BANDON, OREGON | Old Macdonald, perhaps
the most heralded new course to open in the
United States in this millenium, was christened
last Tuesday in a customary and significant way:
The local barber played in the first foursome.
If Old Macdonald is an homage to seminal
American golf figure C.B. Macdonald, then the
presence of Mick Peters in the first foursome
on the first official day was a similar bow to
“Old Mac” owner Mike Keiser’s commitment to
the Bandon community and what Keiser calls
the “retail golfer.”
Symbolic of that commitment at Keiser’s
Bandon Dunes Resort has been the presence
of Peters, who has been cutting hair in Bandon
for 42 years, on the first tee in the first group at
the opening of Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes,
Bandon Trails and, now, Old Macdonald.
“I’ve been a hacker, more or less, the whole
time,” the 65-year-old Peters said after his
round. “But the people at Bandon Dunes make
you feel like you’re special when you step on
the grounds. It’s a small town here, but they
make you feel like you’re somebody.”
It won’t be long before golf cognoscenti beat
a path to Old Macdonald, a soaring Tom Doak-
Jim Urbina design that effortlesly lives up to an
avalanche of positive advance billing. By then Pe-
ters, a high-handicapper, will be back shearing
the locks of the locals at Mick’s Hair Surgeons.
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