Paul Burke "P. B." Dye

A free spirit who does not wear wristwatches or look at calendars, P.B. (Paul Burke) Dye is the youngest son of famed golf course architects Pete and Alice Dye.

Following his family's example, P.B. has been "moving dirt" for as long as he can remember. He was atop a bulldozer at age 9 learning the art of shaping golf courses at Crooked Stick in Carmel, Indiana, and at age 16, P.B. helped his dad at Teeth of the Dog in the Dominican Republic.

P.B. became an accomplished golfer, once qualifying for the U.S. Amateur.

P.B. graduated from the University of Tampa in 1980 where he studied Spanish, a discipline useful to him when in the Dominican Republic. After graduation from the University of Tampa (Fla.) in 1980, he joined his dad's firm.

P.B. embraces "The Dye Way"—a personal commitment to "roll up your sleeves" hard work and quality.

He has no office, staff, or overhead, and he often lives on job sites, designing and building courses himself. P.B. has been called a natural–born wizard on a tractor, and he has been known to have aimed a bulldozer into the woods to begin his courses.

A non–stop storyteller and talker, P.B. has constructed more than 30 courses, which are mostly located in the eastern United States.

He maintains two residences, following the golf season: he lives in Ohio in the summer and Florida in the winter, with frequent visits to the family compound in the Dominican Republic.

A survivor of both colon and rectal cancer.

P.B.'s acclaimed designs include

The Honors Course in Tennessee; Cobblestone Park in South Carolina;

the original course at Punta Cana, often called the best course in the Dominican Republic; and

Fisher Island in the heart of Miami, which Golf Digest ranked as one of the top 10 nine-hole courses in the nation.

So when he achieved enough status in the profession to create his own signature course, he didn't leave anything in the bag. At P.B. Dye Golf Club, in a spectacular Piedmont setting northwest of Washington, D.C., he included not only an abundance of the family's signature bells and whistles -- railroad ties, multi-tiered greens and pot bunkers -- but also 11 blind or partially blind shots, three blind ponds, two clearing bells, three posted signs with blind layup-to-hazzard distances, a peninsula-green par 3, and closing holes that play to greens guarded by ponds.

When Golf Digest came out with a list of the 50 most difficult courses in America in 2007, P.B. Dye Golf Club was no. 26 and another of his creations, the Moorland Course at Legends in Myrtle Beach, S.C. was ranked no. 37. (Father Pete, of course, had three of the top-10 courses.)

Of the approximately 100 golf courses on P.B. Dye's resume, many are at resort spots on the east coast or in the Caribbean. He also has collaborated with his dad on several stellar designs.

Some of P.B.'s success is owed to his willingness to shape his own courses with a bulldozer, a lesson he passed on to one of the world's great designers, Dye-disciple Tom Doak, who often credits P.B. for his own success.

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