This course is in our GSPro library — pull it up in any bay and play it wall to wall.

"Good pick for a member who wants Bandon's polish without pure links wind-and-fescue conditions."

The inland course at Bandon, and the sleeper pick of many architecture heads. Coore & Crenshaw's 2005 design is the only course at the resort without ocean holes — instead it journeys through three worlds: massive coastal dunes, an open meadow, and a hushed coastal rain forest, then climbs back into the dunes to finish. Behind the 14th tee a plaque marks the view that convinced Mike Keiser to buy the property in the first place. Regularly called the most underrated course in America.

Architecture nuts and anyone who ranks strategy over scenery. If you think a course needs an ocean to be great, Trails is the argument against — many Bandon regulars quietly call it the best design on property.

The drivable par-4 14th, plunging off a bluff to a fallaway redan green, is the famous one — thrilling and infuriating in equal measure. The hogsback 4th, the huge-green par-3 5th, and the uphill slithering par-5 16th round out one of Coore & Crenshaw's best sets.

Tough walk, tough course: elevation change, quick green complexes, and trouble pinching the meadow holes. No ocean wind to fight, though, and the forest calm makes it the least intimidating Bandon big course mentally.

In GSPro via community recreation. The sim flattens the brutal walk, which honestly helps you enjoy the design — and 14 is a perfect risk-reward hole for Clubhouse match nights. Queue it after Bandon Dunes for the full-resort contrast.

Public resort, walking only, same booking reality as the rest of Bandon: $300+ peak for outside guests, cheaper with lodging, book far ahead for summer. The hilliest walk at the resort — take a caddie.