Rolling Hills Country Club unveils new David McLay Kidd-designed golf course
David McLay Kidd celebrates the opening of the new Rolling Hills Country Club course. Photo by David Fairchild The day before David McLay Kidd was to hit the ceremonial tee shot, celebrating the opening of the new Rolling Hills Country Club golf course, he and wife Tara Dayer-Smith dove over the course in their single engine Cirrus SR22 with the stylized Scottish flag on the tail. “Like a Stuka,” Kidd said, referring to the World War II German dive bomber. “We had flown in from our home in Bend and had to be at 5,000 feet to clear the LAX air space. But when we approached the Torrance airport, their air controller told us we were a little high,” he explained. With the opening of the new Rolling Hills course on January 14, Torrance Airport anticipates more fly-in golfers, though not in the numbers of the small airport near Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, which the new Rolling Hills course is being compared to. Since Bandon Dunes opened in 1999, its nearby airport has become one of the the busiest in Oregon. 5th Green at Rolling Hills Like Bandon Dunes, Rolling Hills was designed by Kidd and is a links course, in the untamed style of Scotland’s St. Andrews and Gleneagles, where Kidd’s…
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