The sister course of Bandon Dunes on the Southern Oregon Coast, Pacific Dunes took the golfing scene by storm with its opening in 2001. In many critics' eyes, it has even surpassed the much-acclaimed Bandon Dunes course, and may be the only course in the U.S. that plays like the true "links" courses of Great Britain & Ireland (right down to the gorse-covered dunes). The cliffside holes like #4, #11 and #13 get most of the acclaim (and rightly so), but it is the unique and quirky features like the 6th green, the alternating 9th greens, the right- greenside bunker at #18, and the central fairway bunkering at #2-3 that really give Pacific Dunes its character.