Book Review of, The Nature of the Game: Links Golf at Bandon Dunes and Far Beyond by Mike Keiser with Stephen Goodwin (review)

Authors

William Lang, Portland State University

Published In

Oregon Historical Quarterly

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2023

Subjects

Book Reviews

Abstract

In 1999, Mike Keiser and his associates welcomed golfers to a new and remarkable links golf course on the southern Oregon coast near the town of Bandon. At the mouth of the Coquille River and small bay some thirty miles south of Coos Bay, Bandon had begun as a mining camp in the 1850s and developed an economy in the late nineteenth century based on fishing, logging, dairying, and cranberry cultivation. The area’s spectacular coastline brought tourists, but nothing quite prepared the town for the advent of world-class golf courses — six in total at Bandon Dunes — and an influx of golf tourists that propelled the destination resort to be an economic linchpin in Bandon.

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Locate the Document

• 10.1353/ohq.2023.0012

DOI

10.1353/ohq.2023.0012

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/40239

Citation Details

Lang, W.L. (2023). [Review of the book The Nature of the Game: Links Golf at Bandon Dunes and Far Beyond, by Mike Keiser with Stephen Goodwin]. Oregon Historical Quarterly 124(1), 108-109. doi:10.1353/ohq.2023.0012.