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Bucket List... Another Crossed Off: Bandon Dunes Golf.

What does it take to be content in life? The right focus. The right perspective. Bucket lists seem to be contradictory to seeking contentment. Yet, I have one. Loosely. I haven't written it down, I don't pine over it. But I do know that I've wanted to play Bandon Dunes courses since I first caught glimpse of them in a Golf Digest magazine in 1998 while riding in a white van on the way to our national tournament. I remember looking at the images of this walking only course on the coast of Oregon and thinking it looked like my ultimate playground. I turned to my friend Tim and said, "One day, we have to play this!" No plans were made. Initially, finances were the limiting factor... But by the time we reached a financial point where this was feasible, life had become fairly intense and doing something like this wasn't even possible for either of us. Fast forward 18 years... and we did it. Honestly, it exceeded my expectations! There is something mystical ab