitioning from the massive sand dunes of the first two holes to this portion of the property was the crucial moment. As seen at Friar�s Head, and again here, nobody is better at moving in and out of diverse landscapes than Bill Coore and as at Friar�s Head, Coore uses a long three shotter to handle the transition seamlessly, right down to exposing the sand dune that was sixty yards past the 3^rd green. Mike Keiser was rightly worried throughout construction as to how well this transition would be accomplished. Almost shockingly, this hole became one of the finest on the course and the end result clearly demonstrates that Keiser hired the right team.

Hard to believe but this was once a thick forest. The golfer's eye on the 3rd tee
is now drawn to the sandy hazards before him. As such, he hardly
notices he has left the dunes country.

Artist Josh Smith's painting of the 3rd shows how Coore pulled
the sandy contours down the length of the hole.

The imaginative bunker 90 yards shy of the 3rd green as well as the exposed sand dune
in the background make the transition from dunesland to meadow a seamless one.
David Zinkand's handiwork on the green features a clever falloff in the
back that whisks balls off the putting surface.

4^th hole, 410 yards; Coore & Crenshaw's routing of the course brilliantly captures a ridge within the 4^th fairway, and the strategy of the hole spins off that landform. Carry it and the golfer has a good view of the green. If the golfer�s drive slides to the right and fails to clear the twelve foot ridge, the approach is blind. The fairway ridge was one of the most pleasant surprises of the course's construction. Initially this area was so thick with trees and underbrush that Coore could not literally move through it. The treetops made it appear flat on the topography map. Only once a centerline cut several feet wide had been made, did this natural ridge start to make itself known. James Duncan excitedly called Coore over to the 4th fairway once the ridge's discovery was made: they knew immediately it meant the hole would have its own special playing characteristics. Indeed, Duncan's clearing of the course deserves special recognition. Take here at the 3rd and 4th holes with their connected fairways. As noted, it was originally forested but Duncan cleared it in such a natural manner, leaving no uniform or linear tree lines anywhere. In addition, he was able to pick out the trees in certain areas while not disturbing the low lying vegetation underneath. Finally, as seen in the photograph below, Duncan's leaving the clump of trees on the right of the 4th fairway combined with Jeff Bradley's bunker work underneath adds immeasurably to the hole's visual appeal.

A view from the 4th tee shows the dominant spine that runs on a diagonal from the tee.
Ideally, the tee ball carries the ridge and ....

...stays on the 30 wide yard fairway past the ridge, stopping short of the string of bunkers
cut into a far hillside. If accomplished, the golfer enjoys a view of the green for his
approach. As with the sandbelt courses in Australia, Ken Nice has the short
fairway grass feed directly into the bunkers, reversing years in America
whereby hazards have been mistakenly rung with rough. As presented by
Nice, the fairway bunkers play larger than their actual footprint,
gathering balls into them from well away.

5^th hole, 135 yards; As first appreciated in 1990 with Coore & Crenshaw�s design at Kapalua Plantation, the two architects will do all they can to avoid forced carries to greens or at the very least provide alternative routes. If Coore & Crenshaw expire all options and there is no alternative but to create a forced carry to a green, they will likely ala the 8^th at Kapalua opt for a one shot hole. By doing so, they guarantee the golfer a level stance and perfect lie to best prepare him to tackle the forced carry. In the case here at the 5^th, the natural feature of the gully was an obvious attraction to Coore as he walked the property in search of the ideal routing. He opted to keep this one shotter modest in length and the three bunkers carved out of the gully�s far bank highlight and enhance the terrain�s brawny nature. However, the hole�s primary defense is its putting green. Along with the monstrous 11^th green, this one at 48 yards long is the biggest on the course and features the boldest interior contours. Highly unusual to find a short hole with such a big green, it nonetheless places great emphasis on accuracy as the tee ball must find itself relatively near the hole, be the day�s hole location up front where the green is narrow, or left on top of a ridge or well back right. Otherwise, a three putt (or worse!) is almost the assured outcome. So good is the green and its playing qualities that the author places this hole with any of the world�s finest holes of similar length, including the 9^th at Myopia Hunt Club (a particular favorite of Mike Keiser�s) and the 15^th at Cypress Point. In its own way, the bold contours within the large green place similar demands on the golfer�s short iron tee ball as the 6^th at National Golf Links of America, a particular favorite of Ben Crenshaw�s.

Even from this view from the tee, the contours within the 5th green are evident.

