Perhaps wanting to avert the mass gagging that commenced the last time he built a PGA TOUR TPC course in a Southern swamp, Pete Dye kept the spice in this particular gumbo relatively mild. Or perhaps it just seems that way since the pros — and all of us too — are much more acclimated to Dye’s cooking…
Architect Bobby Weed and I were scheduled to talk last week for an upcoming episode of Feed the Ball, until Hurricane Irma blew chaos into both our lives. He’s now traveling and repairing damage to his property near Ponte Vedra, but I’ll be catching up with him soon. Be on the lookout for the latest podcast…
You might think that the Tournament Players Club Sawgrass’s Dye’s Valley Course would be pretty comparable to the adjacent Stadium Course . They were built six years apart and share, roughly, the same property, the same architects, the same ownership and operators, the same evidence of enormous earth-moving and a majority of the same design features. There sure…