USGA Partners With Crooked Stick Golf Club To Preserve Dye Legacy

Danny Vohden explains the partnership between Crooked Stick and the USGA to preserve various artifacts and ephemera from the life and times of Pete and Alice Dye. The items will be housed at the USGA Golf Museum and Library.

The United States Golf Association (USGA), at the invitation of Crooked Stick Golf Club members Joe and Marcia Luigs, along with Tony Pancake, the club’s director of golf, has acquired a selection of artifacts and ephemera from the estate of Pete and Alice Dye.

The collection, which is to be preserved at the USGA Golf Museum and Library, includes more than 50 items from the Dyes’ life and career together and was obtained from their home on the grounds of Crooked Stick in Carmel, Ind., which served as their summer residence for many years. Pete and Alice Dye designed Crooked Stick, which was founded in 1964 and has gone on to host six USGA championships, most recently the 2009 U.S. Senior Open.

Highlights of the collection include:

• Trophies from Alice’s illustrious amateur golf career

• Accolades and awards related to Alice’s career and service to the game

• Alice’s gavel from the American Society of Golf Course Architects, of which she was the first female president

• Alice’s blazers from the USGA Women’s Committee, the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship, and the Women’s Western Golf Association

• A selection of Pete’s architectural plans and course drawings

• Personal photographs, correspondence and documents

You can see some of the collection in a slideshow accompanying the story.