David McLay Kidd's reputation as a wild man grew out of his design for Bandon Dunes on Oregon's southern coast, now nearly ten years old and still one of the greatest courses of the modern era. Wild in how the then-20-some-thing Scot gave the track a links-like look, with massive greens, rolling fairways, daunting rough, and sinister bunkering. Wild in the way the layout forced the game to be played in the traditional way-on the ground. And wild in how it encouraged wind and rain to conspire with the contours of the land, subjecting rounds to the whims of nature.
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