And second, they somewhat act as a both a guard for a ball not going in the water if it’s rolling in the direction away from the fairway, and acts as a penalty if the ball is landing just in safety after flying over the water. cartoon-ish yardage guide of TPC Sawgrass, #GolfRules2019 — What the USGA and R&A are Thinking, Long fairway bunkers between fairway and hazard. Remember me mentioning how 18th hole at Sawgrass doesn’t have a bunker between the grass and the water hazard to the left? The 5th hole at Whistling Straights is the first that comes to mind in this grouping, and incidentally, is named “the Snake”. I would say that Pete Dye was one of making the best players in the world struggle. GOTM. That entire course was screaming that Dye designed it. Dye which features many of the famous Dye design elements. The final one that you’ll see at a bunch of Pete Dye courses is a large, flat green side bunker with a giant lip guarding the green. Golf Course Gurus have a couple pics from the course with their overview of Sawgrass as well. Two holes down the road is the 11th at Sawgrass, another double dogleg. Bradley S. Klein offers his top 10 of Pete Dye courses. Me included.”, Arnold Palmer mentions one of Dye’s early designs: “I’ll always have special memories of Harbour Town, on the southern tip of Hilton Head, where I was fortunate to be the inaugural champion at what was then known as the Heritage Classic… It was one of the most interesting of his designs and one I’ve enjoyed very much… I wish there were more courses like Harbour Town, which has never relied on length as a deterrent to scoring.”, Greg Norman was also fulsome in his praise for Dye’s work: “The most amazing thing I have witnessed about Pete is his ability to create a golf course without a set of plans. We do believe in creating some severe greenside bunkers requiring strong lofted shots but there is always a level walking exit place. Pete Dye Resort Course at The Westin Mission Hills Learn about the Pete Dye Golf Course in Rancho Mirage, California at Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa. Pete Dye, who designed more than 100 public and private golf courses worldwide, including TPC Sawgrass with its famed "Island Green" on the 17th hole, died Thursday. without feeling Pete’s influence. Pete Dye’s Golf Course Design Philosophies, by Pete Dye My architectural philosophy has evolved as the game, the players, the equipment and course maintenance accelerated. The most iconic Dye hole - the Stadium 17th at TPC Sawgrass. then in vogue. Pete was the only golf architect that changed the face of Going behind all this, I was getting a little back, and my bride was there, Alice was there, and I said, Ally, we’re getting behind and this tournament is coming down the line. reading an article and seeing pictures of what he did at the Golf The Dye name has long been associated with the game of golf, or more specifically, golf courses. See all courses One Master Architect Pete Dye was considered in many circles to be the ( Log Out /  In case you don’t remember, here’s a picture from the PGA Tour’s site. Basically every hole that has a water hazard to one side has a long fairway bunker guarding it. I swear, Pete Dye designed courses are like Picasso art – very distinct, very unique, and easy to know who created the piece just by looking at it. Note the difficult stats on that page about the hole. So I brought the two greens from the University of Michigan out there to Crooked Stick, that’s the 14th and 15th, that belonged to Mr. McKenzie. That was the start of His body of work exceeds ninety designs, which represents a smaller output than his contemporaries. The last time I played here in 2011 for the Wisconsin State Open, I missed the fairway to the right, said screw it, and barely made it over the water to the green and made par. When we began to build our first important course, the one at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, we favored the style of Robert Trent Jones, the leading architect of the time. Dye is one of only four golf course architects enshrined in the World Golf Hall of Fame. I remember this course from the Big Ten Championship we played there in 2011, and I remember at the end walking out to our van and saw Pete Dye there, getting into his car that actually had a custom license plate that had “Dye” in it. Some of the pictures here are mine, and other I found just poking around on the internet. Dye’s original courses were different from the most recent ones, and many of the different parts of his courses came about by copying the ideas from designers before him. Check out the 18th of recently played Dye course at PGA Golf Club (again). doesn’t look anything like the ones that came before it, and that said about?As much as a legacy as his courses will be, the impact he We built Long Cove together in 1981, and I’ve The Kampen course at the 36-hole Purdue University Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex is a Pete Dye design named in honor of Purdue supporter, Emerson Kampen, and it's one of the nation’s top collegiate courses. These types of mini bunkers exist on his courses both near the green as well as in fairways. In the image I posted after that round (below) I mentioned some of those same things and compared him to Pablo Picasso which is somewhat random. It’s hard to see full par 5s if the picture isn’t from a drone, but from the picture below, you can see the first turn on the bottom left around the bunker, and the second turn is on the right  side around the lake and towards the green. We've compiled his top courses as rated on Golf Advisor by regular golfers like you. The second to last course I played was the Pete Dye course at PGA Village. Starting with probably the most well known feature on so many Dye courses is him (or his wife) using planks of wood all over his courses. In the early 1960s when Alice and I decided to try to build golf courses, the game was played by walking golfers with wooden headed clubs, steel shafts and a moderately lively ball on inch high blue grass fairways. Starting with the 13th hole at Harbour Town Golf Links, and using a quote from his speech, Dye made a comment about the start of him using boards on the bunkers. Though the only picture I was able to find of this hole was by a company that prints the images on posters. profession. The guy teeing off is on one of the forward tees, but there are tees way back to make the hole play 458 yards. Though really, if you look up any picture of Whistling Straits you’ll see bunkers everywhere. Another that comes to mind right away is the 9th hole at Sawgrass. After producing ten courses and revising around a dozen others, the course at Crooked Stick in Carmel, Indiana, was heavily influenced by what the Dyes had seen in Great Britain the previous year. Keith Cutten in The Evolution of Golf Course Design has this to say about the architect: “Pete Dye continued to design golf courses well into his early nineties. Everyone knows the hole from watching the Players every year. But those who’ve known, worked with, and befriended the man throughout his career are quick to point out that Pete Dye is as unique as the course’s he’s produced.”. characteristics totally opposite to contemporary golf architecture Course info, tidbits about the field, who and what to watch out for, and even some weekly fantasy player picks for your favorite fantasy golf site along with other golf related articles you're guaranteed (maybe) to find interesting. Pete in the 1970s at Amelia Island Plantation. started playing golf courses, I felt that every hole looked the same, If you have other pics from Dye courses and want them in this post, hit us up on twitter with them, I’ll post them in here if they’re good and link back to your twitter account as well. Now most holes, by designers in general, if there’s a hazard or very difficult area on one side of the hole, leave the other side of the fairway open for tee shots to bail out on. Dozens of others have since appeared across thirty seven US states and more than twenty different countries. He was an architect of three 18-hole courses on the Grand Strand, and they are all … In honor of his Hall of Fame career, here’s a list of his top 10 courses, or at least his ten most memorable and As one commentator writes: “Pete’s courses will live on for generations, challenging, intriguing, befuddling, exasperating, and delighting golfers long after he himself is gone. thought he was an absolute genius and a lunatic! What Courses Has Pete Dye Designed? Because of how easy it is to know you’re playing a Dye course, I figured it would be useful to write down and add some pics of all of the features of a distinct Dye course. They allowed me to watch and learn and they never held anything back. Here’s a cool ariel shot of the hole. Three golf courses at the Paiute Golf Resort, all designed by renowned architect Pete Dye, lie more than 1000 feet above the Las Vegas strip providing cooler golf and a welcome escape from urban bustle. Personally, I can say Pete Dye was one of the most Set out within a gated estate, the Dye course at the Barefoot Resort is the only semi-private layout at this fantastic four-course facility. Recently I was in Florida and played a few courses around there. when Pete passed away in 2020: “He and Alice had made such an direction and style of golf architecture around the world for the Pete Dye celebrated his 91st birthday on Dec. 29. Here’s the 16th hole, a par 4 with the long bunker next to the green that guards against the pond to the left. Two main reasons account for this anomaly: Dye’s on-site presence throughout the construction of a project; and his passion to personally shape golf course features, utilizing various forms of construction equipment.”, Alice Dye commented as follows