Casa de Campo: Dye Fore

The Teeth of the Dog course at Casa de Campo wows players with seven holes strung over the beaches of the Caribbean. Dye Fore makes a similar impression stringing holes on forested bluffs high above the Chavon River. The original 18 holes, opened in 2003, came at the end of Pete Dye’s middle period when he was still building large format waste bunkers and greens with more pronounced movements (a third nine here, added in 2011, represents late Dye with smaller, more geometric bunkers recalling Seth Raynor, whose courses he observed playing throughout the Midwest in the 1950s and ‘60s, and putting contours with more micro-movements). The biggest moments come on the second nine of the original layout as holes 10, 11 and 14 cling to the edge of the gorge, setting up two of the country’s most exciting par 3s, 12 and 15, which hop over deep ravines toward greens cut precariously on the edge.