I have to wonder what folks were thinking when this place was built.
I think that is the magic of the "old dead guy" courses - they did not get bogged down with environmental restrictions or "100 year floods". They just built good/great golf holes. Obviously they had seen storms when Lido was built, and my guess was something along the lines of "we can build a new hole on the other side if a storm wipes it out".
Just as a frame of modern reference, I walked that beach last fall with a group of students from a Surfers Healing outing at Lido and the beach today is very wide. I am sure it has not always been that way.
The modern Lido Golf Course is pretty average at best, but they let you do an online handicap and I wanted a handicap in The Met this year for an event.
Thanks for posting.