[John Shimp]

Any recent thouhts or plays here?  Ive heard its really good but 2 very different Dye 9's.  Ive been thinking of trying to get to savannah to play it.

[Tom_Doak]

John:

I lived on that project (briefly) in the winter of 1984 when they were building the first nine holes [the nine in the woods].  The other nine out on the rice paddies didn't get built until several years later.  The old plantation was a cool setting for a course, some great live oaks on the original nine ... I'd go back if I was in the area.

[Randy Thompson]

I am pretty sure the front nine was Pete and the back nine was PB. There was a pretty big difference between the nine´s. I saw the entire eighteen just before they went from maintaining the assett to devloping the property with changes being planned for the golf also but never saw it afterwards.

[Tom_Doak]

I am pretty sure the front nine was Pete and the back nine was PB. There was a pretty big difference between the nine´s. I saw the entire eighteen just before they went from maintaining the assett to devloping the property with changes being planned for the golf also but never saw it afterwards.

Randy:

Pete was involved with the front nine, but PB was living there and running the job and directing all the shaping.  I don't know who did the back nine.

[John Shimp]

Thanks for the comments.   I didnt realize PB was heavily involved that early in big aspects of Pete's work.  Did he play a large role in many marquis Pete Dye courses? 

It amazes me how much really good Dye there is along 100 miles of sc/ga coast.  (ocean, harbour town, long cove, colleton river, ogeechee, debordieu, and a few others).  Most of the rest of the last 40 years courses down that way pale in comparison. 

[Joel Zuckerman]

I have played that golf course about a dozen times in the last 10 or 12 years, and I think you would enjoy it very much.... the front nine is a very traditional routing through the woods, while the back nine is wide open and windblown.

The Ford plantation is a very quiet place, they do not do many rounds at all, and the juxtaposition between the two nines is the reason the course is memorable.

Let me know if you end up in this direction, and perhaps we can get together to play golf or at least meet up in person if your schedule allows.

[Bill Hyde]

I was just down in the Dominican Republic and happened upon PB who lives near a course I was playing there. He spotted a Scioto tag on my bag and stopped his cart and came over and introduced himself and chatted for a bit. He is a real character. Kind of a Ned Beatty/Yosemite Sam combo platter. Anyway, I told him I was from a club in Detroit where Doak had just done some work and mentioned that the two of them must have worked together in the past. He smiled and said "We didn't work together, he worked for me. I chuckled and he said again "He worked for me." I think he was being facetious, but I'm not really sure. Definite character, nonetheless.

[John Shimp]

Joel,
I will. Thanks for the offer.

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