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Thad Layton Selected to Judge the 2010 Golf World Lido Competition
February 03, 2010
Golf World's Annual Golf Design Contest
2010 Lido Competition
By Ron Whitten
February 8, 2010
Read the full article on GolfDigest.com
If the $3,000 grand prize isn't enough to convince you to enter the 2010 Lido Competition, the annual golf design contest co-sponsored by Golf World and the Alister MacKenzie Society, then consider this: If this year's winner attends the MacKenzie Society annual meeting at Ireland's Cork GC Aug. 21-24, he or she will receive a bonus $2,000 to help defray travel expenses.
And if that's still not enough, permit us to suggest one more reason: winning the Lido Prize can lead to even bigger and better things.
Our prime example is Thad Layton, who won the 2003 Lido Prize for his original hole design (pictured on right) which, as all entries must do, utilized the design philosophy of Dr. MacKenzie within the confines of a two-shot par 4. Back in '06, Layton was a "CADD monkey" for Arnold Palmer Course Design Co., doing computer design and graphics. Today, Layton is a golf architect for Palmer and has worked on, among other projects, the renovations of Pebble Beach (for this year's U.S. Open), Bay Hill in Orlando (for this year's Arnold Palmer Invitational) and The Bridges in Bay St. Louis, Miss., where he first got involved in the golf business as a grunt laborer in 1996.
Layton will serve as this year's judge for the Lido Competition, the first time a former winner has ever judged the contest.
The Lido Competition is based upon a magazine design contest won by Dr. MacKenzie in 1914. His winning hole, a par 4 with triple avenues of play, was later constructed by contest founder C.B. Macdonald on his Lido Golf Club on Long Island, N.Y. Sadly, the course, and hole, did not survive World War II.
As in previous Lido contests, entrants are restricted to a hand-drawn design, on paper not larger than 11"x17" along with one sheet of supporting explanation. One entry per contestant. An entry form is required. To download an entry form, as well as a full set of rules click here. Deadline for receipt of all entries is April 1, 2010. No fooling. The winner will be announced by May 1, 2010.
--Ron Whitten
Posted: February 3, 2010 03:10 PM
