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At 82, Dye receives recognition for his designing touch
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By George J. Tanber
Special to ESPN.com Thursday, November 6, 2008 Ask the greatest living golf-course architect what he does for a living and he'll tell you in all seriousness that he doesn't draw, he just digs holes. That's what Pete Dye told PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem in May, when Finchem called Dye's Delray Beach, Fla. home to tell him he had been named to the World Golf Hall of Fame. Dye, a modest man, said to Finchem: "My Lord, you dipped to the bottom of the barrel and there I was. You pulled out a dirt digger." Three years earlier, in a ph ... Activate your ESPN Profile!
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