Beyond Bandon

Yes, Virginia (or wherever you’re coming from), there’s a lot more to golf in Oregon than that rightfully vaunted resort Long before flagsticks fluttered in the Oregon coastal winds, a pair of high-handicap drifters named Lewis and Clark surveyed the virginal future fairways of the Pacific Northwest. “Ocean in view!” exclaimed the latter in 1805, […]

Columbia Edgewater Country Club

In 1948, 23 years after it opened on flattish, wooded ground five miles northeast of downtown Portland, this gorgeous A.V. Macan design was almost destroyed by an epic flood that wiped out the nearby city of Vanport. A major tree-planting program that added 300 sequoias to the landscape helped save the course to which Macan […]