Pete Dye Turns 90!

Golf architect Pete Dye turns 90 (December 29) and isn't slowing down, renovating some of his designs and also creating new ones.

Bradley Klein files a short update on Dye and notes that it may have taken a little bit of urging to get the legend to relent to calls for repairing TPC Sawgrass' 12th into a drivable short par-4.

Previously, Dye has looked askance at such holes, deriding efforts at other championship courses as a way of cheapening the shot value of par 4s. “They have a name for drivable par 4s,” he has said. “Par 3s.”

Garry Smits reported last week on planned changes after the 2016 Players.