Top 10 Courses: Caribbean
Here’s our list of the top 10 courses in the islands of the Caribbean 1 TEETH OF THE DOG, La Romana, Dominican Republic Pete Dye’s 1971 masterpiece for the Casa de Campo resort remains the gem of the islands. Its seven seaside holes are the stars, but Dye’s creative genius is evident from start to […]
7 Exceptional Holes that Bring the Ocean into Play
In his fictional work The Old Man and the Sea, author Ernest Hemingway described the ocean as “something that gave or withheld great favors.” He also opined that the sea could do “wild or wicked things,” but that such things could not be avoided. While the novella chronicled the heroic and sometimes futile attempts of […]
Dramatic Par Threes: One-Shot Wonders
Whether it requires a mere flip of a wedge or a big swing with a fairway wood, a par-three hole has the ability to not only immortalize a golf course—it can define a player’s entire round. “It’s what we remember because it’s only one shot,” resort developer Mike Keiser says of a par three. “They’re […]
Remembering Pete Dye
Pete Dye picked me up at the airport. It was 1988 and I’d flown to Palm Beach to interview him. He told me he’d have a rental car because he and wife Alice were on the road so much they didn’t keep a car at their Florida home, just rented whenever they were there. He’d […]
The Best Pete Dye Golf Courses You Can Play
The brilliant mind of Pete Dye is on view every year as the Players Championship unfolds at TPC Sawgrass. A one-time swamp that the former insurance salesman transformed into a golf course in 1980, the place has seen plenty of controversy in its time, and certain holes (17?) will forever divide opinion. After numerous alterations, […]
Pete Dye: The Most Influential Architect of his Era
No architect of our time has had an impact equal to that of the former insurance salesman from Indiana
