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Tetherow Golf Club, just minutes from course characteristics are not. To name a few,
downtown Bend, is a conceptually unique Tetherow contains deceptive (and forecaddie
and spectacular golf experience in no danger requiring) hole layouts, extreme undulations,
of replication. Created in the Scottish Heath- and fescue putting surfaces. There are signa-
lands style, Tetherow has all the elements ture-quality holes around every corner of this
of a traditional links golf course—sans the exciting venue and Tetherow is truly unlike
ocean—with wonderful vistas of the Cascade any other course in Oregon.
Mountain Range. The course was designed 541-388-2582
and is regularly played by David McLay Kidd, 61240 Skyline Ranch Rd., Bend, OR 97702
whose other notable masterpieces include Ban- www.tetherow.com
don Dunes and the Castle Course in Scotland.

Instead of rolling green hills or coastline, Teth-
erow offers signature sights of the High Des-
ert. Neighboring foothills and snow-capped
Cascade peaks, as well as tall pines, ghost
trees, and varying desert rock and plant life
provide a spectrum of scenery. While the sur-
rounding beauty may be quite different from
what a traditional links setting provide, the

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