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Casa de Campo’s famous Pete Dye designed golf course was recently ranked as the Caribbean’s #1 golf course!
Not only in the Teeth of the Dog Golf course this year celebrating it’s 40th birthday but now thanks to the latest ranking released by Golf Magazine on its Top 100 Courses in the World roster – (Sept. 2011 issue), it is also celebrating being the BEST golf course in the Caribbean, not to mention the 47th best golf course in the whole world!
The Teeth of the Dog golf course is the ONLY golf course in the whole world to boast 7 holes which skirt the Caribbean sea – an aspect which makes this golf course unrivaled on beauty as well as challenge! Over the last 40 years, since it was first opened in 1971, thousands of avid golfers from around the world have been captivated by the Teeth of the Dog’s devilish design and signature Pete Dye challenge.
Built entirely by hand, the Teeth of the Dog opened in 1971 with 6,888 yards and a par 72-layout. Pete Dye credits its creation to divine intervention, ¨I built eleven holes and God built seven,” says Dye, referring to the seven captivating sea-side holes.
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Pete Dye – the golf architect behind Casa de Campo’s Golf Legacy
Considered by many to be the world’s most renowned golf course architect, Pete Dye – hand-in-hand with wife Alice Dye, an American golf champion and course designer known as the “First Lady” of golf architecture in the US — have now created 63 holes for resort guests at Casa de Campo on three of the most challenging courses in the game: Teeth of the Dog (18 holes), The Links (18 holes), and Dye Fore (27 holes) including the new nine, Dye Fore Lakes, that opened Sept. 2011 with the 30th anniversary of the Casa de Campo Open. The inland Links golf course at Casa de Campo, opened in 1976 and is presently undergoing a total Pete Dye transformation and will reopen in February 2012. Pete Dye comes by his genius for golf course design naturally. An established champion golfer in his own right, his love for golf was surpassed only by his passion for design. In the 1950s, Pete Dye travelled the world and found inspiration in the world’s best courses. His role as a golf course designer and architect has changed the game for golfers everywhere and continually raised the bar for style, functionality and beauty in course construction. Pete Dye still cites Casa de Campo’s Teeth of the Dog golf course as one of the best accomplishments in his 50-year career.
