Comments on Grouchy Golf Blog: Bandon Dunes Vacation Trip Tips: Part III, On the Course

Ask for Vern as your caddie if you plan to make th...

2010-06-12T19:54:20.724-07:00

Ask for Vern as your caddie if you plan to make the trip out to Bandon. He was my caddie in June 2010 and did a great job.

One other comment about caddies at Bandon Dunes...if your group has lunch between rounds at one of the restaurants on the resort, invite your caddie to join your group and pick up the caddie's meal tab.

That is very, very disappointing to hear about you...

2009-02-28T18:39:00.000-08:00

That is very, very disappointing to hear about your experience with your caddies at Bandon. I started caddying in 8th grade and did it until the summer after I graduated college in '93. The guys I worked with all took a lot of pride in what we did and we were good at it. And only once did I ever get over $100 carrying double.

Bandon Dunes is an unbelievable place to play! Eve...

2009-02-05T11:30:00.000-08:00

Bandon Dunes is an unbelievable place to play! Everything there was great. Kudos to Mr. Kaisar. As far as the caddies, if you get a good one it WILL be well worth it! $55 a bag is very reasonable, that's basically $13/hour to have someone hold your hand and guide you through an amazing experience! The $25 suggested minimum is cheap seeing that they wait on you for 4 1/2 hours. A waitress serves you for a total of 10 minutes and you give her at least a 15% tip. Your round is $200 and a 15% tip would be $30. I took a caddie named Eric Fedders, very knowledgeable, polite, and clearly had been caddying for a while. Let's put it this way, he saved me a bunch of strokes on the green alone, not to mention all the adjustments he threw in for the wind and slope factor. He also gave me the names of 3 other caddies that did an unbelievable job for our group. If you are going there, get a hold of Eric , he will help you out in getting caddies that won't disappoint! Email him at [email protected]. caddies make the Experience!

Next time at Bandon get a chap from South Africa, ...

2009-01-19T12:58:00.000-08:00

Next time at Bandon get a chap from South Africa, Lester Wagner to caddy for you. Not only is this dude a nice guy but also a fine golfer himself. He offered me a lot of help with course management and sorted out my swing too. Well worth the money

It sure is tough breaking 90 on that course with m...

2008-12-08T11:35:00.000-08:00

It sure is tough breaking 90 on that course with muscle back irons. But you had a lot of fun anyway !

I see that you carry about a $ 1000.00 worth of go...

2008-11-15T05:26:00.000-08:00

I see that you carry about a
$ 1000.00 worth of golf clubs in your bag but did not break 90. This appears to be a very tough course but I feel better knowing that I would have not broke 90 either with my 10 year old cheap clubs.