Is it possible for a golf course to personify its creator?
Unique.
Unyielding.
At times irascible and contradictory.
Always challenging.
And yet, stunningly beautiful.
If the Straits course is a physical manifestation of Pete Dye then it is the perfect reflection of his iconic and fierce individualism.
For all we think we know about Dye, he possesses a certain mystical Hoganesque quality, a sense that despite the 89 years he’s walked this earth, the origins of his becoming arguably the most influential golf course architect of the last 50 years is lost among the sands of time.