A new favorite course at Streamsong…

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It was a full-circle moment for David McLay Kidd. The architect of Streamsong’s fourth 18-hole course stood at the resort’s rooftop bar the night before playing his creation for the first time in months. Bone Valley, his new course, had opened weeks before for preview play. A handful of spots were available to resort guests each day. Now, those guests were at the bar, debating their buddies and strangers why one course was better than the other.

This was Kidd’s guiding light in designing Bone Valley. He wanted to build a course that would be in the conversation with the ones by his peers: Red by Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw; Blue by Tom Doak and Black by Gil Hanse. Here he was, standing among the first golfers to get to play his course. The feedback poured in. Once golfers recognized Kidd, more would come over to shake his hand and tell him how much they enjoyed his course. The feedback was validation for the architect’s vision.

The Red course has always been my favorite at Streamsong, but I’d say it’s really close now between it and Bone Valley. I’d probably give Bone Valley the slight edge. The Red is such an intimate walk, particularly the front nine, which makes it really feel like an adventure. But Bone Valley is a different beast. There are so many bold, unique features: the 25-foot-high shark’s tooth-looking dune in the center of the fairway on the ninth hole; the amazing reveal on the walk to the short par-3 12th. And the massive dunes that flank the fairway on the approach into the par-5 14th.

We asked our course-ranking panelists who have played all four courses which is their favorite. The results were overwhelming in Bone Valley’s favor. Of course, this could be recency bias—but we train our panel not to be victims of the moment.

You can find those results and my takeaways on playing Bone Valley at the link below.

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