The couple, both of whom passed away in recent years, did a brilliant job on Whistling Straits and more than a hundred other courses during a storied six-decade career
When the dust settles following the 43rd staging of the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits’ Straits Course on Sunday evening, there’s a reasonable chance the star of the week could be the beloved course architect Pete Dye. For the simple reason that whenever something major is played on a Dye course, the course always finds a way to stand out.
Dye, who died last year aged 92, was a titanic figure in the realm of golf architecture – one of only four course architects to be enshrined in the World Golf Hall of Fame – having designed more than a hundred courses around the world across a panoramic six-decade career. His tracks have held six major championships, most recently at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island earlier this year.
