Construction is about to get underway on a fifth course at Streamsong in south-central Florida. Situated between the Black and Red courses, the David McLay Kidd design will traverse rambling sand dunes and feature dramatic elevation changes, at least for Florida.
Known for his playable and eye-catching work at Bandon Dunes in Bandon, Ore., Gamble Sands in Brewster, Wash., and Sand Valley in Nekoosa, Wis., Kidd has wanted to join the Murderers’ Row of architects who designed the other courses at the resort, which includes Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw (Red), Tom Doak (Blue), and Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner (Black), since the resort opened in 2012.
“To be included in that group of architects requires my team and I to do something exceptional,” Kidd says. “That opportunity both excites me and makes me nervous, but in a good way. My team and I are so excited to add to the history of a place so young and yet so rooted in a tradition of exceptional golf architecture.”
No doubt the course will be a stunner like the others. The only question remains is, what color will the name be?