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Paul Dye Jr. (December 29, 1925 – January 9, 2020), known as Pete Dye, was an American
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and a member of a family of course designers. He was married to fellow designer and amateur champion Alice Dye.


Early life

Dye was born on December 29, 1925, in
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. He was the son of Paul F. "Pink" and Elizabeth Dye. A few years before Dye's birth, his father became involved with golf and built a nine-hole course on family land in Champaign County called the "Urbana Country Club." As a youngster, he worked and played that course. While attending Urbana High School, he won the Ohio state high school golf championship, and medaled in the state amateur golf championship, all before entering the
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at age 18 in 1944 during
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. Dye first moved to
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, with his parents in 1933 and eventually established his own winter residence there. With his brother Andy, he had attended the
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, a boarding school in
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at
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. Dye entered the
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at Fort Benning in
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to be a
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in the 82nd Airborne Division, but the war ended while he was in training. He was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina where he served the rest of his hitch as
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on the base golf course. Dye explained,
"I played the golf course at Pinehurst No. 2 for six solid months, and I got to know Mr. Donald Ross...(who) had built the Fort Bragg golf course. He would come over and watch us play golf, and most of the time the captain and colonel hauled me over there. They didn't know who Mr. Ross was, but the other fellow walking with him was
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, and they all knew him."
After Dye's discharge, he relocated to
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and enrolled at Rollins College in Winter Park, northeast of
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, where he met his wife, Alice Holliday O'Neal. They were married in early 1950, and had two sons, Perry and P.B. (Paul Burke). They moved to
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to her hometown of Indianapolis, and Dye sold
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."When Pete Dye Speaks, People Listen."
Florida Golf Magazine, Winter 2009
Within a few years, he distinguished himself as a million dollar salesman, and was also successful in amateur golf. Dye won the Indiana amateur championship in 1958, following runner-up finishes in 1954 and 1955. At age 31, he qualified for the in 1957 at Inverness Club in
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, but shot 152 (+12) to miss the cut by two strokes, as did
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; seventeen-year-old amateur Jack Nicklaus was eight strokes behind them at 160."Pete Dye"
Dye Designs website


Design career

Dye made the decision to become a golf course designer in his mid-30s. Alice supported his career change and became partner in the new venture. In 1961, the couple visited and talked to noted golf architect
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, who lived nearby. He warned them about the economic uncertainty of the profession, but they persisted. The first design from Dye and his wife was the nine-hole ''El Dorado'' course south of Indianapolis, which crossed a creek thirteen times. Those nine holes are now incorporated into the Royal Oak course at ''Dye's Walk Country Club''. Their first 18-hole course was created during 1962 in Indianapolis and named Heather Hills, now known as Maple Creek Golf & Country Club. Dye designed the ''Radrick Farms Golf Course'' for the
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in 1962, but the course did not open until 1965. At the time, he was using the design style of Trent Jones, but after seeing the work of
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, who designed the 1931 Michigan course, Dye decided to incorporate features from two greens into his next project. Dye visited
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in 1963 and made a thorough study of its classic courses. The Scottish use of pot bunkers, bulkheads constructed of wood, and diminutive greens influenced his subsequent designs. Dye's first well-known course was
Crooked Stick Golf Club Crooked Stick Golf Club is a golf club located in Carmel, Indiana, a suburb north of Indianapolis. The 18-hole Pete and Alice Dye designed golf course was built in 1964. It has been noted as one of the top 100 courses in the United States by ' ...
in
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, north of Indianapolis, begun in 1964. It hosted the
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in 1991, won by ninth alternate John Daly. In 1967, he designed The Golf Club near Columbus, Ohio, where he solicited input from 27-year-old Jack Nicklaus, an area local who won his seventh major (of 18) that year. The two worked together to design the acclaimed
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, opened in 1969, the site of an annual PGA Tour event ever since. Nicklaus credits Dye with significant influence on his own approach to golf course design. Also in 1969, Dye designed his first course in Florida called Delray Dunes. In 1970, he designed Martingham Golf Course in St. Michaels, Maryland, now known as Harbourtowne Resort. The owners of the project went bankrupt and Dye went unpaid; the course was eventually finished, however, and had many of Dye's signature course characteristics such as deep bunkers, small greens, short challenging par fours, and
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s. In 2015, the property was purchased by Richard D. Cohen who has entered into an agreement with Dye to update and redesign the course. The new owner agreed to pay the funds that were not paid during the original design. In 1986, Dye also designed a course in the
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of
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, near
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, the
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, recognized today as wine golf course. Dye is considered to be one of the most influential course architects in the world. His designs are known for distinctive features, including small greens and the use of
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s to hold bunkers. His design for the Brickyard Crossing golf course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway utilized the dismantled outer retaining wall from the race track. He is known for designing the "world's most terrifying tee shot," the par-3 17th hole of the Stadium Course at
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in
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. Known as the "Island Green," it gained wide notice in 1982, during the first Players Championship at the new course. Dye's designs have been credited with returning short & medium length par fours to golf. Many of the best young golf architects have "pushed dirt" for Pete, including Bill Coore,
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, John Harbottle, Butch Laporte, Tim Liddy, Scott Poole, David Postlewaite, Lee Schmidt, Keith Sparkman, Jim Urbina, Bobby Weed, Rod Whitman, and Abe Wilson.


