Bandon Muni And Sheep Ranch Updates
/Ron Bellamy gets the latest on Bandon muni to be designed by Gil Hanse and his plans for the Sheep Ranch course evolving into a full 18-holes.
Keiser said construction could start “sometime in the next year would be my hope and my best guess,” and would take two years to complete. He expressed hope the course could be available for preview play late in 2018, and open in 2019.
And there was this about expanding the Sheep Ranch, though he has no timetable:
Keiser also said that one day he hopes to fully develop the Bally Bandon Sheep Ranch — the under-the-radar, restricted-access 13-greens course on spectacular ocean-front land just north of the Bandon Dunes resort. The course is co-owned by his longtime business partner, Phil Friedmann, and is a rustic, appointment-only course with no amenities, well-kept greens and wonderful views.
Keiser said there are 400 acres available on the site, ample room for the course he’d like to develop.
“I don’t have a good guess as to when that would be,” he said. “Right now, it’s 13 greens in a pasture. Eventually, it will be 18 holes on a mile-and-a-half of ocean frontage. So eventually, it will be exciting.”
