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The Secrets of Kiva Dunes

By derek_duncan | September 13, 2018

I’d like to ask Jerry Pate someday why he routed Kiva Dunes the way it is. I’m sure there’s a good reason all the holes run east-west, I’d just like to know what it is. Lack of acreage could have something to do with it. The site is on a narrow isthmus on the coastal edge of Alabama between Bon…

Pinehurst No. 2 — Dawn of an Old Era

By derek_duncan | February 5, 2017

It’s impossible to talk about Pinehurst No. 2 without talking about the big convex greens. And it’s hard to talk about the greens without recalling Pete Dye’s old yarn about how they got the way they are. Dye played the No. 2 course weekly while stationed at Fort Bragg in the 1940’s. The greens then were not particularly crowned…