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    Crooked Stick Golf Club

    Crooked Stick Golf Club

    1964 Burning Tree Ln

    Carmel, IN 46032-7907

    United States

    Overview

    Crooked Stick is the course where Pete Dye became Pete Dye. Conceived following an extended tour of British courses, Pete founded Crooked Stick, located the land, raised the funds and designed the course, rejecting conventional golf holes in favor of radical ones, using bulkheads of vertical telephone poles to create abrupt change and long expanses of sand to emulate dunes. What’s more, he built it himself, pressing even his wife, Alice, and young sons, Perry and P.B., into construction work. They opened the back nine first, in 1965, with MacKenzie-style boomerang greens; the front nine came two years later, with lines and angles appropriated from Donald Ross. Crooked Stick was the first Dye course to host a major championship, the 1991 PGA Championship, just a month before the Ryder Cup visited his brand-new Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. Tom Doak finished renovation work in late 2024, but the goal was to enhance and sharpen the Dye features rather than change them, so the changes may not be noticeable.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7516
    Slope 146
    Facility Type Private
    Year Opened 1967
    Designer Pete Dye, ASGCA

    Awards

    100 Greatest
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    100 Greatest: Ranked from 1971-2006, 2009-'20 and 2025-'26.
    Highest ranking: 54th, 2003-'04.
    Previous ranking: 101st.
    2025-'26 ranking: 99th.

    Second 100 Greatest: Ranked from 2021-'24.

    Best in State: Ranked first, 1985-'89, 1995-'97. Ranked second 2013-'26. Ranked fourth, 2011-'12. Ranked inside the top 5 since 1977.
    2025-'26 ranking (and previous): 2nd.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.4

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.5869
    Character
    7.6487
    Challenge
    7.6708
    Layout Variety
    7.5659
    Fun
    7.4603
    Aesthetics
    7.3426
    Conditioning
    7.727

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