Few towns on the Oregon coast wear their relationship with the wind as openly as Florence, and any golf played here arrives with that understanding. Sitting at the edge of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area — one of the largest expanses of coastal sand dunes in North America — the landscape around Florence is dramatic, windswept, and unlike almost anywhere else in the American West. The Siuslaw River meets the Pacific nearby, and the surrounding terrain of dune grass, shore pine, and rolling sand hills creates a natural stage that could hardly be better suited to links-style golf.
The "Links" in the name is no accident. This kind of terrain — sandy soil, coastal exposure, firm and fast conditions when the weather cooperates — is precisely what the word was always meant to describe, and Florence's setting delivers the genuine article in spirit if not Scottish latitude.
Florence itself is a small, unpretentious coastal town, and golf here carries that same character: real and unhurried, with the Pacific making its presence felt on every exposed hole.