in Secrets of the Great Golf Course Architects by Michael Patrick Shiels: “Pete and I were members of the Country Club of Indianapolis and, as greens chairman, Pete finally killed most of the fairway grasses. But also note the mini bunkers on the right side of the green, and the long bunkers on the left side of the hole that semi-guard against balls rolling left so they stay out of the trees. To contact the golf shop, please call 1-888-Pete Dye (1-888-738-3393) or (540) 633-6732. Opened in January 2011, Black Pearl starts almost at the ocean’s edge before gradually climbing into the surrounding hills. Here’s the tee shot on the 3rd hole at the Dye course at PGA Golf Club recently played. So I got a chance to build back in Indianapolis. Finally, another one from Whistling Straits 11th hole. Multiple bunkers, and even space between bunkers is guarded by wood planks. That’s a Dye design for you. He even competed in the 1957 U.S. Open where he finished ahead of both Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Then, he and Alice redirected golf architecture again He has an interesting article here from a book he wrote outlining his design philosophies. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Biggest example here is Sawgrass 18. Finally for now, here’s the 18th hole at Dye’s course at Colleton River Club, a course I had never heard of before looking for Pete Dye course pics online. At Long Cove, for example, you come to a hole and it Pete Dye never thought golf was meant to be fair, inspiring him to build courses that were visually intimidating: The island green at TPC Sawgrass. Of course, they’re not all Pete Dye designs because sons Perry and P.B. “Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?”. associate of Pete Dye, had this to say on his demise: “I first met [1] He was married to fellow designer and amateur champion Alice Dye. Dye attended the Asheville School in North Carolina with his brother Andy before entering the US Army aged 18, enlisting with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. just as happy working on a golf course in a housing development as he World Golf Hall of Fame – Class of 2008: Pete Dye has designed more than 100 courses in North America, the Dominican Republic, Israel, and Switzerland. That’s the double dogleg here. Indeed, the design baton was passed on to the next Dye generations a while before his passing. And she was smarter than I was, she didn’t use those railroad ties, she put cypress boards outside of the bunker. That’s because Pete Dye loves designing courses with difficult, and especially memorable, 18th holes. He changed the way we think about golf course design, and how design works…Because of the attention that Pete Dye-designed courses have brought to the game, there are lots of people who are now able to make a living at golf course design. A number of prominent architects worked for Pete Dye down the years, people like Dan Blankenship, Bill Coore, Brian Curley, Tom Doak, Tim Liddy, Lee Schmidt, Bobby Weed and Rod Whitman, and without a doubt each and every one of them are better at their craft for having worked with the old master. also paid tribute to Pete after he died: “I remember distinctly He won the Indiana State Amateur the following year, took part in The Amateur Championship in 1963 and participated in five US Amateurs. In this case, Alice gets the credit for those staircases. with the creation of TPC Sawgrass, a course that would dictate the How about the 18th hole at the Meadow Valley course at Blackwolf Run. You can see the first part of the fairway at the top of the pic angling to the right of the green, and then the second shot, if you’re laying up but over the water, needing to be aimed to the left of the green. The death of Pete Dye leaves a huge crater in the golf design firmament. There are plenty more bunkers on basically every course Dye designs, so again, send pics over on Twitter if you have them from your favorite Dye courses. Another pic from PGA Golf Club, with somewhat comical mini bunkers in this case on the 4th hole. TPC Sawgrass at Ponte Vedra, Harbour Town on Hilton Head Island (in collaboration with Jack Nicklaus) and The Golf Club in New Albany, Ohio soon followed, with Teeth of the Dog at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic attracting much attention on the world stage. PGA Golf Club (Dye) Port St. Lucie, Fla. Just think of this as following an account on twitter, except it's over email, the account only tweets once a week, and you don't have to actively waste time looking at all the other garbage tweets. More recently built courses don’t have the large, standard looking bunkers that Radrick Farms has, but rather mini bunkers all over the place. There’s a picture above in the long bunker section that shows the green of the hole, but here’s a pic that shows the fairway. This is the tee shot on the par 3 8th hole, somewhat