Dye was all about “angles, angles, angles,” he continues. “You’d have one angle off the tee and probably a different angle into the green,” he says. “There’d be some blindness in an approach or two. I put back some blindness in the bailout area on the par-3 12th by placing a high bunker that blocks the view to the right side of the green. I also put back in flat sand bunkers with steep grass faces.”

“It’s night and day from what was there previously,” says Gerad Nelson, director of agronomy at The Hideaway. “Tim really introduced some unique bunker styles. Plus, the green contouring was a big part of the design that had not been there. We also gained some hole locations after the greens were brought back to their previous sizes.”

Reintroducing design elements that had faded away over the years was also the goal at PGA WEST’s Stadium Course, famously one of Dye’s most difficult layouts. Opened in 1986, it will serve as the host venue for the PGA Tour’s The American Express tournament  Jan. 16–19.

“We had the opportunity to take it back to the way it originally was,” says Ben Dobbs, executive director of PGA WEST. “That’s why it was important for us to call this a ‘restoration’ and not a ‘renovation,’ because we just focused on putting the golf course back exactly the way Pete designed it, with sharp edges, lots of contrasts, and difficult bunkers with the grass faces. I will tell you that the reaction from members and guests, and from the PGA Tour, has been fantastic. Everybody has loved the changes.”

Dobbs points to the bunkering (where Dye’s greenside efforts are often lined by infamous railroad ties) as the legend’s most recognizable imprint on the Stadium Course. “Pete spent a lot of time thinking about visually intimidating the golfers,” he says. “I think the bunkering, with the grass faces and the raised top edges, really become visually intimidating again. I know that’s what Pete was trying to do, and we brought that element back.”