Later life

Dye received the ''Old Tom Morris Award'' in 2003 from the
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, their highest honor. In 2004, he was the recipient of the PGA Distinguished Service Award, the highest annual honor of the PGA of America, which recognizes individuals who display leadership and humanitarian qualities, including integrity, sportsmanship and enthusiasm for the game of golf. In 2005, Dye became the sixth recipient of the
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. He was inducted into the
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in November 2008 in the ''Lifetime Achievement'' category. The
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bestowed the ''Donald Ross Award'' on Dye in 1995. Dye was named ''Architect of the Year'' by ''
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'' magazine, awarded a ''Doctor of Landscape Architecture'' degree from
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, received Indiana's
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award and was honored as ''Family of the Year'' by the
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. In the last years of his life, Dye suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He died on January 9, 2020.


Courses designed

A partial list of courses that Dye either designed alone or co-designed:


Public

* California ** Carmel Valley Ranch Golf Resort – Carmel Valley Ranch **
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(Dunes Course, Mountain Course) –
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**
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(Stadium Course) – La Quinta ** Lost Canyons Golf Club (Shadow Course, Sky Course) –
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** The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa (South Course) –
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** Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles * Colorado ** The Country Club of Colorado –
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** Plum Creek Golf Club – Castle Rock ** Riverdale Dunes – Brighton ** Gypsum Creek Golf Course –
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** Copper Creek Golf Course – Copper Mountain * Connecticut ** Wintonbury Hills Golf Course – Bloomfield **
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* Florida ** Amelia Island Plantation - Ocean Links -
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** Gasparilla Inn Golf Course – Boca Grande ** Palm Beach Polo (The Cypress Course) –
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** PGA Golf Club (The Dye Course) –
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** River Ridge Golf Course – Harbour Ridge , Palm City – Treasure Coast – Florida Golf Communities **
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(Stadium Course) –
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**
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(Dye Valley Course) -
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* Illinois ** Ruffled Feathers Golf Course – Lemont ** Tamarack Country Club – Shiloh ** Yorktown Golf Course – Belleville * Indiana ** Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex at
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(Ackerman-Allen Course, Kampen Course) –
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** Brickyard Crossing
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** The Club at Chatham Hills (semi-private) – Westfield ** Eagle Creek Golf Club (Pines and Sycamore Courses) at
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Indianapolis ** Forest Park –
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** The Fort Golf Course –
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– Indianapolis ** Greenbelt Golf Course –
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** The Camferdam Golf Experience (The Indianapolis Children's Museum) -
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** Maple Creek Country Club –
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—The very first course designed by Pete (and Alice) Dye in 1961, originally named 'Heather Hills.'https://www.maplecreekgc.com/ ** Mystic Hills Golf Course –
