By Design - Spring 2020

13 else drove—you’re not allowed to do that today! “Driving around in trucks with him was always a lot of fun. Neither my dad nor I have worked a day in our lives because we have had too much fun. We have gotten really dirty and really muddy, but it’s never been work to us.” Tim Liddy, ASGCA, who worked very closely with Pete until the last years of his life, describes what a workday with Pete was like: “It was always fun but with much work involved. Meeting with a client on site, walking the site, looking at drainage and always editing the visual aspects of the golf hole. They were normally long, dirty days and always his dog ‘60’ accompanied us. One time, traveling out to the site from the airport at Kohler to Whistling Straits, the small front cab of the pickup truck allowed room only for the driver, him and 60. I gladly rode in the open bed of the truck in 10-degree weather knowing I was working with a Hall of Fame architect.” ASGCA Past President Lee Schmidt says: “Upon graduating from Purdue University in 1970, I contacted Pete for an interview and was fortunately hired to work on a golf project near Pete was always ahead of his time. How many golf designers could that be said about?