Revealing the secrets behind his mischievously challenging courses, a noted golf-course designer describes his efforts to convert dull ground and swamp areas, offers tips on game improvement, and relates humorous anecdotes about famous golfers. 75,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Bury Me in a Pot Bunker: Golf Through the Eyes of the Game's Most Challenging Course Designer

Sports & Outdoors

Dye,Pete

SHAW,Mark

Golf

Addison-Wesley

"While there are critics who believe my courses are too difficult," writes Pete Dye, "the ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. . . . Unless a few golf professionals are bellyaching about my course design, I wonder whether I've done enough to challenge them." To the millions of golfers who have played his world-famous courses, Pete Dye is either a creative genius or a demonic tormentor. To play well on Pete's courses, or on any of those influenced by his ideas, you have to know Pete. Bury Me in a Pot Bunker is his own story of how he revolutionized his favorite game by designing courses that both delight and bedevil golfers. Peter and his talented wife, Alice, convert dull ground and swamps into beautiful by deadly course filled with Scotland-style mounds, deep pot bunkers, railroad ties, and tiny "target-golf" greens. Bury Me in a Pot Bunker tells the intimate story of how Pete Dye designed his celebrated courses and includes entertaining anecdotes about some of the greatest golfers in the world. It also captures Pete's essence as a humble, give-the-credit-to-someone-else gentleman whose sense of humor and optimism are legendary. Some of Pete's famous courses include Harbour Town Golf Links, Crooked Stick, The Stadium Course at TPC, The Ocean Course at Kiawah, Teeth of the Dog, Oak Tree, The Stadium Course at PGA West, and Whistling Straits. What the experts say about Pete Dye: He created some of the world's top courses [and] had a profound impact on late-twentieth-century course architecture." -- Geoffrey S. Cornish and Ronald E. Whitten The Architects of Golf "This is Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vadar." -- Ben Crenshaw on the Stadium Course at TCP Pete Dye is one of the world's leading golf course designers. For over thirty years his courses have challenged ardent amateurs and PGA Tour professionals alike. A long-running American Express campaign dubbed him "The Man Golfers Love to Hate." Pete's wife and partner, Alice, is one of the greatest amateurs in the history of golf. They reside in Delray Beach, Florida.

Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

McGraw=Hill

'THE COURSE', is A Photographic Documentary of a Pete Dye designed course by Photographer Mike Gurnell. It is the first and only book of its' kind. World Golf Hall of Fame Architect, Pete Dye has constructed more than 120 golf courses. In 50 plus years of designing courses, The Pete Dye Course in French Lick, Indiana is the first project to be documented during construction. 'THE COURSE' is a documentary of what Pete Dye considers to be, "arguably the best inland site he has ever worked on." It provides a historical overview on how the project began, and presents a hole by hole illustration of before and after images of the course. The Pete Dye Course has been referred to as the most breathtaking and exciting 18 holes of golf in the country. WebStore: WWW.GURNELLIMAGES.COM Email: Mike@GurnellImages.com Phone: 317-701-1405

"The Course": The Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort

Gurnell, Mike

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Packed with inside information about how World Golf Hall of Famer Pete Dye hoodwinks golfers of all skill levels, Bury Me In A Pot Bunker presents valuable tips to strategically play Dye’s courses and any courses through understanding the architect’s bedeviling mindset. Also included are Pete’s design philosophies as well as humorous “Dye-isms” chronicling Dye’s remarkable career. “Most Pete Dye courses are mental challenges more than physical.” - Rory Mcllroy “The way Pete gets on a property and feels it is pretty impressive. His courses built for tournaments are hard, but there’s a good reason behind everything. We’ve talked for hours. To get his opinion has been invaluable.” - Tiger Woods “No other [golf course] designer continues to re-invent his architecture the way Pete Dye does.” - Ron Whitten -Golf Digest “Pete Dye – the most loved, hated, and imitated golf-course architect of the past fifty years.” - PGA Magazine “[Pete Dye’s] self-effacing, aw-shucks approach to the game belies an artistry that reached into golf’s past and made it relevant for the future. More by accident than design, he proved himself to be a genius.” - Bradley S. Klein - Golfweek “By acclamation, the master of psychological course design among modern golf course architects.” - Tom Doak, Renowned Golf Course Architect

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Bury Me in a Pot Bunker: Golf Through the Eyes of the Game's Most Challenging Course Designer

Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

"The Course": The Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort

Bury Me In A Pot Bunker (New Special Edition): Design Philosophies, Creative Insights and Playing Tips to Improve Your Score from the World's Most Challenging Golf Course Architect