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Bandon’s new Sheep Ranch is one of its most ambitious designs yet — and, according to one notable local, it just might be its best
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hough he certainly never sought it, Mick Peters is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. The Bandon barber (a great name for a song or film, but used here simply to denote that Peters cuts hair in the coastal Oregon town, something he’s done for 55 years at his business, Mick’s Hair Surgeons, on Baltimore Avenue) has been the subject of half a dozen interviews, TV and print, since hitting the first official shot on the Sheep Ranch, the fifth 18-hole course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, on Mon., June 1. That’s a nice little moment in itself, certainly, but it’s
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only one-fifth of the story. In fact, Peters has hit the first shot on all five courses – Bandon Dunes (1999), Pacific Dunes (2001), Bandon Trails (2005), Old Macdonald (2010), and now the Sheep Ranch. He also hit the first official putt on the Punchbowl putting green in 2014. “All the attention has been way more than I ever expected,” says the 75-year-old, who now manages a few holes with his grandson on Shorty’s, the resort’s first short course, when he’s not hitting ceremonial tee shots. “It’s been on the local news several times a day since Monday, so we’ve had a lot of people come in to the shop talking about it.”
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