Riggs Vs Old Macdonald, Holes 3 & 7

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9/25/2024

Riggs | Fore Play

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00:00Folks, welcome to Old MacDonald at Bandon Dunes.

00:03This is one of the coolest, most unique golf course experiences in the world.

00:07As the old story goes, Charles Blair MacDonald, iconic Golden Age architect, he's got a lot

00:12of template holes, a lot of holes that people love that have been repeated with different

00:16iterations all over the place.

00:18Architects, Tom Doak, Jim Urbina, took C.B. MacDonald, took the Oregon Coast, and said,

00:23what do we think he might have built here?

00:25So you're going to see a lot of cool holes you've seen before, you're going to see some

00:28holes that they just figured, hmm, if he had this land, what would he have done?

00:31The third hole is one of the coolest holes in the world.

00:34I've filmed on the third and the seventh.

00:36The third has this iconic ghost tree.

00:38It's one of the best logos in the world.

00:40It's definitely the best logo at Bandon Dunes, in my opinion.

00:43Third hole is called Sahara.

00:45You hit it up over this dune.

00:46It's only 345 yards, but it's one of the most unique tee shots you'll ever hit.

00:51This was a good one.

00:52I took the mini driver.

00:53As you can see, I was kind of holding it off a little bit.

00:55That ghost tree is right in the middle of where you want to hit it if you want to drive

00:59the green.

01:00Typically, the wind is helping a little bit here, kind of off the right and helping.

01:03So if you pipe one down there, you can get it on the green, but it's hard to get it far

01:06enough left because of that tree.

01:08After you hit your tee shot, you walk up and you have one of the most magical reveals that

01:13you'll ever see, especially on a bluebird day like we had today.

01:17Walking out there with my brother, a couple of our best friends, and you can just see

01:20the entire property.

01:21The ghost tree's been through a lot over the last couple of years.

01:24It nearly fell over.

01:25So they're kind of holding it up, but it is as awesome as it gets.

01:35I think I had about 60 yards in here.

01:37I'm using a tiny little tripod that hopefully wasn't too heavy for the caddy to carry when

01:41I threw it in the bag.

01:42So I'm a little bit low here, but a little 60 yarder green runs away from me.

01:45I pitched this one up there very, very nicely.

01:48As you can see from the view behind, where it landed was up in that little ridge, kind

01:52of on the front part of the green, dribbled down to about 10 or 12 feet.

01:56Also, if you do go to Bandon, I can't recommend my guy, my caddy for the week.

02:00Odie, James Odie, aka Oregon's Jon Rahm.

02:04I can't recommend him enough.

02:05And if you do see him, don't be afraid to go Odie, because he's going to love that.

02:11This green is so big, with so much going on.

02:14It's actually got a drain in the middle of the green.

02:16Left ourselves in a good spot.

02:17So now we've got a little, let's call it a 12 footer, four birdie.

02:21Had a great read on it.

02:22Hit it pretty solid, but just a hair short.

02:25Again, we're kind of into the wind here.

02:26I think the wind might've affected that one,

02:27but hard not to show the flagstick with the ghost tree,

02:30the actual ghost tree in the background.

02:32It's just awesome.

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02:54And one of the other best parts,

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03:01The second hole that I filmed,

03:02again, I picked two of my favorites,

03:03probably my two favorite holes on the entire course.

03:05To film is the seventh hole.

03:07It's called Ocean.

03:08This one's actually not.

03:09This actually says this from their website.

03:11Not modeled after any particular McDonald hole,

03:14but we, band of dunes,

03:15were sure that McDonald would have moved heaven and earth

03:18to sight a green on the dune ridge overlooking the Pacific

03:22between the elevation change and the prevailing wind.

03:24The second shot will play much longer than the yardage.

03:27I hit a great tee shot here, again, with the mini driver.

03:30Wind here was pretty much straight into

03:33and about as severe as it gets.

03:34I hit a nice one up the left side,

03:36started kind of down the middle.

03:37Maybe it was drawing,

03:38but it definitely was drawing by the end of it

03:40because of the wind.

03:41Ended up just short of this bunker and a fantastic spot.

03:45As you can see, the second shot is very severely uphill.

03:48The pin was kind of in the back.

03:50You cannot miss short.

03:51If you miss a yard short,

03:52it rolls back a million yards,

03:54is what I'm going to call it.

03:55So I believe I had something in the 130-ish range

03:59and we picked a six iron.

04:00I know that seems like a lot,

04:01but you just can't come up short.

04:03My whole goal, I'm kind of choking down a little bit here.

04:05You can see I'm trying to saw off this finish,

04:07trying to hit a six iron,

04:08just flight it in there right at the pin.

04:10End up getting it going a little right to left.

04:13Anytime you do that with this much wind,

04:15it's going to go way farther left.

04:16It's going to barrel through the wind.

04:17So we went a little bit deep.

04:18We're in this back bunker.

04:20Bunker games have been pretty solid lately.

04:21I actually posted a daily nine of my bunker play.

04:24So we ended up in a not great, not desirable spot,

04:27but excellent effort out of the bunker.

04:29So after all that, we've got ourselves a look for par.

04:32And we talked about reveal earlier.

04:33When you walk up that slope, this reveal is just iconic.

04:36There's my brother.

04:37Our buddy's taking pictures.

04:38You have to up here.

04:40After this, you get a nice little halfway house.

04:42It's gotta be one of the most spectacular halfway houses

04:45ever built by humanity or really any living creature

04:48across the universe, the known universe.

04:50Just a phenomenal halfway house.

04:52So here we go.

04:53After, you know, a little bit of a grind,

04:55a fantastic bunker shot,

04:57we've got this look for par to get out of here

04:59with no damage through these two tough holes.

05:01Not my best, but misread this one.

05:03I thought it was going to go a little bit left to right

05:05and I was wrong, but we tap in.

05:07Pretty disappointed to be honest with you with that bogey.

05:09I felt like I could have birdied third hole.

05:11I felt like I could have parred the seventh hole

05:12and gotten through that stretch at one under, but we didn't.

05:15Again, this place is awesome.

05:16The logo off the charts, the reveals off the charts,

05:20all the template holes, really, really good.

05:22And also off the charts and just the ghost tree.

05:24It's iconic.

05:25You're looking at it throughout the entire round.

05:27Sits up there almost as a North star, as a beacon.

05:29So Old MacDonald, if you get to Bandon Dunes,

05:31if you ever get to the Pacific Northwest,

05:33do your best to get out there.

05:34Fantastic experience.

05:36Big thanks to DraftKings.

05:37Big thanks to Bandon Dunes.

05:39One over through two.

Riggs Vs Old Macdonald, Holes 3 & 7

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