As seen from the left front of the 5th green, the green is high in the front before giving
way one and half feet to a lower middle and then rising nearly four feet to the back
edge. According to Coore, 'I'm sure people think we made it up
but the landforms were just there.'

Bandon Dunes Makes Golf Magazines Top 50 Golf Courses

Bandon Dunes, OR, USA

8^th hole, 360 yards; A clever hole with five cross bunkers to contend with some 200 yards from the tee. The exceedingly wide fairway beyond encourages the player to open his shoulders. Now the architect has the player, for the approach is much easier from the right side - where there is a bunker - thanks to the slope off the front left greenside bunker. The eighth is a refreshing and original hole and its back left hole location is one of the best hole locations of the resort's fifty-four holes.

The challenge off the eighth tee is evident.

10th hole, 360 yards; The tenth has a wonderful golf quality that is too rarely seen, the kind of hole in that there is no one right way to play it. Though the ocean holes get the attention for all the obvious reasons, the interior holes at Bandon Dunes best display Kidd's talents. Though plenty of dirt was moved to create the 10th, a number of interesting angles are the worthwhile result. The best angle into the green is from the left edge of the fairway but on the other hand, the shortest route to the green is straight ahead off the tee. You decide, and the odds are that during your stay, you will experiment with the different approach angles into the green. The strategy is reminiscent of Riviera�s all-world 10th hole and anytime that is drawn on as inspiration, promising golf follows.

Kidd's use of angles makes the tenth an intelligent short par four. As seen above,
the shorter route leaves a blind approach.

11^th hole, 385 yards; With a bunkering scheme evocative of the 12th at Sunningdale Old, Kidd tries to lull the golfer to play to the right on both his tee ball and approach shot, and from either location, Kidd's trap is sprung. There are a series of bunkers down the left hand side of the fairway and miles of room to the right but the angle from the right into the green is a miserable one as the right front greenside bunker must be contended with and the green is pitched from right to left and runs away from the player. The one bunker guarding the front-right corner of the green dominates the approach and the cautious player is tempted to play to the right where little trouble seems to lurk. Of course, once there, his flop pitch is desperately difficult as he must get it up on top of the ridge while stopping it on the green which runs away from him.

The closer the tee ball comes to these bunkers down the left of the twelfth fairway,
the better one's angle is into the right to left sloping green.

12^th hole, 200 yards; A good example of Scottish frugality, this time with bunkering. There is but one bunker here, but that is all the player sees, thanks to its steep revetted face. The green is similar to the Road Hole with both the angle of the green and the key bunker. The cliff makes an altogether satisfactory replacement for the hazard of the road, although it is not as close to the green.

As seen from the right, the single bunker dominates the play at the one shot twelfth.

14^th hole, 360 yards; Kidd's favorite hole and yet another appealing two shotter under 400 yards. A precise tee shot needs to carry a bunker some 205 yards from the tee that is smack in the middle of the fairway while still staying short of or to the side of another fairway bunker at the 235 yard mark. On top of that, the hole plays into the prevailing wind. The angled green is tucked against the hillside and offers the best approach from the left.

The attractive backdrop to the 14th green.

15^th hole, 185 yards; As with the 11th and 12th, one bunker dominates the green. At 14 feet deep, this green side bunker also happens to be the deepest one on the course. The green sits on top of an exposed knob and offers no help whatsoever to those who miss the green. It would not be difficult to imagine the golfer having difficulty finding the green with their first shot, let alone their second. Great satisfaction follows a well struck shot, especially since the hole was further enhanced when the tee was moved twenty yards to the right during the winter of 2000/2001.

The difficult uphill 15th, with the challenging greenside bunker guarding the front right.

16^th hole, 365 yards; A rarity, in the sense that the hole definitely plays better in a particular wind direction. In this case, that is downwind and there is simply no more thrilling shot at the resort than trying to drive the green with a favorable breeze helping. Watching a ball in line with the cliffside trying to navigate successfully to the green is a treat. Although a superb drive is required, the green is open from this angle and fairly receptive. Conversely, for the average golfer or if its into the wind, the second shot becomes the focus of the hole after a lay up off the tee to the fairway. The single pot bunker that is flush against the center of the green dictates the approach, depending on the angle of approach. The further towards the cliff the tee ball is played, the more open (but blind) the approach is. From the left side the golfer stares at the throat of the bunker and must decide whether their wedge play is sharp enough to try to carry the bunker to a middle or left pin, or play to the wide part of this large green. Once again, what the bunkers lack in size, they make up for in bite and can easily help ratchet up the score.

