The Movie: Bandon Dunes Golf Course

“If you have been toying with the idea of taking a Bandon Dunes southern Oregon golf vacation, do yourself a favor and make your reservations sooner rather than later.

“Why? Because Golf in the Kingdom recently finished filming there, and when the movie comes out next year, every golfer not already familiar with Bandon Dunes is going to see what we’ve been saying for years: that the only thing keeping these three (soon to be four) courses from being authentic Irish/Scottish links is that they’re located in a little town on the southern coast of Oregon,” says the Golf Vacation Insider.

The Insider goes on, “As you may know, Michael Murphy’s 1972 book, Golf in the Kingdom has become a classic among golfers. The tale, which delves into the mystical and metaphysical, takes place on a golf course in Scotland, and the movie’s producers correctly determined that the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort would represent the ‘auld sod’ nicely.”

So if you are thinking of wrapping a golf vacation around your whitewater rafting vacation, you’d better be thinking now for 2010. With the economy on the upswing and signs that the market may be beginning to stabilize, finding space on the golf course and on a raft may be a bit more difficult in 2010.