shady, but you can see the mini bunkers everywhere. Another one from memory, this time from watching it during this past year’s CareerBuilder Challenge out at PGA West, is the 16th hole at the Stadium course there. And what better course-design guru to choose as our focal point than Pete Dye? Three years before Pete was born, Pink designed and built a 6-hole course on sixty acres of farmland belonging to his wife’s family and when he got older, his son Paul (who was known as P.D. That’s Pete Dye for you. The 2012 US Women’s Open was held at Blackwolf Run; the Championship course comprised the back nine of the Meadow Valleys layout (featuring water on the last three holes) plus holes 1-4 and 14-18 of the River course. … Located close to the old logging town of Hayward, this course lets nature and the game of golf exist together in total harmony. work in the family business, as did his late brother Andy and his children Andy, Matt (also now deceased) and Cynthia. Makes that bunker shot decently impossible to get up and down. Pete Dye, who died at the age of 94 last Thursday, left his mark on the Myrtle Beach golf market. The golf facility at Bridgewater Club in Carmel is a late 1990s Pete Dye design and there are actually two golfing layouts set within a 750-acre woodland property: an 18-hole Championship course and a 9-hole Executive course. his creativity.”. Putting your email address means you'll sign up for a weekly newsletter previewing everything you'll want to know about the upcoming week's PGA Tour event. American Pete Dye is become one of the most iconic golf course designers of all time and when you take a look at some of the courses below, it … It was this layout that really put them on the golfing map when it opened to critical acclaim. Pete Dye H ere’s an interesting theme for a golf trip: destination by architect. Nobody could ever accuse it of being boring. From Birdies to Bunkers: Discover how Golf can bring Love, Humor and Success into your Life (2004) by Alice Dye with Mark Shaw. World Golf Hall of Fame – Class of 2008: Pete Dye has designed more than 100 courses in North America, the Dominican Republic, Israel, and Switzerland. Dye also designed Purdue’s Kampen Course which opened in the late 90s. the most influential golf architects in the history of the which eventually lapsed into Pete) would help out with routine maintenance while he was still a young boy. Pete Dye made a career of knowing that most golfers are easily seduced and that the brain is the weakest club in the bag. Dye has very specific ones that I’ve already mentioned above, but we have one more to talk about. I said, there’s a good bulldozer operator named T.P., can you take him over to the 13th hole and do something. Born the son of Paul Francis (“Pink”) and Elizabeth Dye in 1925, Pete more than likely inherited his work ethic from his father who was, at various times, a politician, bar owner, insurance agent and postmaster in his hometown of Urbana in Champaign County, Ohio. Sign up here to get the weekly preview in your inbox. He loves to see his courses evolve as the construction progresses, which allows his genius to resonate across the entire property… It’s as if he’s painting a masterpiece without having any directions to follow.”, Bill Coore commented Check out their picture of the 14th tee shot with water hazard to the left and the bunker between fairway and that water. Back in the 1960’s, when golfers walked hard fairways and unwatered rough, carrying wooden headed clubs with steel shafts, Pete Keep in mind here that these things are not the case with every Dye course in existence. He decided what he really wanted to do was build golf courses.”, Tom Doak's Little Red Book of Golf Course Architecture: "I owe my whole career to Pete and Alice Dye and their sons, Perry and P.B. Here’s the 11th hole at Whistling Straits, giant bunker in front of the par 5’s green with wood on the face of the bunker. How about the third hole at The Golf Club, New Albany, Ohio? ( Log Out /  TPC Sawgrass Designers: Pete Dye (Stadium Course); Pete Dye, Jerry Pate, and Bobby Weed (Dye’s Valley). Because the lips are so large in these cases, Dye always seems to include a staircase to help you climb out. “Pete inspired us all to think outside the box. All members of the Dye Family of architects are iconoclastic in their own way, none more so than Cynthia Dye McGarey. In another quote from that article he discusses his designs of Crooked Stick where he takes greens from UofM’s main course, an Alister McKenzie design, and uses them on Crooked Stick. Dress Code Members and guests of the Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech are expected to be dressed in appropriate golf attire using the following guidelines: The daughter of Pete’s late brother Roy Dye, Cynthia is not only a rarity in the male-dominated field of course I can hardly approve a feature Seven Courses Play on some of