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** Oak Tree Golf Course (front nine) – Plainfield ** The Pete Dye Course –
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** Plum Creek Golf Club – Carmel ** Sahm Golf Course – Indianapolis * Louisiana ** TPC of LouisianaAvondale * Kentucky **Kearney Hill Golf Links – Lexington **Peninsula Golf Course – Lancaster * Maryland **
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Golf Course – Havre de Grace ** The Links at Perry Cabin (formerly Harbourtowne Resort Country Club) – St. Michaels ** Rum Pointe Seaside Golf Links –
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* Nevada ** Paiute Golf Club Resort (Snow Mountain, Sun Mountain, and Wolf Courses) –
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** Desert Pines Golf Club –
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* New York ** Pound Ridge Golf Club
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* North Carolina ** Cardinal by Pete Dye –
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** Founders Golf Course –
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** Oak Hollow Golf Course – High Point * Ohio ** Avalon Lakes –
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** Fowler's Mill GC – Chesterland ** Little Turtle Golf Club – Westerville *Pennsylvania ** Iron Valley Golf Course –
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**
Mystic Rock Mystic Rock is a private golf course at Nemacolin Resort in Farmington, Pennsylvania. ''Golf Digest'' named it #75 "America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses"; #14 "Public Course in Pennsylvania"; and #22 "American’s Top 50 Courses for Women." '' ...
,
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* South Carolina **
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Hilton Head Island **
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(The Ocean Course) – Kiawah Island ** Heron Point (formerly Sea Marsh) – Hilton Head Island ** The Dye Club at Barefoot Resort –
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** Prestwick Country Club –
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* Texas ** Stonebridge Ranch Country Club (The Dye Course) –
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** AT&T Canyons Course of TPC at San Antonio * Virginia ** Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech – Radford ** River Course at Kingsmill Resort – Williamsburg ** Virginia Beach National –
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** Virginia OaksGainesville * Wisconsin **
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Hayward **
Whistling Straits Whistling Straits is one of two 36-hole links-style golf courses associated with Destination Kohler, a luxury golf resort owned and operated by the Kohler Company in Kohler, Wisconsin. The other course is Blackwolf Run, located in the Village ...
(Irish Course, Straits Course) – Haven **
Blackwolf Run Blackwolf Run is a golf course complex in Kohler, Wisconsin. It is one of two golf destinations associated with The American Club, owned by a subsidiary of the Kohler Company. The other is the Whistling Straits complex in nearby Haven. Opened in ...
(River Course, Meadows Valley Course) –
Kohler Kohler is a surname of German origin. The name was first found in Saxony. It means, "charcoal burner" so the first "Kohlers" were most likely of that occupation. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Kohler, Australian journalist *Anton ...
* Dominican Republic **
Casa de Campo The Casa de Campo (, for Spanish: ''Country House'') is the largest public park in Madrid. It is situated west of central Madrid, Spain. It gets its name 'Country House' because it was once a royal hunting estate, located just west of the Ro ...
(Teeth of the Dog, Dye Fore, The Links) – ** Las Aromas Golf Club - * Guatemala ** Fuego Maya – La Reunion * Israel **
Caesarea Golf & Country Club The Caesarea Golf Club was established in January 1961 by the Rothschild family. Past and present When James Armand de Rothschild visited the Roman ruins in Caesarea, they reminded him of the golf courses back in Scotland, and as a veteran golfe ...
Caesarea


