The Lost Lido Shuffle
It is arguably the most famous lost golf course in the history of the game. Located on a narrow strip of an island just off the coast of New York’s Long Island, The Lido Club was a course before it’s time.
The driving force behind its creation was Charles Blair Macdonald (profiled on previous pages), who is generally regarded as the father of American golf course architecture. Having learned the game while a student at St Andrews in Scotland –including being tutored by Old Tom Morris – Macdonald won the first US Amateur in 1895. But it was course design, years after gaining success as a stockbroker, in which he excelled.
He based much of his design creativity on courses he had studied and played during his years in Great Britain and was at the forefront of the ‘Golden Age of Course Design’. His resume is full of classics including National Golf Links of
