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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 in This Issue
In our Golf Equipment Updates section, Pacific Golf takes a look at some of the leading manufacturers’ products that will be in the golf shops this year.
Callaway Hyper X Driver


After eight years in the making, Callaway engineers have sculpted a sturdier face that dramatically increases impact efficiency for greater distance on shots hit across the entire face. Called Hyperbolic Face Technology, the Callaway technicians have redefined the look, feel and speed at which golf balls leave the clubface. The 460cc head shape maintains a traditional look.
Ping G-10 Draw Driver


Improved distance, accuracy and consistency are what the Ping G10 Draw Driver offers to the player who tends to slice the ball from left-to-right. This driver promotes a right-to-left ball flight from an internal weight pad positioned farther back and closer to the heel to help club head rotation. The 460cc head features a larger profile with a taller face.
Titleist 906 F4 Fairway metal


This could be the best fairway wood Titleist has ever made. The 906 F4 is designed with a pear-shaped head that is longer from heel-to-toe, a shallow face and a square set-up that promotes a straight ball flight. A multi-material construction with a separate face insert allows for maximum ball speed and hot, lively feel at impact.
Odyssey White Hot XG Sabertooth


Featuring one of the most radical headshapes in golf, the White Hot XG Sabertooth putter utilizes high-density Dual Fangs to position more weight to the outer-most limits, helping keep the putter on-line during the stroke for accuracy.  The Aiming Channels inside the fangs make lining up putts easier, and the multi-layer White Hot XG insert generates a soft feel at impact.
Sun Mountain V1 Speed Cart


Durability, ease of use and plenty of useful gadgets are key factors in a pull cart. This sturdy, perfectly balanced and easily foldable cart is designed to position the golfer’s back, arms and shoulders in their most natural position while pushing or pulling the cart. The 2008 model includes: upgraded console tray, strapless bag brackets and an easier to fold design.

Bandon Dunes, Oregon

by Brad Ewart, eNewsletter Editor


Scottish links’ golf holes are built on weather-beaten, sandy, loamy soil that requires a deft bump-and-run approach in getting the ball close to the cup. These traditional golf settings tend to be near the ocean, routed through wild dunes of sand, littered with tall fescue grass, heather and gorse or on land that links the sea to the trees.

Thousands of impostors claim their course is a links design, but in reality there exists perhaps 160 of the true links golf experiences on the planet. Outside of the United Kingdom, there are some links-type courses in Australia, along the coast of South Africa and a few close replicas in the USA.

In the early 1990s, Mike Keiser, a wealthy American golfer keen to the traditions of the game, searched throughout North America to find a site with near-links conditions on which he could build his version of a golf resort. The search was on throughout the east coast shores, the heartland and throughout the west, but to no avail.

After an exhaustive search, Keiser found his site. In southern Oregon, just a few miles north of the California border, on a rugged coastline overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Keiser built a golf resort where true links golf and the ancient traditions of the game are part of every round.

Perched on a bluff of sand dunes, spiny gorse and coastal forest, 100-feet above the Pacific Ocean is Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. This world-class resort is home to Pacific Dunes, Bandon Dunes and Bandon Trials offering golfers 54-holes of some of the finest golf memories in the world.

Created by David McLay Kidd, Bandon Dunes opened in 1999 to international acclaim as one of the best new designs of the modern era. With views of the ocean from almost every hole and almost identical playing conditions as Scottish links golf, it has quickly gained in reputation and notoriety. Natural elements take on a new meaning at Bandon Dunes and when the wind blows, as it so often does, a golfer needs to be creative in approach and to be aware of how the elements will affect every shot.

With room to build as many as seven golf courses, development continued with the addition of Pacific Dunes in 2001. Tom Doak, one of the leading architects in the modern era of course design, created a masterpiece through the wild dunes and prickly gorse. Doak’s routing travels down to the edge of the cliffs overlooking the shoreline and crashing waves off the Pacific Ocean and then back into a landscape of wild, grassy dunes, sand and gorse.

Bandon Trails opened in 2005 is just as similar to its two sister courses as it is different. Designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, Bandon Trails starts on the top edge of the sand dunes and then plays its way down through a meadow, up into a coastal forest before finishing back in the dunes.

The ocean is not a factor at Bandon Trails as the course plays away from the coast and into the mountain trails. One can see the ocean with a view across the other two courses from the first tee and not again until the 14th hole. Bandon Trails has the reputation as the toughest course to record a good score with a par of 71 and the longest yardage of the three courses at 6,765 yards.

Don’t forget your camera, take a caddy and enjoy golf as it was meant to be.

Key Swing Thought:

On full shots, most PGA Tour players set the inside of the he≠els apart about the width of their shoulders. Their stance gradually narrows from the driver shot right down to the wedge.
Editor's Choice +
SunDOG glasses

Sundog Eyewear’s ‘Genuine Performance’ trademark was proven in 2007 by their signature genuine performers: Paula Creamer with two LPGA Tour wins, and PGA Tour wins by Mike Weir and Hunter Mahan. Multiple styles and lenses offer RISLAN Clear frame technology, 100 per cent UVA, UVB and UVC blocking, and Cristec Polarized lenses with superior and distortion-free clarity.
FEBRUARY 2008

Sun Mountain V1 Speed Cart

Durability, ease of use and plenty of useful gadgets are key factors in a pull cart.

Useful gadgets
Durability, ease of use and plenty of useful gadgets are key factors in a pull cart.

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