Tribute to Pete and Alice Dye

[Adam Clayman]

Understated elegance seems to fit for a theme.

Perhaps you could cramp each seating with some form of water hazard?
 

A D-4 might also be appropriate? (Was that the model he used on his backyard to learn how to move dirt?)

[John Shimp]

Honors Course may be worth including.  A top 100 in almost every list.  Real quality architecture and green and surrounds maintenance.   Also a really tough construction project.  It is my favorite Dye course.

[Brian Joines]

Consider doing a section on Dye employees who have gone on to successful architectural careers. Those people are part of their legacy.

I know Doak worked for him.  Who else?

Tim Liddy quickly comes to mind. He's done some great stuff around my area (Indiana)

[Mike Vegis @ Kiawah]

Here's what I have so far.  Any refinement?

Dye’s Tribute Themes

·   Playing accomplishments of the Dyes.  Not only are they world class architects, they know about playing competitive golf.

·   Struggling during the early years – from insurance salesman to course designer -- First course – Country Club of Indianapolis

·   Pete's hands-on approach to building courses.

·   How Pete and Alice borrowed ideas from abroad that were incorporated into their courses and design style, i.e. Prestwick – "The Innovative Traditionalist"

·   Ocean Course and the environment (recirculation the irrigation water, Audubon)

·   1991 Ryder Cup

·   Building challenges of The Ocean Course (i.e. post Hugo)

·   Alice’s impact on par 3s and elevating fairways

·   Distinctive features of Dye Courses—Railway ties, pot bunkers, etc.

·   Major impact of Harbour Town, Long Cove – "Bridging Designs" i.e. from traditional to modern

·   Crooked Stick – First Major Championship

·   Top foreign courses – Teeth of the Dog

·   Stadium Courses – Sawgrass and PGA West

·   Architects that have come out of his “stable” – Doak, Coore

·   University courses –Purdue University (others?)

·   Top private courses

·   Top public courses

·   Magazine rankings of his courses

·   Whistling Straits and the PGA Championship

·   Work donated

·   Dye kids take a stab at architecture

[Mark Bourgeois]

university courses: va tech, one of the oklahoma ones i think and maybe karsten?

[John Shimp]

Mike,
Looks like a good list.  I'm not sure what you mean by "bridging designs from traditional to modern"?  I would argue that Dye went from Modern/Penal ala Trent back to
traditional of a sort.  Is that what you mean?  Look at "The Golf Club" writeup if you disagree.
JS

[ChipRoyce]

Mike,
   I think an area that demonstrates how Pete and Alice borrowed ideas from abroad that were incorporated into their courses and design style.
   Also showing Pete's hands-on approach to building courses would be good.

Ed;
I like that idea. In fact, could be neat to mimic the 'Bunker Bar' at Bandon. Imagine a display that has a photo of a classic course feature on the left and then to the right, Pete & Alice's interpretation in a modern context?

[Forrest Richardson]

I think you might get details of loads of "Pete-isms" in three catagories:

1.  Course details and designs (sleepers, pots, harbor town icon, boxcar bridge, etc.)

2.  Quotes (these should be easy to get!!)

3.  Contributions (Alice's work to get womens yardage/tees appropriate, the family's many Protégés [people who worked for Dyes], and their work on behalf of ASGCA)

These could all be like-framed, perhaps 12x12 inches, and in photo format. They would be easy to see and communicate quickly about the legacy.

[Tony Ristola]

Construction photos.
A computer screen with them commenting about their various courses.

[JWL]

Mike

It has been mentioned already, sort of, but I was thinking that it might be a nice display in the clubhouse to have the Pete Dye tree displayed.   I believe that you can find the latest version of that in the Architects of Golf.

I would think that that display might be an interesting read by visitors to the facility.   Just my .02.

[Doug Sobieski]

university courses: va tech, one of the oklahoma ones i think and maybe karsten?

The first 18-hole design he ever did was Radrick Farms, the University of Michigan alumni course.

[Norbert P]

Any benches could be made out of railroad ties......

 The creosote may bleed into the unsuspecting Dockers and Pringle-clad.  Not the "Dye" impression I think their wanting, eh?  

 
  Mike V., if you want a great personal story of the Dye's, the tome written by Andrew Coogan is a charmer.  It is in Paul Daley's Worldwide Perspective of Golf - Volume 3.  Lucky as I have been, I got to hear the story from Andy, complete with Scottish accent and true venerable emotions toward the Dye's, during dinner while in Barnbougle last year.  Fascinating on many levels.  I (We?) tend to forget that these "celebrities" are human before they become personalities of their professions.