Alice Dye

Golf Course Architect

1927 –

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Who is Alice Dye?

Alice Dye is an American amateur golfer and golf course designer known as the "First Lady" of golf architecture in the United States.

She was born as Alice Holliday O'Neal in Indianapolis, Indiana and began playing golf at a young age, winning eleven Indianapolis Women's City titles. She graduated from Shortridge High School, and in 1946 won the first of her nine Indiana Women's Golf Association Amateur Championships. 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 1948 with a B.S. degree.

In early 1950, she and Pete Dye were married. Their marriage produced two sons, Perry and P.B., as well as one of the top design teams of American golf courses, famous for their design of the TPC at Sawgrass. 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.

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Born
1927
Indianapolis
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Rollins College
Lived in
  • Indianapolis

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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