the most unique courses in the country by golfing at any of the Pete Dye Golf Trail’s 7 courses. The hole is actually so difficult with the carry on the second shot that there’s a side green on the left side (hidden in the picture) so sometimes you don’t have to carry. Dye Golf Courses: Fifty Years of Visionary Design (2008) by Joel Zuckerman contains appreciations from three of the greatest golfers turned architects who have ever lived. but when I saw Pete’s work, I realized they didn’t have to be Pete Dye is just one of the most distinct modern day architects. Double dogleg par 5s are perfect examples of this. Club in Ohio, and I was mesmerized by what he had done. about Pete is that he didn’t really have much of an ego; he was One of Pete Dye’s early masterworks, this men’s-only domain in suburban Columbus was where Jack Nicklaus was introduced to design, as an unpaid consultant. How many designers could that be Note the size of that giant greenside bunker, description of that coming later. In case you don’t remember, the course has hosted plenty of big events, mainly though, the Ryder Cup and PGA Championship. This idea actually brings up another big part of Dye courses where on every shot, he makes you decide where exactly to hit the ball In these par 5 cases, either lay up to a specific yardage, or going for the green, no in between. Alice will not allow bathtub bunkers. This is the 18th green taken from the fairway, a difficult hole (like tons of final holes are on Dye courses) and a bunch of small bunkers hiding the green from view (another common feature of Dye courses). Paul Dye Jr. (December 29, 1925 – January 9, 2020), known as Pete Dye, was an American golf course designer and a member of a family of course designers. had on those fortunate to work with him may be more enduring.”, Bruce Charlton from Pete Dye never thought golf was meant to be fair, inspiring him to build courses that visually intimidated recreational players to the best in the world. Routed around the wandering waterways of Chicken Creek and Little River, the 18-hole layout at Atlanta National Golf Club is a late 1980s co-design from Pete and P.B. Dye's earliest courses in the 1960s, such at Harbour Town Golf Links, placed a premium on precision, hewing to … I told him to his face Robert Trent Jones II also paid his respects on Pete’s passing: He was 94. This is the green at the second hole, check out the bunker that guards the water until the front part of the green, and then wood planks on the edge. Note the wood used on that bunker as well, and how it’s somewhat far from the green. “Golf … Besides the long fairway style bunkers that guard water hazards, another style of bunkers you’ll see a lot at Pete Dye courses and mini bunkers. If you want a full example, check out this cartoon-ish yardage guide of TPC Sawgrass. The Dyes married and brought two sons, Perry Dye and Paul Burke Dye, into the world after moving to Alice’s hometown of Indianapolis in Indiana, where they were both gainfully employed in insurance – Alice with Connecticut Mutual and Pete as a salesman for his father’s firm, Northwestern Mutual. next two decades. Very often in bunkers, but also on greens and fairways as well. When I first thought of Dye courses, I knew that Radrick Farms didn’t exactly fit with these current features, and his comment about the course proves that true. A composite 18 holes from both the River and Meadow Valleys courses was used when the LPGA US Open was played here in 1998. energizes the golfer.”, Bobby Weed, a former But if the tee shot ends up on that safe side of the fairway, there can either be something like a viewing cover, or tough angle into the green to give some penalty for not hitting the fairway. pgatour.com‘s analysis gets credit. like that. At each turn of the Pete Dye Golf Trail, you'll have the pleasure of testing the game's greatest architect on golf courses in his own backyard. ", Jack Nicklaus writes: “What Pete Dye has done for the game of golf is something for which we should all be thankful. Change ). Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. amazing team in life and golf. This private club with public access has three courses, the toughest being Dye’s, which took inspiration from the courses of Britain for its bunkering (big waste areas and little pots), giant mounds, and wide-open landing areas that … Remember that quote at the top of the post about his design at Radrick Farms, and how at first he built “long tees and large bunkers alongside big sloping greens”? golf twice, first with Harbour Town, an old-world design with If you like variation, entertainment and interesting holes, Barbaroux is the course for you. Assuming of course there isn’t a lake on one side of the hole with the long and thin bunkers. Speaking of Purdue courses, the Pete Dye newly redesigned Ackerman-Allen course in West Lafayette has plenty of Pete Dye features. Double