Private

* Arizona ** Ancala Country Club – Scottsdale ** Red Mountain Ranch Country Club (Championship Course) –
Mesa A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a ...
* California ** The Citrus Golf Club -
La Quinta La Quinta (Spanish language, Spanish for "The Fifth") is a desert resort town, resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. Located between Indian Wells, California, Indian Wells and Indio, California, Indio, it is one of the nin ...
** Mission Hills Country Club Pete Dye Course -
Rancho Mirage Rancho Mirage is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 17,218 at the 2010 census, up from 13,249 at the 2000 census, but the seasonal (part-time) population can exceed 20,000. Incorporated in 1973 and locate ...
** The Hideaway Golf Club Pete Dye Course -
La Quinta La Quinta (Spanish language, Spanish for "The Fifth") is a desert resort town, resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. Located between Indian Wells, California, Indian Wells and Indio, California, Indio, it is one of the nin ...
* Colorado ** Glenmoor Country Club –
Cherry Hills Village The City of Cherry Hills Village is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 6,442 at the 2020 United States Census. Cherry Hills Village is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, C ...
* Florida ** Delray Dunes Golf and Country Club- Boynton Beach, Florida ** The Dye Preserve Golf Club -
Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth t ...
** Gulf Stream Golf Club - (Pete and Alice Dye - 2014 Remodel) Gulf Stream ** Talis Park Golf Club (with Greg Norman) –
Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
** Harbour Ridge Yacht & Country Club (River Ridge Course)
Palm City Palm City is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Martin County, Florida, United States. The population was 25,883 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Port St. Lucie Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Palm City is i ...
** North Course - (John's Island Club, Vero Beach, FL) (Pete and Perry Dye)
Vero Beach Vero Beach is a city in and the seat of Indian River County, Florida, United States. Vero Beach is the second most populous city in Indian River County. Abundant in beaches and wildlife, Vero Beach is located on Florida's Treasure Coast. It is thi ...
** South Course - (John's Island Club, Vero Beach, FL) (Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus)
Vero Beach Vero Beach is a city in and the seat of Indian River County, Florida, United States. Vero Beach is the second most populous city in Indian River County. Abundant in beaches and wildlife, Vero Beach is located on Florida's Treasure Coast. It is thi ...
** Southern Hills Plantation Club – Brooksville ** Medalist Golf Club (with Greg Norman) –
Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth t ...
** The Moorings Club of Vero Beach –
Vero Beach Vero Beach is a city in and the seat of Indian River County, Florida, United States. Vero Beach is the second most populous city in Indian River County. Abundant in beaches and wildlife, Vero Beach is located on Florida's Treasure Coast. It is thi ...
** Old Marsh Golf Club –
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Palm Beach Gardens is a city in Palm Beach County in the U.S. state of Florida, 77 miles north of downtown Miami. , the population was 59,182. Palm Beach Gardens is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6 ...
** Pete Dye Course - (PGA Golf Club at the Reserve) –
Port Saint Lucie, Florida Port St. Lucie is a city in St. Lucie County, Florida, United States. It is the most populous municipality in the county with a population of 204,851 at the 2020 census. It is located southeast of Orlando and north of Miami. The Port St. Lu ...
** Harbor Course – ((Grand Harbor, Vero Beach, FL)) ** St. Andrews Club - Delray Beach, FL ** West Bay Club (Estero, FL) (Pete and P.B Dye) * Georgia ** Atlanta National Golf Club –
Alpharetta Alpharetta is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States, and is a part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 US Census, Alpharetta's population was 65,818 The population in 2010 was 57,551. History In the 1830s, the Che ...
**The Ogeechee Golf Club at the , Richmond Hill * Illinois ** Oakwood Country Club – Coal Valley * Indiana ** The Bridgewater Club – Westfield ** The Club at Chatham Hills - Westfield **
Crooked Stick Golf Club Crooked Stick Golf Club is a golf club located in Carmel, Indiana, a suburb north of Indianapolis. The 18-hole Pete and Alice Dye designed golf course was built in 1964. It has been noted as one of the top 100 courses in the United States by ' ...
