Who is pete dye

Their first big design came in with Crooked Stick, which later hosted the PGA Championship, but they are arguably best known for creating the home of The Players Championship. Together, Pete and Alice made a formidable team in golf and life. Pete Dye, 94, was one of the game's legendary course architects.

Here's what social media had to say after he died Thursday. In recent years, however, Dye battled Alzheimer's Disease. All that creativity and imagination. Pete and his late wife, Alice, formed the greatest force in golf design history. Click here to read more on Dye's life and legacy via Golf Advisor. The course additionally serves as a living laboratory, combining turfgrass research and environmental studies. Pete was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in He is only the 5th architect to be inducted to the Hall in the Lifetime Achievement category.

As an architect, Alice joined with her husband, Pete, in the design and construction of their first course, El Dorado, now called Dye's Walk Country Club, in Indianapolis. Alice has been the leading crusader for making courses manageable for women. Small greens, pot bunkers, short, potentially drivable par-4 holes, undulating fairways, often wider than they looked from the teeing ground, and wooden bulkheads were among the features he began to integrate into his own work.

Thus inspired, and through most of the second half of the twentieth century, Pete and Alice Dye methodically and undauntedly created a roll call of the game's most talked-about, prominent, and popular courses.

The names of their creations are as familiar to avid golfers as the very clubs they carry in their own bag. Crooked Stick. Harbour Town. The Ocean Course. Whistling Straits. Blackwolf Run. Teeth of the Dog. Oak Tree. PGA West. Opens, the U. Just as impressive as the 'household name' courses the Dye's created through the decades is the list of apprentices, underlings, associates and assistants who learned from 'the master,' and went on to prominence themselves.

Also on this list would be the Dye's two sons, Perry and P. Like their parents, the siblings are members of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, making the Dyes the only nuclear family in the Society. Unlike the aforementioned, Alice Dye never once lifted a shovel full of dirt, never climbed aboard an earth mover or bulldozer of any kind. But nobody had more sway with Pete, nobody could influence his perspective on making a golf course fair for all players, be they young or old, man or woman, skilled or neophyte, as could Alice.

The honors she's received throughout her career don't match the number of championships won, but it's close. Just as was the case during their competitive playing careers, Pete's trophy case has more room than his wife's.