Golfers are taking part in 72 holes at Bandon Dunes Tuesday.
Evan Schiller
U.S. Open Qualifying is usually referred to by Golf Channel as “Golf’s Longest Day,” however golf’s precise longest day is happening Tuesday on the southeastern coast of Oregon.
Only this model is much less of a grind and extra a celebration of the sickest of golf sickos.
While the precise summer time solstice, the longest day of the yr within the northern hemisphere and the astronomical begin of summer time, is Thursday, greater than 100 golfers at Bandon Dunes are getting the celebration began early with the 14th annual Bandon Solstice.
With first-round tee instances beginning at 5:25 a.m. PDT (earlier than Tuesday’s official dawn at Bandon of 5:37 a.m.), every Bandon Solstice participant will play 72 holes of golf Tuesday on 4 of the resort’s 5 programs.
For this yr’s Bandon Solstice, teams are taking part in Bandon Dunes, Bandon Trails, Old MacDonald and Sheep Ranch, that are all inside GOLF’s Top 100 U.S. Courses listing. The foursomes every begin on totally different programs, with two waves going off the back and front nines of the Bandon Dunes golf course and work their across the 4 programs.
The day begins with a breakfast buffet at 4:30 a.m. (!!!) and consists of lunch after your second spherical. You know what they are saying, nothing hits just like the mid-round sizzling canine, particularly when “mid-round” is after your thirty sixth gap of the day.
Groups usually end all 4 rounds round 8 to eight:30 p.m., earlier than Tuesday’s sundown of 9 p.m. PT. Perhaps there’s even sufficient time for gamers to have an “E9” placing contest on the resort’s Punchbowl placing course. That is if they will nonetheless stand after all.
That provides as much as a reasonably stout tempo. For the 2017 Bandon Solstice, the resort mentioned rounds had been accomplished in a few 3-hour-and-15-minute tempo.
All the programs at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, defined
Josh Sens
Luckily, gamers usually don’t carry their very own luggage. One of the resort’s proficient caddies will carry two luggage for two rounds after which get replaced. It nonetheless finally ends up being a reasonably profitable day for them because the caddie charge is $100 per bag, per spherical, plus gratuity.
Think you’ve the stamina to go 4 rounds at Bandon in a single? It doesn’t come low cost. Prices for this yr’s Bandon Solstice had been $2,005 per particular person for a double occupancy room and $2,345 per particular person for a single occupancy room or a shared two-bedroom loft. That’s along with the caddies.
That bundle comes with two nights of lodging for the evening earlier than the event and the evening of, a welcome reception and dinner the evening earlier than, 4 rounds of golf for the event, breakfast the morning of the event and the morning after and dinner after the event.
You can register as a twosome or a foursome and so long as particular person from every foursome fills out a registration, you possibly can enter as many foursomes as you want, you simply higher do it quick. Last yr, registration passed off in mid-November and the event was bought out inside minutes.
If you do occur to enroll, simply bear in mind, this author, who throughout his only go to to the resort performed simply one of many 18-hole golf programs, is accessible if you happen to want a fourth.
