Kiawah Preview: Shaped By Dye And Hugo
/Bill Pennington looks at Kiawah's Ocean Course and focuses on how Pete Dye was able to make the design better thanks to hurricane Hugo moving things around and freeing him from environmental rules.
From the New York Times story:
When the hurricane hit, several people in the Ocean Course work crew were stranded on the island and remained there until access roads were cleared. The day after Hugo headed inland, Dye rented a barge in a nearby town to take him to Kiawah.
He started up the bulldozers.
“Hugo had obliterated the work we had already done on some holes, but it had also knocked down trees and moved around a lot of things that we wouldn’t have been able to move or be allowed to move,” Dye said.
Also, Bradley Klein offers a hole-by-hole look at the course.
Other than pesky ads before each video, Frank Nobilo's video look at key holes (with aerial footage) can be accessed on this page.
Two of particular note, include the par-3 14th (I forgot how severe it is!) and Nobilo's look at the paspalum at Kiawah.
The 14th:
Paspalum:
