Tag Archives: Pete Dye
Pete and Alice Dye Golf Experience @ The Children’s Museum
On your next trip to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, show up ready to play some golf, with a putter. There are four nine-hole miniature golf courses that you can play at the Pete and Alice Dye Golf Experience presented by Henry and Christine Camferdam, two of which were actually designed by Pete and Alice […]
Pete & PB Dye: Mirror Images of One Another
By Mike May Authentic, Genuine, Dedicated, and Passionate, those four words best describe the personal and professional life of the late World Golf Hall-of-Fame course architect, Pete Dye. Sadly, the world lost Dye when he died two years ago, January 9, 2020 at the age of, 94. Fortunately, his legacy of work, of this longtime Hoosier resident, remains intact, thanks to the many golf courses, which he designed and redesigned over the […]
MAPLE CREEK GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB: PETE DYE’s 1st COURSE
By Mike May While world-renowned golf course architect, Pete Dye was born in Ohio and is famous for designing some of the most ‘dye-abolical’ courses in the world. The Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, host of the The Players Championship, the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, site of the 2021 PGA Championship, as well as, […]
Pete & PB Dye: Mirror Images of One Another
Authentic. Genuine. Dedicated and Passionate best describe the life of the late hall of fame golf course architect, Pete Dye. Dye passed away on January 9, 2020 at the age of 94, but the Ohio native’s legacy remains intact, in the many great golf courses he created over the years. Dye’s work as a golf […]
Fabled Course Designer, Pete Dye Passes at the age of 94
“The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top…golf is not a fair game so why build a fair golf course.” This quote from Pete Dye can be found inscribed at the base of the bronze statue that sits near the clubhouse of the Dye Course at French Lick. […]
Pete Dye is Struggling with Alzheimer’s
One of only four golf course architects enshrined in the World Golf Hall of Fame, Pete Dye is struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease. Dye brought significant change to golf course design and is responsible for The Golf Club, Harbour Town, railroad ties, Whistling Straits, The Ocean Course at Kiawah, the island green, TPC Sawgrass and a […]