Rodeo Dunes is officially open. The first course at Dream Golf’s newest destination property, a Coore & Crenshaw design built on 4,000 acres of rolling sand dunes in Roggen, Colorado, is welcoming founding members and media for the first time. The full public opening is scheduled for 2027.
The project is the work of Michael and Chris Keiser, sons of Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser and the same family behind Sand Valley in Wisconsin. The site sits 50 miles northeast of Denver and 42 miles from Denver International Airport, roughly 35 minutes from a major airport, an almost unheard-of proximity for a destination golf property of this caliber.
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw designed the first course, returning to the type of inland links landscape that defined their 1995 masterpiece Sand Hills in Nebraska. “It’s the first time we’ve had a site like this in America since Sand Hills,” Coore said. “It’s the type of property that goes back to the very beginnings of golf being played by the sea in Scotland.” The dunes reach 85 feet high, with 125-mile views of Colorado’s Front Range.
The land has been in the Cervi family since 1883, operated as a working ranch and home to the Cervi Championship Rodeo, the largest rodeo stock supplier in the United States. After a four-plus-year negotiation, the Keisers secured 4,000 acres. It was the first time the Cervi family had ever sold any of the property.
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For the remainder of 2026, Rodeo Dunes will be played primarily by its founding members, who paid up to $85,000 for lifetime memberships. A second course designed by longtime Coore & Crenshaw associate Jim Craig is currently under construction, with up to six courses planned for the property in total.
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