The stunning 16th hole, the golfers last taste of the Pacific.

In hindsight, Bandon Dunes faced a difficult task of maintaining its initial acclaim when golf's top two architectural firms (Doak's Renascence and Coore & Crenshaw) followed it with the second and third courses at the resort. For instance, Coore's tremendous routing at Bandon Trails highlights some of the routing weakness at Bandon Dunes. Given that there was no real estate concerns and a relatively blank canvas, the golfer is faced with several regretable long tee to green walks at Bandon Dunes. More importantly, the starting and finishing points of the first, ninth and and eighteenth holes are the least distinctive holes on the course.

Fortunately, Kidd continues to refine Bandon Dunes (ironically, a sign that it wasn't as good as everyone initially thought). In the winter of 2000/2001 alone, the second and sixth green complexes were grassed in and made more playable, the ninth and 15th tees were relocated to their ideal locations, and the 17th fairway and its bunkering was dramatically enhanced down the left hand side. Kidd�s ability to implement strategic golf holes and effective use of bunkers show the promise that lies ahead in a career that has already led him to several other wonderful commissions throughout the world.

Pacific Dunes Named Top 10 Golf Course in America by Golf Magazine

Pacific Dunes, OR, USA
Green Keeper: Jeff Sutherland

14^th hole, 135 yards; Hitting from one dune across a valley to a green which was found by lopping off the top of another dune, this is an altogether clever hole with everything falling away from the plateau green. Any ball that fails to find its mark may well end up fifteen or more yards from the green.

The 14th plays along a ridge line with trouble (often severe) both right and left. This is
the golfer's last view of the ocean as the course turns inland for the final four holes.

15^th, 540 yards; Along with the 12^th, the 15^th was the hole that always concerned Keiser as the golfer for the last time must cross the plain. Coupled with the fact that the golfer is leaving behind the ocean for good, no one wanted there to be any sense of a let down. There won�t be, as this hole offers that rare example of a hole that plays almost quite well whether downwind or into the wind. The green is loosely modeled after the Foxy Hole at Royal Dornoch. Downwind the golfer will need to squeeze his drive into a narrow neck to have a chance of reaching it in two and the sense of bounding a long-iron up onto the plateau green makes for fine drama. Into the wind, the fairway is an obstacle course as the player must negotiate a number of bunkers, the primary one of which is one smack in the middle of the fairway some 90 yards short of the green.

The view from the 15th tee shows the nest of bunkers 220 to 90 yards from
the green with which the golfer hopes to get past in two. Tne last one at
90 yards from the green is in the middle of the fairway.

As this view from the 16th tee shows, there is no need for greenside bunkering on the 15th.
The property for the fourth course (Old Macdonald) is in the distance.

16^th hole, 340 yards; A favorite kind of hole, where the sight of the flag to the right lures the golfer further in that direction than is wise. In fact, the ideal play into this angled green is from the far outside of the dogleg, a tact that Renaissance also employed with great success at the 5^th at Riverfront GC. In this case, the difficulty is compounded by one of the lumpiest fairways on the course and a short iron from an awkward stance is never a bargain. The green is on a natural shelf at the base of a sand dune and in a similar vien to the 6^th, a birdie will prove far more elusive than the yardage indicates. With the wind from the north (behind and left to right), the player may also bash his drive near the green, taking his chances on getting a decent lie and stance in the hollow short and right of the green. From there, though, the 30-yard pitch is difficult enough to have players argue as to whether they would rather be 100 yards out in the fairway or 20 yards short of the green. The aspect of having appealing two shotters under 350 yards was foremost in Doak�s mind when he routed the course. Many of his favorite courses in the world � Crystal Downs, St. Andrews Old, Royal Melbourne West, Pine Valley � have such holes and Doak was determined for this to be the case at Pacific Dunes as well.

Finding a level stance is part of the challenge to approaching the 16th green.

The wonderful shelf green at the 16th, the angle of which suggests
that approaches be played to it from the outside of the dogleg.

As the approach to the 16th is typically downwind, a 'good' pitch will often land short of
the center of the green only to find this back bunker to the left of the green.

