Sweens,
Good for you..you and your New York media friends know more about golf than ole stupid Indiana Pete Dye. Where did Dye go to school..Cornell? Just keep flying buddy.
Oh John.
I am just a consumer, and consumers get to make choices.
My media friends consist of the Silda Spitzer-like moms on The Rebecca Reader, our school newspaper. I am the Sports Columnist but nobody seems to care about golf architecture!
It appears that the Midwesterners know how to manipulate the New York media better than me. From Pete Dye's Wall Street Journal article:
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Why are his courses so hard? "You might as well ask why people who are members of perfectly good golf clubs fly to Scotland and Ireland to play golf in the rain for a week and never come close to breaking 90," he said. Most of his designs are for destination resorts that people will only play a handful of times a year—and difficulty seems to be what they are after.
"I don't understand golfers one lick," he said. "Personally, if I couldn't break 90 on a course, I'd probably never want to play it again."
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Sounds to me like Pete Dye, from his own words, is building courses for the "Hit and Run" market which you so disdain. With all your memberships and all those great Pete Dye courses out there, how come no Pete Dye membership in the Kavanaugh resume?
How many trips have you made to Kohler versus Bandon?
I will admit that my Raynor love is a complete double standard: