INDIANAPOLIS – A beloved Hoosier and world-renowned golf architect Pete Dye has died at 94.
Dye designed more than 130 golf courses around the world. His wife Alice, who passed away last year, would help him create some of the most famous golf courses around the globe.
They were best known for designing the “island green,” the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Flordia, probably the most photographed hole in golf history, says The New York Times.
Their last masterpiece together was created right here in Indianapolis. The Pete and Alice Dye Golf Experience is a mini-golf course that replicates some of their most well-known designs. You can find the course at the Riley Children’s Health Sports Legends Experience at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.
There are 15 courses total around the state that Dye has created including The Fort at Benjamin Harrison and the Eagle Creek Golf Course.
Not only did they create beautiful courses for the everyday golfer, but also for the pros.
Tiger Woods told Golf Digest in 2008, “the way Pete gets on a property and feels it is pretty impressive. His courses built for tournaments are hard, but there’s a good reason for everything.”
Dye was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2008.
Pete and Alice lived in Carmel together. Dye passed surrounded by family in Gulf Stream, Florida. He had been treated for dementia.
(Photo: Getty Images. Caryn Levy.)
