Archive for 'Pete Dye'
Quick Update on Scheduling!
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 [...]
Pete Dye – The Pink Floyd of Golf Course Architects
[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 [...]
Pete Dye to Build New Course at Casa de Campo
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 [...]
Pete Dye Day Trips: PGA Golf Club, Bulle Rock, Brickyard Crossing
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 [...]
Oh, That is Cool! Droid App Debuts for Casa de Campo Teeth of the Dog
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 [...]
Back 9 Network ran my Pete Dye Day Trips Article
Back 9 Network Ran my Pete Dye day trips article. As usual, they do a great job with it!
Pete Dye Interview on Casa de Campo in Prep for GolFantasy
[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 [...]
Intrigued by Fantasy Golf Vacations? Interview With GolFantasy Lays out the Details for Casa de Campo
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 rejoinder seems to be the expensive and [...]
The Pour on the Shore! Rory McIlroy Wins the 2012 PGA Championship
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 [...]
Tiger Says he’s Back, PGA Leaderboard at Halfway Mark Concurs
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) [...]
How to Read a Pete Dye Golf Course
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 [...]
The 2012 PGA Championship – It’s not Glory’s Best Shot This Year
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 [...]
2012 PGA Championship Preview – Pete Dye Interview on Kiawah
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 [...]
My Interview with Pete Dye will be in the PGA Championship Program
So my preview for this year’s PGA Championship will not only be another hilarious laugh-a-minute romp with Kiawah Island course architect Pete Dye, but will also be in the PGA Championship program! Here’s a taste: JF: We hear some interesting things happened while you were building Kiawah Island? PD: Oh I got plenty of stories! [...]
Traverse Rock City, Exile on Fishers Island
I recently wrote that Tom Doak’s rise to prominence as one of the two greatest living golf architects most closely resembles the career arc of a band that’s a shoo-in for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Phish. Like Phish, Doak conquered the World, and did it his way showing everyone that all the [...]