Pete Dye’s Final Chapter

“Please don't end your story on a sad note," Alice Dye says to me as I close my notebook and reach over to shut off my voice recorder. Iconic golf-course designer Pete Dye, author of TPC Sawgrass, Crooked Stick, the Ocean Course at Kiawah, Whistling Straits and many others, a genuine genius at his craft, member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, Alice's husband of 68 years, the love of her life, sits in a rocker some 10 feet from us, seemingly oblivious to our presence. In the good old days, 30 years ago or three, I couldn't have had a conversation with Alice without Pete jumping in.