Pete Dye

But he was just, that's just how eccentric he was.

You know, he was just, he was very practical.

But at the same time, he was just incredibly eccentric.

And the guys would be going around spraying the golf course.

She'd whistle for him to come over, and the guy on the sprayer would come over, and he'd get the hand boom, and he'd take the hand boom.

You know, they were spraying for bugs or something for insecticide.

It was insecticide.

And he would get the handgun off the spray tank and go spray the thatch roof and everything for bugs and everything in the house.

He'd just go spray his thing all over the house.

I mean, it was crazy.

I hired Tom Doak.

Pete said, hire this kid.

And I interviewed him, and I called Pete.

I said, Pete, I'm not hiring him.

I said, he's skinnier than I am.

And I said, the no-see-ums and the bugs will just devour him.

He said, you hire that little son of a bitch.

I'm tired of him writing me letters.

He said, put him out there and tell him to pick up sticks all summer.

And that's exactly what he did.