Old Macdonald: A Tour Of The Front 9 | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

On Wednesday night I went to a dinner at Bandon Dunes, sponsored by the Western Golf Association. (Yes, I was back at Bandon Dunes.) In attendance: Bandon owner, Mike Keiser, Pacific Dunes designer and Old Mac co-designer, Tom Doak, Bandon Trails co-designer Bill Coore and Ron Whitten, the Golf Digest architecture editor.

After dinner Whitten lead a discussion with Doak and Coore and then they answered questions from members of the WGA, who, oh by the way, raised $200,000 that week for the Evans Scholarship Foundation. (That’s the foundation that awards hundreds of scholarships to caddies every year.)

As much as I’ve been to Bandon lately (three times since September), I’ve never played all 18 at Old Mac. On Thursday I tweeted a live hole-by-hole tour via my cell phone (twitter.com/wheresmattyg), but I also promised some pictures.

Under a blue sky in the face of a three- to four-club wind, with nothing but Danny V the …