Sand Hills Golf Club
TrophyThe remote Nebraska dunes course that launched the modern minimalist movement. A pilgrimage for purists who can wrangle the invitation to the middle of nowhere.
Private — log it if you’ve played
Roamward Golf · Architect
Coore & Crenshaw
The minimalists who let the land lead — Sand Hills, Streamsong Red, and the gentle genius of Bandon Trails and Sheep Ranch.
6 Coore & Crenshaw courses in the catalog — mark the ones you’ve played and chase the set.
Where Coore & Crenshaw built
Portfolio atlas
6 courses across 4 states · densest in Oregon (3). a regional run — a road trip or two covers it.
Courses6
Scope4 states
Playable5
Trophy1
5 play 1 private trophy
Where minimalism was reborn
Bandon Preserve
$$$$$A 13-hole par-3 course with full ocean views whose proceeds fund coastal conservation. The most fun you can have in an hour and a half of golf.
Bandon Trails
$$$$$The inland counterpoint to Bandon's ocean links, traveling through dunes, forest, and meadow. Coore and Crenshaw's variety makes it many regulars' quiet favorite.
Sheep Ranch
$$$$$The newest big course at Bandon, with nine greens perched on the bluff edge and over a mile of coastline. No bunkers, no shelter, just you and the Pacific wind.
Streamsong Red
$$$$Coore and Crenshaw carved this out of old phosphate-mining land, and it plays like windswept links 70 miles from any ocean. Rolling fairways, wild greens, and not a house in sight.
We-Ko-Pa Saguaro
$$$$A Coore and Crenshaw walk through untouched Sonoran Desert with not a single home in sight. The minimalist routing feels like golf the way the land intended it.
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