
Bandon Dunes Golf Course in Oregon
About twelve years ago, Mike Kaiser started construction on a golf course in southern Oregon called Bandon Dunes. Kaiser, a former greeting card company owner turned mogul, had a vision of exporting a piece of Scotland into the Oregon coastline.
The course turned out to be smashing success, and it has turned into a complex of five magnificent golf courses, a spa, a hotel and a bunch of restaurants. It is not a cheap place to play, but it has become a tourist Mecca, with duffers from around the world coming in to try their hand at links-style golf.
Oregon is a beautiful place to visit. It has a thriving wine industry, a robust agriculture sector, and world-renown companies like Nike and Columbia outerwear.
But it also has a problem with crystal meth, especially in the more rural areas that surround Bandon Dunes. Unemployment in some parts of rural Oregon goes well beyond the national average, and there is a sense of desperation and foreboding in some of the smaller towns, all because of crystal meth.















