Our Picks for The 10 Best Golf courses in Oregon
1. Bandon Dunes (Pacific Dunes)
Address: 57744 Round Lake Rd., Bandon, Oregon 97411, Coos County
Type of field: Links
Course access: Semi-Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 142
Course Rating: 73
Total par (men’s tees): 71
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,633
Scorecard: Link
Designed by Tom Doak and opened in 2001. This is the second course constructed at Bandon Dunes Resort and the highest ranked among the resort’s four 18s. Pacific Dunes is considered by many to be the best course at the fabulous Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
2. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Bandon Dunes)
Address: 57744 Round Lake Drive, Bandon, Oregon 97411, USA
Type of field: Links
Course access: Public
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 145
Course Rating: 74.6
Total par (men’s tees): 72
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,732
Scorecard: Link
The first course at the resort, Bandon Dunes, opened on May 19, 1999. Bandon Dunes was designed by Scotsman David McLay Kidd and it instantly garnered high praise. The course was one of Kidd’s early efforts in designing a golf course.
3. Bandon Dunes (Old Macdonald)
Address: 57744 Round Lake Rd., Bandon, Oregon 97411, Coos County
Type of field: Links
Course access: Semi-Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 131
Course Rating: 74.4
Total par (men’s tees): 71
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,944
Scorecard: Link
The fourth course, Old Macdonald, was designed by a team led by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina. It opened in June 2010. Old Macdonald, has been built in the architectural spirit of Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor. Macdonald is widely regarded as the Father of American golf course architecture, designing the momentous National Golf Links of America.
4. Bandon Dunes (Bandon Trails)
Address: 57744 Round Lake Rd., Bandon, Oregon 97411, Coos County
Type of field: Links
Course access: Semi-Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 130
Course Rating: 73.6
Total par (men’s tees): 71
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,788
Scorecard: Link
The resort’s third course, Bandon Trails, was designed by the team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Bandon Trails opened on June 1, 2005. Upon its opening, Golf Odyssey, the preeminent newsletter devoted to golf travel, named Bandon Dunes, The Best Place on the Planet for Golf.
5. Pronghorn Club (Fazio)
Address: 65765 Pronghorn Club Dr, Bend, OR 97701, USA
Type of field: Desert
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 142
Course Rating: 75.2
Total par (men’s tees): 72
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,456
Scorecard: Link
This masterful Tom Fazio-designed course blends the challenge of championship golf with the inherent aesthetics of the natural terrain. The private Fazio course opened in 2006. Architect Tom Fazio has used the fascinating, petrified landscape to create a dramatic Fazio signature golf course.
6. Waverley Country Club
Address: 1100 South East Waverly Drive, Portland, Oregon (OR) 97222, USA
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 119
Course Rating: 71.6
Total par (men’s tees): 72
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,653
Scorecard: Link
7. Pronghorn Club (Nicklaus)
Address: 65600 Pronghorn Club Dr, Bend, Oregon 97701, Deschutes County
Type of field: Links
Course access: Public
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 148
Course Rating: 75
Total par (men’s tees): 72
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,379
Scorecard: Link
Waverley Country Club was founded in 1896, it was only the second private golf club established west of the Mississippi River. Chandler Egan redesigned and improved the layout soon after he became an honorary member in 1913. Laid out on a tight parcel of land beside the Williamette River, the course has hosted a raft of prestigious USGA tournaments down the years, including three US Women’s Amateur Championships (1952, 1981 and 2000).
8. Silvies Valley Ranch (Craddock)
Address: 10000 Rendezvous Lane, Seneca, Oregon (OR) 97873, USA
Type of field: Links
Course access: Public
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 120
Course Rating: 71.9
Total par (men’s tees): 72
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,035
Scorecard: Link
The first Jack Nicklaus Signature Course in Oregon. The Nicklaus course will also be the first “desert-style” golfing experience in the Northwest. The Jack Nicklaus Signature course was first to open in 2004 and it was joined four years later by a Pronghorn Fazio-designed layout. Established as a logging town by early settlers in the early 1900s, Bend has evolved into a modern recreational centre.
9. Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club (Witch Hollow)
Address: 12930 NW Old Pumpkin Ridge Rd, North Plains, OR 97133, USA
Type of field: Links
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 144
Course Rating: 75.1
Total par (men’s tees): 72
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,017
Scorecard: Link
Silvies Valley Ranch, founded in 1883, is an ecologically sustainable Western livestock ranch with abundant herds of healthy wildlife, cattle and goats. The Craddock, named for the Craddock family – John “Jake” Craddock and his four sons.
10. Silvies Valley Ranch (Hankins)
Address: 10000 Rendezvous Lane, Seneca, Oregon 97873, Grant County,
Type of field: Links
Course access: Public
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 120
Course Rating: 71.8
Total par (men’s tees): 73
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,075
Scorecard: Link
In 1992 when the Witch Hollow course opened, Golf Digest selected it as the second best new private course of the year. This 18 hole course was designed by Robert E. Cupp. Golf Magazine in 2005 and 2006 rated it as one of the 100 best modern course in America.
