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Alice Dye
American golfer and golf course designer (–)
Alice Dye (February 19, – February 1, )[1] was an American amateur golfer and golf course designer known as the "First Lady" of golf architecture in the United States.
Biography
Born Alice Holliday O'Neal in Indianapolis, Indiana, she began playing golf at a young age as a result of her father's influence,[2] winning eleven Indianapolis Women's City titles.
She graduated from Shortridge High School,[3] and in won the first of her nine Indiana Women's Golf Association Amateur Championships.
Bradley S. In , the property was purchased by Richard D. Read Change Change source View history. A native of Urbana, Ohio, he was an avid golfer who left behind a successful career as an insurance salesman in the Indianapolis area to start a second career as a golf course designer.While a student at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, she was captain of the golf team. At college she met Paul "Pete" Dye, Jr. following his discharge from World War II military service. She graduated in with a B.S. degree.
In early after Alice's graduation, she and Pete Dye were married.
Pete dye biography golf Paul Burke. Tools Tools. Pete Dye will be missed. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.The couple partnered to form Dye Designs, a firm specializing in golf-course designs. The firm became so successful in creating over golf courses over the world.[2] Their marriage produced two sons, Perry and P.B. (Paul Burke), as well as one of the top design teams of American golf courses, famous for their design of the TPC at Sawgrass (it was Alice who came up with the idea of the Island Green, the signature 17th hole at Sawgrass' Stadium Course) and for being the first firm in America to introduce design elements for golf courses used in Scotland.[2] She became the first woman president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, and the first to serve as an independent director of Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA).
Another of Alice's significant contributions was shortening the yardage for women in the golf designs, making them more accessible to the players.[2]
She won the North and South Women's Amateur and was a member of the United States Curtis Cup team. Dye won the and U.S. Senior Women's Amateur as well as two Canadian Women's Senior Championships.
She was a member of the USGA Women's Committee, the LPGA Advisory Council and a member of the Board of Directors of the Women's Western Amateur who honored her with their Woman of Distinction Award.
Pete dye biography Alice supported his career change and became partner in the new venture. Dye designed the Radrick Farms Golf Course for the University of Michigan in , but the course did not open until Page Talk. Download as PDF Printable version.She and her husband established a golf training program at Purdue University.
Alice Dye was inducted into the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame in and in was voted the PGA's First Lady of Golf Award. She collaborated on the book "From Birdies to Bunkers: Discover How Golf Can Bring Love, Humor and Success into Your Life" with Mark Shaw that was published in with a foreword by Nancy Lopez.
Alice Dye died at the age of 91 years old in Gulf Stream, Florida.[2]
Some of the golf courses designed by Alice Dye:
Tournament wins
Team appearances
Amateur
- Curtis Cup (representing the United States): (winners)