Bandon book due out in May

[Dale_McCallon]

Not sure this has been talked about much here on site, but the book Dream Golf:  Making of Bandon Dunes is now available for preorder on Amazon.

Book description sounds like author had full cooperation from Mr Keiser.  Really sounds like a good read.

[mikes1160]

Here is a link to the publisher's site.....I wonder if some of the scribes on this site know Stephen Goodwin, the author

http://www.algonquinbooks.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?1565125304

[Brad Klein]

Goodwin's Bandon book is wonderful, very readable, with very interesting portrayals of Keiser and others, and unusually sophisticated in its treatment of golf course architecture.

[Jimmy Muratt]

I'm curious as to if the release of Goodwin's book will influence the long in-the-works "Making of Pacific Dunes" by Tom Doak.

Tom, any news or timeframe on the book?  I remember a while back you said that you envisioned a book similar to the Shadow Creek book, which features excellent hole-by-hole coverage by both Fazio and Steve Wynn.  

[Tom_Doak]

Jimmy:  As I've mentioned here before, I refrained from finishing my book on Pacific Dunes while Steve Goodwin's book was on the horizon, per Mr. Keiser's wishes.  Steve spent a bunch of time interviewing myself and Jim Urbina and Ken Nice and Troy and Tony Russell, so there are a lot of stories about Pacific Dunes in Steve's book which I did not save for my own.

So, now I must wonder if there is room for another book on the golf course.  Steve's book doesn't have too much in the way of "souvenir photography" (or at least the review copy I saw did not), so I could make my book more about the strategy of the holes and pictorial in nature -- but I will be disappointed not to tell the story behind it, and yet I don't want to repeat things which are already told elsewhere.

Nonetheless, the main thing which is holding me back from finishing my book is other projects -- Mexico and Scotland and Montana this summer, and a few more cool projects to announce soon.

[Robert Thompson]

I found Goodwin's book fascinating, but I wonder if it just fascinated me. I'm interested in the business and the golf architecture side -- but I'm not sure that's the interests of the general public. Nonetheless, the book was a breezy read, and great fun. I hope it does well.

[Troy Alderson]

Tom,

IMHO, I would not be too worried about repeating what is said in Goodwin's book.  It's your design of Pacific Dunes and my favorite, let the pen flow.  Golfers will love to read what you have to say about the golf course, it's design, and strategy.

Where in Montana are you building?

Troy Alderson
GC Supt
Kah-Nee-Ta Resort GC

[ed_getka]

Tom,
   I for one will buy your book if you decide to complete it. As a matter of fact I'll buy at least 3 so I have a few to give as gifts. A hole by hole of what you designed and what your intent was given various winds, etc.. would be much appreciated. I suppose you could think of it as a yardage book of sorts, but by someone who actually knows what they are talking about.
    Any backstory to the whole project would be icing on the cake. I sure hope you still do your book.