Video: Best Developments In Modern Golf, Pete Dye Edition
/Brandel Chamblee has bookended his column on the worst developments of the past 50 or so years with the best such happenings and without knowing his list, unintentionally expanded on his fourth selection today on Morning Drive.
Chamblee cited the "Golden Age revival of golf course architecture over the past 20 years." And while I agree it's been a good start on getting golf back to what attracted people to this madness in the first place, we have to recognize the man that broke the Trent Jones stranglehold on fun, paving the way for today's renaissance: Pete Dye.
While I was not as eloquent or clear-eyed as I'd like to be (5:20 PT), the clip hopefully gets the point across that Dye was the man who had the greatest impact: