Bury Me in a Pot Bunker (New Special Edition): Design Philosophies, Creative Insights and Playing Tips to Improve Your Score from the World's Most Cha

Jacket Description/Back: To the millions of golfers who have played his world-famous courses, Pete Dye is either a creative genius or a demonic tormentor. To play well on Pete's courses, or on any of those influenced by his ideas, you have to know Pete. Bury Me in a Pot Bunker is his own story of how he revolutionized his favorite game by designing courses that both delight and bedevil golfers. Publisher Marketing: Packed with inside information about how World Golf Hall of Famer Pete Dye hoodwinks golfers of all skill levels, Bury Me In A Pot Bunker presents valuable tips to strategically play Dye's courses and any courses through understanding the architect's bedeviling mindset. Also included are Pete's design philosophies as well as humorous "Dye-isms" chronicling Dye's remarkable career. "Most Pete Dye courses are mental challenges more than physical." - Rory Mcllroy "The way Pete gets on a property and feels it is pretty impressive. His courses built for tournaments are hard, but there's a good reason behind everything. We've talked for hours. To get his opinion has been invaluable." - Tiger Woods "No other [golf course] designer continues to re-invent his architecture the way Pete Dye does." - Ron Whitten -Golf Digest "Pete Dye - the most loved, hated, and imitated golf-course architect of the past fifty years." - PGA Magazine "[Pete Dye's] self-effacing, aw-shucks approach to the game belies an artistry that reached into golf's past and made it relevant for the future. More by accident than design, he proved himself to be a genius." - Bradley S. Klein - Golfweek "By acclamation, the master of psychological course design among modern golf course architects." - Tom Doak, Renowned Golf Course Architect Review Citations:

Library Journal 10/15/1994 pg. 64 (EAN 9780201407693, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 10/03/1994 pg. 58 (EAN 9780201407693, Hardcover)

Library Journal 11/15/1994 (EAN 9780201407693, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Shaw, Mark Mark Shaw author of twenty-plus books, is a former criminal defense attorney who has served as a legal analyst for ABC, ESPN, and USA Today. He is a member of the Assassination Archives and Research Center in Washington, DC, and the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering critical thinking on a range of historical topics, including the assassinations of the 1960s. He lives in Superior, Colorado.