From another thread ... (hoping I'm not stepping on toes)
Bandon Crossings was a pleasant surprise, quiet and uncrowded on a Saturday afternoon, while many Oregonians were watching the state football team pound Michigan. The course is a quirky, minimal style design, with beautiful par threes and plenty of variety. Nice place, like playing golf in somebody's really nice backyard, which, in essence, is the case. We met the owners and had a nice chat afterwards. Great time.
Once you play Bandon Crossings, Sandpines will probably drop from your rota. Curiosity alone should lure you to BC and you'll see that the golfing grounds are much better to bring you back. The powerlines are really only off to the side of this one hole but can be seen from 2 and 3 but they are only prominent here on 4. They are not in play - even for this knuckleball driver. Unless one is an obsessive faultfinder, the powerlines will quickly be forgotten.
BTW, between the town of Bandon and BCrossings is Billy Smoothboars Seafood & Steakhouse - great thick prime rib that fills a plate with masht puhtaters.