17^th hole, 210 yards; Located in a sea of gorse, this one shotter is visually impressive. The four degree right to left slope in the 8,500 square foot green coupled with the ten foot deep left front bunker create much of a classic Redan dilemma. Considering that the vast majority of modern courses that are built in windy environs put too much of a strain on the average golfer, Doak cleared a wide area to the right of the green so that the hole remains playable in even the summer winds. However, for those who like to see the screws tightened on the penultimate hole, some will lament the absence of the back right bunkering normally associated with a classic Redan.

The dramatic 17th: the play is over the bunker in the foreground
(which is 40 yards short of the green) and then let the right
to left slope of the land do the rest of the work.

18^th hole, 590 yards; Played through a valley between two dunes, Don Placek�s detailed bunkering work makes the hole. Of special interest is the unique green side bunker that visually appears as one with another one that is actually sixty yards away on the far hillside. Such artistry is rarely found in golf architecture today and comes when the architect has his best people on site for as long as possible.

Placek's bunkering makes the 18th hole.

Having looked at the holes individually, one interesting aspect of the course is found in studying its routing: the lumpy, bumpy 1^st and 2^nd fairways which lead to the plain that the 3^rd, 4^th, and 6^th fairways are on before returning to the dune country for the 8^th and 9^th holes. The back nine enjoys the same change of pace: the par five 12^th fairway shares the same plain as the 3^rd and 4^th and leads the golfer into the dunes for the mighty 13^th with its heaving fairway. However, the 15^th fairway returns again across the once gorse filled plain and leads to two of the lumpiest fairways on the course, the 16^th and 18^th. Such to-ing and fro-ing is nothing short of ideal. Doak used three of the three-shotters (3, 12, and 15) to chew up the plain.

Given that Pacific Dunes enjoys one of the thirty or so finest sites ever for a golf course, does the design equal the setting? Absolutely, as is partially evidenced by its world top twenty status by GOLF Magazine. In the past, the quality of some of Doak's designs have been undermined by poor maintenance practices (e.g. Lost Dunes is consistently too wet while Apache Stronghold suffers from poor turf quality). Mercifully for Doak, here on one of his greatest canvases, he was blessed with an excellent green keeping crew right from the start. Green Keepers Troy Russell and Ken Nice originally oversaw the grow-in and the green keeping for its first several years. When Nice assumed responsibilities for the sister course Bandon Trails, Jeff Sutherland stepped in. The end result is that these three men and their crew have achieved uniform fast and firm playing conditions throughout. The golfer has multiple options on how to play his approach shot into such greens as the second, fifth and eighth. Whether he elects to bank the ball off the short grass that surrounds these greens or play toward the middle of the greens in a more conventional manner, all options are available to him. In addition, the firm conditions allow Pacific Dunes to provide the raw challenge associated with the world's finest links. If greens like the sixth and sixteenth were soft and holding, the course's requirement for precise approach shots would be diluted. Fortunately, such is not the case. The right men are in place and the fast playing conditions throughout the course are as good as any in the United States, allowing this design to reach its full potential.

Bill Coore made the most meaningful remark about Pacific Dunes when he said to a group of architects in March, 2001, 'Pacific Dunes is the highest compliment to golf course architecture and it is what we should all strive for.' Every student of architecture � as well as every golfer � needs to make the trip to see how special golf can be when the design equals its glorious setting.

The craftmanship and strategy on offer at Pacific Dunes is the equal of its setting.
This bunker complex is between the 4th and 12th fairways.

Oregon Golf's Eight-place Finish At Hawaii-Hilo Best Since 2001

(UWIRE) EUGENE, Ore. — The Oregon men’s golf team shot a combined 5-under-par last week at the University of Hawaii-Hilo Intercollegiate, good for an eighth-place finish. The finish was the Ducks’ best at the tournament since finishing fourth in 2001.

For Oregon, Pa’auilo, Hawaii native Sean Maekawa led the way, shooting an even par 70 in the final round to finish tied for No. 23 at 1-under-par. He was followed by fellow freshmen Jack Dukeminier and Isaiah Telles, who both shot 1-over-par in the final round to finish tied for No. 26 at even par for the tournament.

Senior Joey Benedetti shot a final round 70 to finish 39th and Derek Sipe shot the Ducks’ low round of the last day at 69 to finish 47th.

No. 10 Stanford shot a combined 27-under-par to win the event for the second year in a row, edging out No. 8 USC and Arizona State by three strokes. Sun Devil Jesper Kennegard won the individual honors with a final round 66 to finish at 13-under-par for the tournament.