Pretend for a moment you are a gladiator of the Coliseum in Rome, and you have just been 1) smeared with the 200 A.D. equivalent of Big Mama’s Honky-Tonk Down-Home Extra Spicy Slatherin’ Sauce, 2) chained to an angry, roaring, starving lion, and then 3) set loose in the Coliseum for the amusement of the masses. Both professional and amateur golfers alike...
[Author’s Note: In Part One we explored the general architectural themes Pete Dye used at the Casa de Campo golf courses. Now we will break down the individual courses and holes. Remember we are talking about four different facilities with a total of 90 holes: Teeth of the Dog (18), The Links (18), Dye Fore (27, the Marina and Chavon nines which friends and...
It’s now mid-season for us at AWITP, which means plenty of great golf reading for you. We’ll be dividing the work form Casa de Campo into three parts: an intro on the resort and Pete’s work in general, then a piece on Teeth of the Dog and the Links, followed by Dye Fore, Five, and Six. After that it’s tome for the Anderson Memorial at Winged...
[Editor’s Note: While we are writing our pieces from Casa de Campo, here is a re-run of Jay’s Pete Dye section of the famous “Which Architect is Which Rock Band” piece featured here. Enjoy. More live reports from Casa de Campo coming soon.] Pink Floyd – Pete Dye. Pink Floyd has the same monumental legacy as Led Zeppelin, but their music...
ABOVE, THE CHAVON NINE OF CASA DE CAMPO’S DYE FORE FACILITY (ABOVE) WILL SOON HAVE A NEW COURSE FOR COMPANY ***This story is exclusive here and at Cybergolf*** LA ROMANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Casa de Campo officials confirmed tonight that six million dollars U.S. has been approved for the building of a new Pete Dye golf course at the resort. The new 18...
You know you’ve got a great girlfriend when she turns to you and says, “I want to play a Pete Dye course!” That’s what my new girl did yesterday evening as she perused the yardage books and scorecards on my nightstand, and it made my day. But once I got over the elation of learning that my girl has serious golf street cred, I thought, where do...
James Bond has Q Branch, I have the “Gadgeteers,” a core group of computer scientists and Internet experts that keep me up-to-date on the latest in technology. There’s University of Edinburgh grad Ian Clarke. He is to the computer sciences what Stephen Hawking was to physics, inventing one super-cool program after another, and hen aw-shucksing it...
Back 9 Network Ran my Pete Dye day trips article. As usual, they do a great job with it!
[Author’s Note: We’ll be at Casa de Campo for the reboot of the GolFantasy vacations franchise. In prep, here’s Pete Dye breaking down the courses like a fraction for us, along with some observations about modern equipment Alice makes a cameo appearance as well, stealing every scene she enters!] Jay Flemma: Tell us a little about building Teeth of...
We’ll have something different for all you readers this December. We’ll be doing another Chuck Klosterman-esque sports societal experiment – checking out what it’s like to attend a fantasy golf trip. Interestingly, while football and baseball “fantasy camps” are fairly common, they aren’t in golf. Our game’s closest...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – So this is what Rory McIlroy does for an encore, reduce another reputedly unconquerable golf course to mere flotsam and jetsam en route to a second major victory, this time the 2012 PGA Championship. Europe’s proper rejoinder to Tiger Woods turned Pete Dye’s supposedly Ram-tough Kiawah Island Ocean Course into a Tonka toy and ran...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – On a day that saw 30 mile per hour winds, sideways rain, and the highest scoring average in PGA Championship single round history, Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods surged to 4-under and a tie for the lead with rounds of 3-under 69 and 1-under 71 respectively. Both stand at 4-under (140) for the tournament, tied with Carl Petterson who followed...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – He’s a mad scientist, he’s the Boris Karloff of golf courses, he ruined your scorecard, hid my car keys, busted Roger Clemens’s no-hit bid in the bottom of the ninth, kicked over the lantern in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn, was the lone gunman behind the grassy knoll, conquered Asia on horseback with an army of...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – Usually when PGA Championship time rolls around we hear endless repetition of the PGA of America’s mantra for the event – “Glory’s Last Shot.” I’ve never been a huge fan of that slogan. I think it actually dumbs down the importance of the tournament. After all, it is a major golf championship. It...
JF: We hear some interesting things happened while you were building Kiawah Island? PD: Oh I got plenty of stories! Everything happened to us trying to build that golf course. Back then it was owned by Landmark and Eddie Vossler, (you remember him, he won a lot on the PGA Tour), and Joe Walser. They owned PGA West, La Quinta, and Oak Tree – I’ve built 10...