Tag: golf club
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How Pete Dye built one of the toughest par 3s in the world
Pete Dye didn’t invent the terrifying par-3 hole, but he revolutionized it. Architects from the beginning have positioned greens in precarious places that require extreme tee-shot precision—across lakes and rivers, on benches above deep bunkers and ravines, in dunes surrounded by sand and gorse—but Dye took it to another level. His all-carry par 3s played…
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What Golfers Expect From a Modern Day Golf Club
Right or wrong, golf is a sport that has a reputation for being a sport that tends to get stuck in its ways. Most club golfers do not like change – witness the way that the WHS has generally been received. At my club I still hear more complaints about handicaps than almost every other…