"Paul B. "Pete" Dye" is a golf course designer and a member of a family of course designers. He is married to fellow designer and former amateur champion Alice Dye.

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It was really low budget.

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.

It's always fun to have a professional tournament come to your golf course.

It's a different world when you are out on the courses. A different world altogether.

I don't think any of us really thought of the 17th hole. It just kind of arrived. We just kept digging. Actually, I think my wife, Alice, came out one day, looked at the area and said let's just make it an island green.

Here you don't have to create anything, ... because it's already here.

Originally, the water was just supposed to come into play on the right side. But we just kept digging. And then one day Alice came out and said, 'Why don't you just go ahead and make it an island?' So we did.

When you build a golf course, I always use the example of Pebble Beach. If you took the ocean away from the 18th hole, it's a good golf hole. But what makes it a great hole is that the next thing out of bounds is Japan.