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Streamsong Resort has unveiled that construction of a fifth golf course on property is underway. The 18-hole championship golf course - the resort's fourth, in addition to the 19-hole short course called The Chain and an expansive putting course - will be laid out by David McLay Kidd.
Once completed (a timeline has not been fully established), the yet-to-be-named course (White would seem the logical next color choice) will add Kidd to the roster of renowned golf architects who have contributed to Streamsong's development since its 2012 opening. Tom Doak's Blue and Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw's Red courses opened simultaneously that year, and Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner added the Black course in 2017. Coore & Crenshaw returned to Streamsong and laid out The Chain, which fully opened last year.
Once Kidd's course opens, Streamsong will be the only golf facility in the world to feature courses designed by each of the current era's four best-known designers and firms. While a growing cadre of architects has risen to take on exciting projects in their own right, Doak, Coore & Crenshaw, Hanse & Wagner and Kidd have separated themselves from the field over the last 30-plus years by garnering an impressive group of high-profile commissions on resort and private clubs that have come to populate several magazine best-of lists.
Most recently, GOLF Magazine ranked the Red, Blue and Black Courses at numbers 17, 19 and 37, respectively, on its newest list of the top publicly accessible courses in America. Kidd has a tall task ahead of him in order to create a course that ranks among the country's best few dozen as well. Whatever happens, students of contemporary golf course design will relish the chance to debate which of Streamsong's courses - and contributing architects - reigns supreme.
Kidd's course is expected to be laid out on a tract of land between the opening holes of the Red course and the Black course with a general out-and-back routing that meander the property before returning to the clubhouse at hole 18.
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