Sven:
I can't think of an example of anyone reproducing a golf course.
Hypothetically, I wouldn't take the job to build Lido. I don't see the point of building a golf course that is gone just as much as I don't see the point of building a golf course that recreates famous holes from courses most people will never play.
The Lido was the Lido. Anything else is just a copy of Lido and, hypothetically, if I was asked to do it, I wouldn't want to be in the copying business. Realistically, I'd take the job because I'm broke.
I can see recreating a green that, let's say, was destroyed by an asteroid, because that's just one piece of an 18-piece puzzle where 17 pieces are original, but I can't see attempting to recreate an entire course that's been gone for a half century on an entirely different site. Then again, I'm not a golf course developer trying to come up with devices to attract customers.
What I wonder is what if the Lido was going to be faithfully rebuilt by an architect who is considered one of the great unwashed by the GCA crowd in conjunction with a Las Vegas casino or a Thailand, would people here would still be all for it? Maybe the better question would be, what if one of the unwashed did, in fact, recreate the Lido in stunning fashion and it was in Thailand, how would people react?
Anthony