The third gap, and ghost tree, at Old Macdonald at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
Evan Schiller
If you’ve been to Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, what the ghost tree is, and even should you haven’t, you continue to may know what the ghost tree is. Because let’s be trustworthy: what number of well-known golf trees are there anyway? Not many.
But the ghost tree is definitely one of them, and Bandon Dunes reported through Twitter on Wednesday that a current storm has put it in a precarious state.
“The Ghost Tree on Old Macdonald’s 3rd hole will always be a majestic symbol of Bandon,” the tweet learn. “Yesterday’s storm caused the tree to lean and our team is researching ways to stabilize it. If you are playing OM soon, please be respectful of its space and celebrate it from a safe distance.”
The Port Orford Cedar — a.ok.a the ghost tree — is on the par-4 third on the Old Macdonald course. The gap begins with a blind tee shot over a sand dune, and the road is to attract your tee shot across the ghost tree to the golf green that falls away from you. The tree may be seen from nearly each gap at Old Mac (so long as the fog doesn’t roll in).
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The tree has develop into considerably of a superstar, too, principally as a result of golfers love Bandon Dunes, and what’s to not love about a actually cool, spooky-looking tree? It even has its personal assortment in Bandon’s Pro Shop, as you should buy it on putter covers, hats, shirts, sweatshirts and extra.
The ghost tree is one of few trees in the golf world notable sufficient to put in writing about. Another semi-recent occasion was on the house of the Masters. In 2014 the well-known Eisenhower Tree at Augusta National, which guarded the seventeenth gap, suffered main injury from an ice storm and needed to be eliminated.
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