Marvel: The Lido To Be Resurrected In Rural Wisconsin

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The obsession with recreating Lido Golf Club will finally come full circle near Sand Valley resort. In a world that craves Marvel’s latest Avengers remake, this might be a fitting course for the times and already under construction according to The Fried Egg’s Garrett Morrison. It’s a full CGI special based on Peter Flory’s interpretation after learning The Golf Club game. He was inspired Daniel Wexler’s Missing Links that detailed the Lido’s rise and fall best.

This is all a long winded way of saying all your favorite template holes will be meticulously recreated by Doak, from Captain America, I mean, the Punchbowl to the Channel, with cameos from all the rest of CB Macdonald’s favorites. Morrison on the novelty of the project:

Michael and Chris Keiser plan to resurrect the Lido Golf Club, the legendary Long Island course that disappeared 80 years ago. The Keiser brothers have hired Tom Doak to carry out the reconstruction of Charles Blair Macdonald’s original design.

With funding and zoning approval in place, the Wisconsin Lido is quickly becoming a reality. Pre-construction began several months ago, and in an interview with The Fried Egg, Michael Keiser—the developer behind Sand Valley and the eldest son of Bandon Dunes owner Mike Keiser—said Doak’s team has already rough-graded two famous holes from the Lido, No. 4 (“Channel”) and No. 12 (“Punchbowl”). “Two pretty good holes to start with,” Keiser quipped.

While a private course, Sand Valley resort guests may have an opportunity to play.

The par-68, 6,100-yard fun course Doak was to create for Sand Valley and called Sedge Valley, has been put on pause**.

For a full set of images Golfweek has posted pretty much the entire digital recreation of the course.

And if you are headed to Thailand any time soon, Gil Hanse’s team has already recreated the Lido, set for opening later this year.

**Updated after clarification from Kemper Sports that the course is on pause, not abandoned, which is sensational news given the potential to break barriers with a non-72/7000 course.