'The Dye' National Junior Invitational Tournament to Honor Legacy of Pete and Alice Dye

Crooked Stick Golf Club – home to the Dyes and their “firstborn” championship course – to stage inaugural event May 25-27, 2020

(CARMEL, IND.) – Members of Crooked Stick Golf Club today announced they will stage a boys and girls tournament to honor the lives and legacies of its founders, champion golfers and world-renowned course designers Pete and Alice Dye. The unveiling of the event – a year in the planning – comes just weeks after the January 9th passing of Pete Dye at the age of 94.

The inaugural Pete and Alice Dye Junior Invitational – “The Dye” – will be contested May 25-27 at the famed Dye-created and designed Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Ind., an Indianapolis suburb. Top-ranked junior amateurs – a field of 33 boy and 33 girl junior players from across the U.S. – will compete for the championship in 54 holes of medal play and for points from World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR), National Junior Golf Scoreboard (NJGS) and Golfweek Sagarin Junior Rankings.

The field of 33 boys and girls is a nod to the number of cars in the Indianapolis 500, which is being staged a day ahead of The Dye and just a few miles south of Crooked Stick. Top juniors (aged 18 and younger in 2020) from 15 states have accepted invitations and are scheduled to compete. Players include Michael Brennan, John Daly, Jr. (son of ’91 Crooked Stick PGA champ John Daly), Alexa Pano, Katherine Schuster and dozens of other top junior players.

“Pete and Alice Dye were both elite level amateur players and began winning tournaments as juniors,” said Wayne Timberman, tournament chairman. “The Dye is the only national invitational where elite boy and girl golfers play for a major title on the same Top 100 course at the same time,” he said. “Crooked Stick members are thrilled to honor the Dyes with a world class tournament in a unique format. ‘The Dye’ is truly one-of-a-kind, just like Pete and Alice!”

Details about the inaugural Pete and Alice Dye Junior Invitational at Crooked Stick can be found at the championship website: www.dyejuniorinvitational.com and on the event’s social media channels: @TheDyeJunior (Twitter), thedyejuniorinvitational (Instagram) and @TheDyeJuniorInvitational (Facebook).