By:
Josh Berhow
December 29, 2022
The third gap, and ghost tree, at Previous Macdonald at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
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Should you’ve been to Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, what the ghost tree is, and even should you haven’t, you continue to may know what the ghost tree is. As a result of let’s be sincere: what number of well-known golf bushes are there anyway? Not many.
However the ghost tree is definitely one among them, and Bandon Dunes reported through Twitter on Wednesday {that a} latest storm has put it in a precarious state.
The Ghost Tree on Previous Macdonald’s third gap will all the time be an impressive image of Bandon. Yesterday’s storm triggered the tree to lean and our workforce is researching methods to stabilize it. If you’re taking part in OM quickly, please be respectful of its house and rejoice it from a secure distance. pic.twitter.com/VxTP5RaNy2
— Bandon Dunes (@BandonDunesGolf) December 28, 2022
“The Ghost Tree on Previous Macdonald’s third gap will all the time be an impressive image of Bandon,” the tweet learn. “Yesterday’s storm triggered the tree to lean and our workforce is researching methods to stabilize it. If you’re taking part in OM quickly, please be respectful of its house and rejoice it from a secure distance.”
The Port Orford Cedar — a.okay.a the ghost tree — is on the par-4 third on the Previous Macdonald course. The outlet begins with a blind tee shot over a sand dune, and the road is to attract your tee shot across the ghost tree to the green that falls away from you. The tree could be seen from virtually each gap at Previous Mac (so long as the fog doesn’t roll in).
A golfer tees off on the third gap at Previous Mac.
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The tree has turn out to be considerably of a celeb, too, principally as a result of golfers love Bandon Dunes, and what’s to not love a couple of actually cool, spooky-looking tree? It even has its personal assortment in Bandon’s Professional Store, as you should buy it on putter covers, hats, shirts, sweatshirts and extra.
The ghost tree is one among few bushes within the golf world notable sufficient to jot down about. One other semi-recent occasion was on the dwelling of the Masters. In 2014 the well-known Eisenhower Tree at Augusta Nationwide, which guarded the seventeenth gap, suffered main harm from an ice storm and needed to be eliminated.
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Josh Berhow
Golf.com Editor
Josh Berhow is the managing editor at GOLF.com. The Minnesota native graduated with a journalism diploma from Minnesota State College in Mankato. You may attain him at [email protected].