Pete Dye counts about 80 golf courses in his lifetime repertoire, and at each and every one of them Pete was constantly on site – either actually living there (yes, even in far flung places like the Dominican Republic and Switzerland – or making regular visits from start to finish. Even Donald Ross and Alister Mackenzie sometimes offered golf courses...
I had to hold back a teardrop or two as I wrote the ledes for my PGA Championship previews this year. This week’s tournament at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course marks the first time a Pete Dye designed course has hosted a major golf championship since the great man passed away in January of 2020. And although the golf world rejoices at our collective slow...
As usual, Golf Course Trades did a phenomenal job of laying out my article about Pete Dye’s other masterpiece at Casa de Campo – Dye Fore! Parts are a throwback to Seth Raynor and Charles Blair Macdonald, parts are clifftop excitement, and parts are puckish Pete Dye at his creative best. And wait till next month when Stephen Kay and Lester George talk...
“Take your bottom lip, and pull it up over your head.” That was how comedienne Carol Burnett described labor pains, but it also depicts how it feels to flush a 4-up lead in golf to the drummer of a punk rock/top-40 band, but I’m getting ahead of myself. The stars were still bright when Gary Wiseman’s Escalade pulled into the Quik-E-Mart so we...