Pete Dye
| Pete Dye | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 29, 1925 Urbana, Ohio |
| Residence | Carmel, Indiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Rollins College |
| Occupation | Golf course designer |
| Spouse(s) | Alice Dye |
| Children | Perry & P.B. (Paul Burke) |
| Parent(s) | Elizabeth and Paul "Pink" Dye |
| Awards |
World Golf Hall of Fame PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award Old Tom Morris Award Doctor of Landscape Architecture ASGCA Donald Ross Award |
Paul B. "Pete" Dye (born December 29, 1925) is a golf course designer and a member of a family of course designers. He is married to fellow designer and former amateur champion Alice Dye.
Dye was born in Urbana, Ohio. A few years before Pete's birth, his father, Paul F. Dye also known as "Pink", got hooked on golf and built a nine-hole course on family land in Champaign County called the Urbana Country Club. Pete worked and played that course while growing up. He won the Ohio State High School Golf Championship and medaled in the Ohio State Amateur Golf Championship before he went into the Army in 1944. He attended Asheville School, a boarding school in Asheville, NC, with his brother, Andy, before he entered the Army in 1944. He entered the United States Army Airborne School at Fort Benning in Georgia to be a paratrooper, but World War II ended before he was sent overseas. He was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina where he served the rest of his hitch as greenskeeper on the base golf course. Pete 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 JC Penney, and they all knew him."
After his discharge, he became a student at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida where he met his wife, the former Alice Holliday O'Neal. They were married in early 1950, and their marriage produced two sons, Perry and P.B. (Paul Burke). They moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, Alice's hometown, and Pete began selling insurance. Within a few years, he distinguished himself as a million dollar salesman. At the same time, he was a successful amateur golfer. Dye won the Indiana State Amateur Championship in 1958; he also finished as runner-up in 1954 and 1955 to U.S. Open, he finished ahead of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.
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