Pete Dye Golf Club

The Pete Dye Golf Club occupies roughly 500 acres of a reclaimed former coal mine in the hills of Harrison County, just outside Bridgeport, West Virginia. Conceived by local businessman Jim LaRosa and originally imagined under the name Coal Ridge, the course took Pete Dye more than a decade to build, and it opened in 1995. Its long gestation is visible in the design itself: earlier holes carry the railroad-tie motif of Dye's Oak Tree era, while later holes show the rugged, echo-chamber bunkering he developed toward Whistling Straits. The site's mining heritage is woven throughout, from a strip-mine highwall framing the par-5 eighth and black cinder bunkers to an abandoned coal train curling around the tenth and a mine shaft leading to the seventh tee. Consistently ranked among the top courses in West Virginia, it stands as one of Dye's most personal and unusual creations.