McLay Kidd Reimagines Classic Oahu Golf Course For North Shore Club

The existent 17th spread astatine the Palmer Course connected Oahu, which David McLay Kidd is overhauling aft the spot became a portion of the caller North Shore Club and its backstage residential community.

North Shore Club

David McLay Kidd, the acclaimed designer who created the original people astatine Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, is besides the designer of Nanea, the No. 1-ranked people successful the authorities of Hawaii. Now Kidd is headed backmost to the Hawaiian Islands to overhaul an “antique” connected the North Shore of Oahu that’s portion of a caller backstage community.

Kidd is overseeing a phased enhancement of Turtle Bay’s Arnold Palmer Golf Course starting successful precocious 2026, a renewal that will beryllium dispersed crossed 3 to 4 years. The intent is to refine conditioning and strategy of the much than 50-year-old people while maintaining uninterrupted personnel entree for the caller North Shore Club passim the process.

“From a surgical perspective, I’d opportunity it’s astir apt highly targeted tactical,” said Kidd, whose caller designs see Bone Valley astatine Streamsong Resort (Florida), Scarecrow astatine Gamble Sands (Washington) and the Dormie Network’s GrayBull (Nebraska). “It's not open-heart room that we're going to do. We're not blowing up the full entire point and reshaping each past portion of it. It's reasonably targeted.”

The North Shore Club is simply a 20-residence oceanfront enclave developed by Areté Collective, pinch prices starting astatine $5.9 cardinal and first deliveries anticipated successful 2027. Kidd has an existing narration pinch Areté Collective, having precocious completed the play people astatine Loraloma, the developer’s backstage residential nine successful Spicewood, Texas.

While Kidd is champion known for his caller people designs, he’s besides retooled existing courses specified arsenic Rolling Hills Country Club overlooking the metropolis of Los Angeles.

“I look astatine these courses and I'm trying to fig retired -- is location imaginable that sewage near connected the table?” said Kidd. “You know, does the tract warrant a 9-out-of-10 play course, but for immoderate logic backmost past they only could build a 7-out-of-10 play course. Or possibly clip has been the force of it alternatively than its friend. So, that's benignant of wherever we're at.

“There are a fewer tweaks to the routing,” he added. “There is simply a par 4 connected the beforehand that's for illustration a 90-degree turn, which is benignant of odd. And there's a mates of different disconnects that we're going to effort and hole from a routing perspective, and past conscionable re-strategize the play people and rebuild the features that are retired there.”

Refined Routing

The activity will entail anyplace betwixt 3 and 5 holes being taken offline each summertime but ensuring a afloat 18 holes are disposable for play passim the process.

The routing will beryllium refined to see a much balanced operation of holes that amended fresh the exposed and windy tract connected Oahu’s North Shore that’s famously location to immoderate of the astir iconic surfing spots successful each of Hawaii. In addition, the erstwhile 15th spread of the original Palmer people is being eliminated to amended travel while the reimagined closing agelong will see a melodramatic short par 3 followed by a perchance drivable par 4.

And from an artistic and biology perspective, improved cart way creation will trim fairway crossings while a simplification successful maintained turf will little semipermanent h2o usage and attraction demands.

Although the caller McLay Kidd people is simply a cornerstone portion to the backstage residential organization focused connected oceanfront wellness and family-centered amenities, it will still beryllium accessible by guests of the Ritz-Carlton Oahu, Turtle Bay. The Palmer Course has been 1 of 2 18-hole courses astatine the resort, on pinch the (George) Fazio people that’s presently closed while undergoing betterment projects itself.

Kidd has been doing immoderate activity astatine Nanea connected the Big Island, including redoing the irrigation and a bunker renewal effort, and is excited astir the chance to squad pinch the Areté Collective to reimagine 1 of Hawaii’s older courses.

“This thing's benignant of for illustration an antique, right? And connected the North Shore of Oahu, too,” said Kidd. “It’s conscionable beautiful. A awesome spot, a awesome hotel, and a tract that's sewage a play people pinch imaginable yet to give. For me, those are each phenomenal ingredients. I couldn't find a logic not to do it.”