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Destination: Bend/Central Oregon

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Destination: Bend/Central Oregon

Parts of the northwest may be known for the rainy season, but the high desert town of Bend sure isn't one of them.

Once a small logging town with just a few town streets, today Bend is central Oregon's largest city, lying on the eastern end of the Cascade Mountain range. It's proximity to the mountains, as well as streams, Deschutes River and desert have helped generate a culture of outdoor buffs that come for hiking, rafting and in the winter, skiing.

Bend experienced tremendous growth during the recent real estate boom, and has subsequently suffered from its bust. Many developments built in last decade came with golf courses attached and now the area is loaded with golf courses. Pronghorn Golf Club is the most recognized name here, and recently opened its Nicklaus course to the public. Brasada Ranch was built with the intention of making Top 100 lists and drawing in more residents and golf members to the Bend area, though most of the new real estate ventures here have stalled in recent years.

Not all golf around Bend is in the high desert. Head up into the foothills of the Cascade mountains to a Top 100 regular listing: Crosswater at Sunriver Resort, a Bob Cupp design that's tough enough to host a Champions Tour major event.

In the tiny village of Sisters around the corner from Bend, family-run Aspen Lakes Golf Club is an affordable, modern-designed course where the locals like to play. Black Butte is an older, understated golf resort where the "new money" feel of Bend's new, upscale developments is long gone.

For golfers, Bend can be played year round, though winter temperature highs stay in the 40s, but average rainfall never goes higher than about an inch a month, so your best bet for sunny golf is here in the Great Basin High Desert Plateau.

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Widgi Creek Golf Club
Tee Times
Bend $39
Tetherow Golf Club
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Bend $60
Awbrey Glen Golf Club
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Bend $$
Greens at Redmond
Tee Times
Redmond
Glaze Meadow at Black Butte Ranch
Tee Times
Black Butte Ranch $50 - $65
Crooked River Ranch Golf Course
Tee Times
Crooked River Ranch $41
Meadows at Sunriver Resort
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Sunriver $55 - $95
Juniper Golf Club
Tee Times
Redmond $49
Woodlands at Sunriver Resort
Tee Times
Sunriver $45 - $75
Big Meadow at Black Butte Ranch
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Black Butte Ranch $50 - $75
Quail Run Golf Course La Pine $68
Resort Course at Eagle Crest Resort
Tee Times
Redmond $49
Nicklaus Course at Pronghorn Bend $120
River's Edge Golf Course Bend $50
Bend Golf & Country Club Bend $110
Caldera Links at Sunriver Resort Sunriver $45
Lost Tracks Golf Club Bend $45 - $65
Fazio Course at Pronghorn Bend $145
Aspen Lakes Golf Course Sisters $45 - $75
Old Back Nine at Mountain High Bend $20
Meadow Lakes Golf Course Prineville $25
Challenge Course at Eagle Crest Resort
Tee Times
Redmond $40
Crosswater Sunriver
Ridge Course at Eagle Crest Resort Redmond $30 - $69
Brasada Canyons Golf Course Powell Butte $125
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