David McLay Kidd is a Scottish golf course architect. He has 1 course, Bandon Dunes, ranked among the top 100 in the world according to the "Top 100 Courses in the World" November 2025 list compiled by Golf Magazine. Other notable designs include Gamble Sands, Mammoth Dunes, and Tetherow. He lives in Bend, Oregon.
McLay Kidd was born in 1967, in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, in Scotland. His father, Jimmy Kidd, was a greenkeeper.
In 1994 he was hired by Mike Keiser to design the first course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. Kidd wrote that "My task was to create the first genuine Scottish-style links course in America, and I believe there are few places outside the sand dunes along the Oregon coast where this would be possible." The course opened in May 1999.
In the following years, in some of Kidd's designs, the "whole resistance to scoring, and defense of par, and all of this kind of stuff starts to play into the mix." Among such designs were the St Andrews Links Castle Course, and Tetherow in Oregon.
In 2025, Loralama represented Kidd's attempt to bring Links golf to Texas.