McLay-Kidd has designed several renowned courses that feature on many golfers' "must play" lists. His best known work includes, but is not limited to:
UNITED STATES:
Bandon Dunes, OR (, Dunes course) / Gamble Sands, WA () / Nanea, HI () / Rolling Hills CC, CA () / Sand Valley, WI (, Mammoth Dunes course) / Tetherow, OR () / TPC Stonebrae, CA (, originally called TPC San Francisco Bay) / Tributary, ID (, originally called Huntsman Springs).
BRITAIN & IRELAND:
Beaverbrook, Eng (, with Tom Watson) / Machrihanish Dunes, Scot () / Powerscourt, Ire (, West course redesign) / Queenwood, Eng () / St Andrews, Scot (, Castle course).
AND ALSO:
Fancourt, S Africa (, modifications to Montagu course) / Guacalito de la Isla, Nicaragua () / Laucala Island, Fiji ().
Born and raised in Scotland, David McLay-Kidd grew up with golf in his bones. His father Jimmy Kidd was a head greenkeeper, who spent 25 years managing the famed courses of the Gleneagles Hotel. Having been around some of the oldest and finest courses in the world, it was not surprising McLay-Kidd followed in his father's footsteps but as a course architect ra
David McLay Kidd
David McLay Kidd
Grew Up In The Game
As the son of a golf course superintendent born and raised in Scotland, David McLay Kidd grew up immersed in the game golf at some of the oldest and finest facilities in the world. His father’s passion rubbed off on David at an early age; as a teenager he worked at his father’s courses helping with daily maintenance as well as a few renovation projects.
His informal education gave Kidd a head start for his formal education at Writtle College on the outskirts of London where he studied Horticulture and Landscape Design. He then interned with Southern Golf Construction, Europe’s largest golf construction company, before gaining more real-world experience at a small design and construction management firm in England. There he developed his ideas for golf course design as well as the construction process.
As Kidd puts it:
This is sneaky good.
Kidd’s breakthrough came with the launch of Bandon Dunes in His success at Bandon led to several acclaimed projects such as Nanea Golf Club in ; TPC of San Francisco Bay at Stonebrae in ; Tetherow Golf Course in ; to name a few.
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David McLay Kidd grew up in the golf business, surrounded by the history of Scottish golf -- and some of the world's greatest courses. When David was born, his father, Jimmy Kidd, was the greenkeeper at Glasgow Golf Club. In , the elder Kidd was hired as the superintendent of the courses at Gleneagles Resort. Within a few short years, Gleneagles became the venue for the Scottish Open for eight straight years. Jimmy's boy had a front-row seat for all of it and decided early on that a life in the golf industry was to be his future.
At the tender age of 26, McLay Kidd first set foot on a large swath of ocean-front land in Oregon, and he would make a pitch to build what many consider to be the first true links course in the U.S. Two years later, he moved to Coos Bay to design and build Bandon Dunes, a masterpiece that would propel him to instant stardom in the world of golf course architecture.
Shortly after Bandon Dunes opened to universal praise in , McLay Kidd founded DMK Golf Design, which
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