Michigan Golf Journal February 2020

5 February 2020 www.michigangolfjournal.com Maximize Your Play Time The best golf destinations cover a lot of ground beyond the 18th green. French Lick Resort is the golf getaway with more to love. We have 45 holes of golf, including championship courses by legendary designers Pete Dye and Donald Ross. Add in hundreds of ways to win at the casino, casual and fine dining plus other amenities, and the numbers are on your side for an epic golf trip. French Lick Resort brings it all together with golf, food, fun and gaming at one unforgettable destination. For groups of 8 or more, give our golf group sales manager Alex Whiteman a call at 812-936-9300 (ext. 7227) to get the ball rolling. Must be 21 years or older to enter the casino. Gambling Problem? Call 1.800.9.WITH.IT! make the 30-mile trip to Pinehurst and came to know Donald Ross. In fact, Chris Lutzke, who designed Eagle Eye in Lansing with Dye-like vision and who worked for Dye for over 30 years said: “Pete’s relationship with Mr. Ross was one of the things of which, he was most proud.” The Director of Golf at French Lick, Dave Harner, was privileged to know both Pete and Alice Dye well. The resort holds the Alice Dye Invitational annually. “The most amazing thing was how Pete lived his life,” Harner said. “Alongside his bride, Alice, they changed the face of golf course architecture, and never really set out to. Even though they were two of golf’s rock stars, they remained humble, lived a simple life, and gave back so much to so many.” Even Jack Nicklaus learned much from Dye, when the Golden Bear first teamed up with Dye to build Harbour Town Links — then later to design Wabeek Country Club in Bloomfield Hills. “It was Pete who inspired me to start designing courses more than 50 years ago, and so in many ways I owe my second career to him,” Nicklaus said. “I think Pete Dye was the most creative, imaginative and unconventional golf course designer I have ever been around.” Pete Dye will be remembered as one of the most innovative golf course designers of his time. He will be missed, but his legacy will live on forever in the world of golf. MGJ