Granted it's been 15 years since I was there, but there's nothing in the way of lodging nearby that would be able to handle a big tournament, nor do I think the infrastructure/roads could handle it; it's remote, most people that play it stay on site with the closest city is Eugene 2.5 hours away. Would be glad to be corrected by jercra or FL4WLESS as I know they've been there more recently, it'd be awesome to see.
Edit: Ah and while typing, TFP confirmed, forgot you'd gone there recently man.
Nothing to correct. They could potentially solve the lack of hotel rooms and restaurants with a few cruise ships docked off-shore (post-COVID, of course), but the surf an weather there can be absolutely brutal so you'd kind of have to be an insane person to agree to stay on one and be shuttled to shore and then bussed up to the resort. I also discussed this week doing some potentially creative things like setting up some "glamping" sites and camping sites all around Bandon Trails and making it more live concert/festival event than a golf event. That could be super, super fun and a really interesting scene, but again, the weather makes it impossible. There would tents flying all over and probably some pretty serious injuries from tree branches falling and such.
But, even if you could solve the hotel problem, the airport and rental car problems are bigger. I was looking at going to Bandon last week to play Sheep Ranch right before the US Am started (was out in PDX for a member/guest already) and you couldn't find a rental car anywhere in PDX, Eugene, Coos Bay or Bandon. Eugene airport couldn't remotely handle the amount of fans that would come for a US Open type event. PDX is 4.5 hours away. North Bend is a little tiny airport that mostly doesn't even handle commercial traffic except for a few months a year.
That was a long-winded way of saying it's a non-starter.
But, a PGA Tour level match play event would be amazing there. I want to see it in March though, not in August. It was way too easy out there for them this week. Whipping winds, pouring rain and cold temps is the way Bandon is supposed to be.