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New coffee table book showcases the genius of Pete Dye.
Suffice it to say that Pete Dye has left his mark on the landscape. Vagabond golfer Joel Zuckerman traces his path in the new book, “Pete Dye Golf Courses: Fifty Years of Visionary Design.”
Dye, who will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Nov. 10 in St. Augustine, is known for his fiendishly difficult and spectacularly beautiful golf courses.
Pete Dye’s dad built the Urbana Country Club course as a labor of love in 1922, three years before Pete was born.
When his dad went to World War II, the 15-year-old Dye took over maintenance of the course.
It wasn’t until he was in his 30s, after stints in the military and a successful career in insurance, that he got into golf course design in Indianapolis.
“His modus operandi is to walk and walk the land, then walk some more, until a vision of a golf course, a routing plan, forms in his incredibly fertile imagination,” Zuckerman writes.
The book’s photography by Ken E. May is stunning. Golf greats Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer have offered tributes to Dye in the book as well. Lowcountry courses profiled include Harbour Town Golf Links, Colleton River Plantation Club: The Pete Dye Course and Hampton Hall.
The compendium includes a survey of Dye’s championship venues, a comprehensive list of Dye courses worldwide and visits to courses created by the next generation of Dye architects.
Zuckerman will sign copies of the book from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 W. York St. in Savannah, and at Barnes & Noble in Savannah from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 16.
For more information visit vagabondgolfer.com.
