In Volume 3 of The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Tom Doak published that.

“I don’t know how an architect could go out to a sandy site on the Oregon coast and fail to be inspired by it, but it feels as though the course was designed by someone who had never been to the beach when he was a kid. Designing the last three holes around a man-made lake in the middle of the dunes was the ultimate cliché.“

Sandpines Golf Club received a score of 4 out of 10 from Tom Doak and a score of 5 out of 10 from one of his co-authors.