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- Address1964 Burning Tree Ln, Carmel, IN 46032, USA
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Crooked Stick is situated in Carmel, twenty miles north of Indianapolis. Constructed in 1964 by Pete Dye, it is home to a private members club. The club almost became known as “The Golf Club of Indianapolis” but according to folklore, Pete Dye was walking over the unfinished homeward nine and picked up a knobbly stick and proceeded to swing the stick at some loose stones, “Crooked Stick Golf Club” was the outcome.
There have been several major championships held here over the years: the 1982 US Junior Amateur, the 1984 US Senior amateur, the 73rd USPGA in 1991 (won by John Daly), the 1993 Ladies Open and the Solheim Cup in 2006. The Stick also hosted the Women’s Amateur Championship in 2007 and the U.S. Senior Open Championship in 2009.
Crooked Stick was one of Pete Dye’s first golf course commissions and it was constructed the year after he had spent some time in Scotland playing many of the traditional links with Cruden Bay, in particular, making a lasting impression on him. Consequently, pot bunkers, wooden sleepers, small greens, blind shots and undulating fairways were concepts that were transported across the Atlantic to this, and many of Dye’s other American designs.
Dye lives a wedge shot from the 18th hole at Crooked Stick and in speaking about the acclaimed par three 13th hole, he says that it “is a nice, fairly simple, straightforward hole. But I left a mound in the fairway… so when you’re standing on the tee, you can only see part of the green… and I’ve heard more people complain about that blind hole. But… it sticks in their minds.”
Pete Dye and his wife Alice, when not on golfing business elsewhere, still play seven holes on Crooked Stick together every day – have you ever read a golf course review where someone writes “if there was only one course that I could play for the rest of my life” – maybe Pete Dye has done just that.
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Pete Dye captained the college team in his youth before going on to qualify for the US Open in 1957. He won the Indiana State Amateur, took part in The Amateur in 1963 and played in five US Amateurs.