dogleg par 5s are defined as a hole where the golfer is forced to aim the tee shot either towards the left or right side of the green, and then the layup is forced to be aimed at the opposite side. After a long battle with dementia, Pete died in January 2020 but his golf course legacies will live on. Pete Dye, one of golf’s most well-known architects, died Thursday, according to a statement put out by his family. One of his first comments about his philosophy is about Radrick Farms course in Ann Arbor, which I played so many times back when I was on Michigan’s team with practice rounds and even a tournament there my freshman year. a 45-year relationship. Here’s the 16th hole, a par 4 with the long bunker next to the green that guards against the pond to the left. He was 94. Another big, common feature about Dye courses, that isn’t seen too often with other designers, are long and thin fairway bunkers that are between the fairway and a water hazard to one side of a hole. He really enjoyed Pond to the right, and helpful waste bunker between that lake and the fairway. The idea of these bunkers, first off, is that they look very pretty. So if anyone has a better pic that shows the double dogleg, send it over! That being said, time to start with Whistling Straits. Dye passed away early in 2020, but he'll be talked about for decades to come by golfers, just as previous golf course architecture giants are still talked about (and debated) today. influential people in my life.”, Forrest Richardson But it's more than that. Golf course architect Pete Dye is known for island greens, but here are some more memorable hole designs from his portfolio, from TPC Sawgrass to Whistling Straits and Kiawah Island. Debuting in 2004, the 18-hole layout at Big Fish Golf Club is a new millennium Pete Dye design. The par-72, 7215-yard course is part of an upscale residential community featuring nature trails, 40 acres of parks, clubhouse with swimming, fitness, tennis, dining, bowling and more. been building golf courses ever since. One of the famous holes at Sawgrass that doesn’t have a bunker guarding the water is the 18th, and I’ll discuss the reason for that later as well. Pretty sure I didn’t hit it in there during that state open at the course, but I remembered the huge lip and made sure I didn’t end up in there with the second shot. Teed it up at the Dye course at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie today. It will never be filled, no matter how many metric tons of earth top names like Gil Hanse, Tom Doak and Bill Coore – great architects all – move to Speaking of Purdue courses, the Pete Dye newly redesigned Ackerman-Allen course in West Lafayette has plenty of Pete Dye features. Whistling Straits has to be the main course to mention here, which apparently has 1000 bunkers. What I admired most Pete Dye had a huge impact on the golf world through his career as a golf course architect, influencing generations of other course designers, not to mention golfers, golf fans and golf tours. A post shared by Golf on the Mind (@golfonthemind) on Mar 7, 2017 at 3:43pm PST. We copied his technique of building long tees and large bunkers alongside big sloping greens at the university’s Radrick Farms course. Remodeled in the 1960s by Larry Packard and rebuilt by Pete Dye in 1997, the course staged the 1961 NCAA Men's Championships, won by Jack Nicklaus. Need a drone to get better pic from above. ( Log Out /  Nobody else would hire me, so Alice optioned some ground and raised some money, and we started Crooked Stick. Pete's enthusiasm for the work of golf course construction is the same example I try to set for everyone around me, and his battle of wits with great players was a master class in design. that I had played holes of his where – in the same hole – I Dye spent five years and hundreds of hours crafting a championship course at Chatham Hills, a new course and community located in Westfield, Ind. and now the green area of the 11th hole, a double dogleg par 5 (something I’ll get into later), which also has a bunker between the grass and water. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Pete Dye Golf Club - Royal Course 1209 Ishikami, Osawa-machi Imaichi-shi, Tochigi 321-2341 Phone: 011-81-288-26-0011 E-Mail: petedye_royal@pacificgolf.co.jp Designer: Perry and Pete Dye … Alice was a good player who would become a great one (winning nine Indiana Women’s Amateur titles, eleven Indianapolis City Championships and a couple of US Senior Women’s Amateur Championships) and her competitive female perspective certainly played a big part in Pete’s design decisions down the years. Final one for now is the 16th at Kiawah Island, another one of the big Dye courses. Pete Dye's golf course designs set the bar for innovation, creativity and challenge. Nonetheless, Pete still hankered after a career in the world of golf. 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