Not sure if you guys have seen this article:
http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/the-players-championship/news/2013/05/07/dorman-column-players-greatest-stadium.htmlTo to sum it up: Dye is coming back to add some distance to some of the par 4's.
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And there’s also a little something more you should know about Pete Dye, who has slowed down not one bit as he approaches the halfway mark of his 87th year. Still on top of his game, he is busily at work, finishing one course renovation project in Ocean Ridge, Fla., and planning for two others to begin in the summer, including a renovation of The Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio.
After he’s finished with his upcoming obligations, Dye said, he would “like to go back and do a little bit more work on the TPC Sawgrass.”
What he has in mind, though, has nothing to do with softening contours. It has to do with lengthening and toughening four of the par-4 holes at the Stadium Course that he believes have been shortened by the distances current players hit their drivers and irons.
He’s talking about substantially lengthening: No. 5, currently 471 yards; No. 7, currently 442 yards; No. 14, currently 481 yards; No. 18, currently 462 yards.
“They might as well expand it, because these pros are just hitting it so far now that these long par-4 holes are not challenging them anymore,” Dye said. “We could that. It would be simple. There’s plenty of land. There’s room to do it.”
It would require some room because Dye is thinking the holes should measure in the 520-yard neighborhood, which would mean adding approximately 240 yards to the overall golf course.
“I’ve talked to Mr. Finchem about it,” Dye said. “He’s hesitant to do it, but he’ll do it someday. It has to be done. To make those guys hit a 3-iron or 4-iron for their second shot, you’ve got to do it.”
After all, it didn’t get to be Golf’s Greatest Stadium by maintaining the status quo.