Bandon's caddies know where the "Keiser" tees are.
If helpful advice, swing tips and fatigue reduction aren’t reasons enough to take a caddy on a Bandon Dunes Golf Vacation, here’s another one: they can tip you off about where to find the course’s secret tees that you’d never know were there.
As part of our recently published insider’s guide, called Planning the Ultimate Bandon Dunes Golf Vacation we conducted exclusive interviews with the architects of all three of Bandon Dunes Resort’s courses.
In the one with Bandon Dunes architect David McLay Kidd, he reveals that Bandon Dunes owner Mike Keiser had him construct a few extra, strategically placed tees for his personal enjoyment of the course.
The following is an excerpt:
“Yeah, but this is a really cool spot,” he’d say again. “Okay,” I’d say. “I’ll build a tee just for you.”
You will absolutely, guaranteed, not see them, but many caddies know where they are.
Get a good one (you should request a “senior caddie” for the duration of your Bandon Dunes golf vacation) and you, too, can play like you own the place.
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The “senior” caddy is a hoax. Senior caddies are interested in one thing; money! All they want is to turn and burn a dub dub 36. Ya, I know the lingo because I caddied at Bandon Dunes for over 6 years. Sure some of the designated senior caddies are great, but I can promise you that 90% of the caddies who have not “earned” their senior badges are just as talented (if not more so) than the so called senior caddies. To say that you should request a senior caddy is nieve, ignorant, and disrespectful to the countless caddies who have spent years waking up at 4AM to sign a ‘free agent’ list, only to find that the only work appointed to them is a one day single bag teeing off at 3:30PM.
When people are spending their hard-earned money on an expensive resort they’ve never been to before, they may not want to take a chance on the other 10% you mentioned (and I’m guessing the percentage is actually higher). When you need a doctor, do you pass up the guy who has been recommended and board certified in favor of an unknown who MIGHT be “just as good?” Right.