On December 29th, 1925, Pete Dye was born in Urbana, Ohio. As captain of the golf team at college, he met and married Alice O'Neal who became his partner in a highly successful golf design business. In 1963, Dye made what proved to be a seminal visit to St Andrews to compete in the British Amateur Championship. On returning to the US, he completed the design of Crooked Stick, where John Daly had a spectacular triumph in the 1991 USPGA Championship. Often thought of as the enfant terrible of design, because of his extensive use of water, small greens and railway sleepers, Dye was firmly established among the elite of golf-course architects when his Stadium Course at Sawgrass was unveiled in 1984.
TEASER: In strokeplay, a competitor's ball in a hazard moves due to his removal of a loose impediment in the hazard. What is the ruling?
ANSWER: The competitor incurs a penalty of three strokes - two for moving a loose impediment in a hazard (Rule 13-4c) and one because the ball moved (Rule 18-2a). The ball must be replaced (Rule 18-2a).
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