Highlights:
1. Pete Dye’s recent ace at the 3rd at Delray!
2. Analysis of the courses and clubs!
3. Laughs at Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller:):)!
And more!
From the article:
Dye explained the formative years of his design philosophy in an earlier interview with your author:
“Back then, Trent [Robert Trent Jones, Sr.] was building a lot of great courses. And he was a good friend. But when I went to Harbour Town…he was building Palmetto Dunes. And it occurred to me that the only way I would ever get an identity was just go the dead opposite.”
So Dye turned to smaller, more curvaceous greens, instead of oceanic, oversized greens that were flat. He eschewed Trent’s penchant for uphill approaches and narrow fairways, instead letting fairways flow naturally into the greens.
As an aside, the old master can still sling the sticks. Just this week Pete lasered a hole-in-one on the 3rd hole at Delray at his age – “half 168 and trying to get into Heaven now!” The clubhouse rang with the cheering.
