When you build a golf course, I always use the example of Pebble Beach. If you took the ocean away from the 18th hole, it's a good golf hole. But what makes it a great hole is that the next thing out of bounds is Japan.
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I don't think any of us really thought of the 17th hole. It just kind of arrived. We just kept digging. Actually, I think my wife, Alice, came out one day, looked at the area and said let's just make it an island green.Pete Dye
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Originally, the water was just supposed to come into play on the right side. But we just kept digging. And then one day Alice came out and said, 'Why don't you just go ahead and make it an island' So we did.
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