Carmel Carmel may refer to: * Carmel (biblical settlement), an ancient Israelite town in Judea * Mount Carmel, a coastal mountain range in Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea * Carmelites, a Roman Catholic mendicant religious order Carmel may also ...
**Dye's Walk Country Club (formerly Eldorado Country Club and Royal Oak) – Greenwood ** Harbour Trees Golf Club -
Noblesville Noblesville is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Indiana, United States, a part of the north Indianapolis suburbs along the White River. The population was 51,969 at the 2010 census making it the state's 14th largest city/town ...
** Maple Creek Golf & Country Club – Indianapolis ** Woodland Country Club – Carmel ** The Club at Holliday Farms - Zionsville * Iowa **
Des Moines Golf and Country Club Des Moines Golf and Country Club is a private country club in West Des Moines, Iowa, located few minutes west of Des Moines. Its golf courses have consistently been ranked in the top ten golf courses in the state of Iowa. Established in 1899, ...
West Des Moines West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, Warren, and Madison counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. A majority of the city is located in Polk County, a minority of the city is located in Dallas County, and small portions extend into Warren and Ma ...
* Louisiana ** Belle Terre Country Club – LaPlace * Michigan ** Radrick Farms Golf Course at the
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Ann Arbor ** Wabeek Country Club –
Bloomfield Hills Bloomfield Hills is a small city (5.04 sq. miles) in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a northern suburb of Metro Detroit and is approximately northwest of Downtown Detroit. Except a small southern border with the city of Bir ...
*Missouri **
Boone Valley Golf Club Boone Valley Golf Club is a private golf club in Augusta, Missouri. Details The 18-hole club was founded bRobert Rossand was built by golf course architect, PB Dye, son of celebrated golf course architect Pete Dye. In May, 1991, The Crawford ...
Augusta **Old Hickory Golf Club – St. Peters * Nebraska ** –
Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincol ...
* North Carolina ** Country Club of Landfall – Wilmington * Ohio ** The Golf Club – New Albany ** Little Turtle Golf Club – Westerville * Oklahoma **
Oak Tree National Oak Tree National, formerly called Oak Tree Golf Club, is a golf and country club located in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, Oklahoma. The course was designed by Pete Dye, and it opened in 1976. It plays to a par 71. The course Like other cour ...
Edmond ** Oak Tree Country Club – Edmond * Pennsylvania ** Montour Heights Country Club –
Coraopolis Coraopolis () is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The population was 5,559 at the 2020 census. In 1940, the population peaked at 11,086. Coraopolis is located west of Pittsburgh along the Ohio River and to the east of the Pittsbur ...
* South Carolina ** DeBordieu Club – Georgetown ** Long Cove Club – Hilton Head Island ** Colleton River Plantation Club (Dye Course) – Bluffton ** Hampton Hall Club- Bluffton * Tennessee ** The Honors Golf Club – Ooltewah ** Rarity Mountain Golf Club – Jellico * Texas ** Austin Country ClubAustin ** The Stonebridge Ranch Country Club –
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* Utah ** Promontory
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*West Virginia ** Pete Dye Golf ClubClarksburg * Curacao ** Santa Barbara Beach Resort (Old Quarry Golf Course) – Curacao * China ** Mission Hills Dongguan - Pete Dye Course, Mission Hills China * Dominican Republic ** La Romana Country Club – La Romana * Honduras ** Pristine Bay Resort -
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* Israel **
Caesarea Golf Club The Caesarea Golf Club was established in January 1961 by the Rothschild family. Past and present When James Armand de Rothschild visited the Roman ruins in Caesarea, they reminded him of the golf courses back in Scotland, and as a veteran golfe ...
(2009 course redesign) * Italy ** Franciacorta Golf Club –
Franciacorta The territory of Franciacorta, from Latin "franchae curtes", which means "exempted from paying duties", is a section of the Province of Brescia in the Italian Region of Lombardy. Franciacorta is known for its wine production and includes world-f ...
, Sebino, (Brescia) * Switzerland ** Golf Club du Domaine Impérial - Gland,
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