going back to the original post...At most resorts there seems to be a pecking order among courses, which is reinforced by advertising, pricing and/or policies. Innisbrook has a good and a less good course. Doral has a good, a less good and several that have not been updated at all. TPC Sawgrass has one people travel to get to and one they get stuck playing.
Even Kohler has played up Whistling vs. the Blackwolf Run courses.
so nobody to my knowledge, tries to sell two courses as equal, much less four, the way Bandon does. Maybe dorado, but they dont sell these as championship courses.
At Bandon, i think that some of the move away from Dunes, if there is some, is due to the newness "buzz" of Trails and Old Mac. Also think that Pac Dunes' ranking, and the fact that it is shorter on the back side, create some demand to play that.
I found Dunes to be the most difficult of the four to appreciate--i.e. understand where to play shots in order to create different options. Also found it less fun as i was hitting longer clubs there than i did on the back side at Pacific. But i also felt that if i had 10 rounds in on Dunes, i'd have a better appreciation of the course--ididint feel like i needed that much time on Pac Dunes or the others. And if people are playing one-two rounds on each, then Dunes gets shortchaged by this.