Pete Dye

Paul B. "Pete" Dye (born December 29, 1925) is a golf course designer and a member of a family of course designers. He is married to fellow designer and former amateur champion Alice Dye.

Early life

Dye was born in Urbana, Ohio. A few years before Pete's birth, his father, Paul F. Dye also known as "Pink", got hooked on golf and built a nine-hole course on family land in Champaign County called the Urbana Country Club. Pete worked and played that course while growing up. He won the Ohio State High School Golf Championship and medaled in the Ohio State Amateur Golf Championship before he went into the Army in 1944. He attended Asheville School, a boarding school in Asheville, NC, with his brother, Andy, before he entered the Army in 1944. He entered the United States Army Airborne School at Fort Benning in Georgia to be a paratrooper, but World War II ended before he was sent overseas. He was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina where he served the rest of his hitch as greenskeeper on the base golf course. Pete Dye explained,

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National Mining Association

The National Mining Association (NMA), is a United States trade organization that lists itself as the voice of the mining industry in Washington, D.C. NMA was formed in 1995, and has more than 325 corporate members.

History

The National Mining Association was created in 1995. The organization was formed through the merger of the National Coal Association (NCA) and the American Mining Congress (AMC). These two organizations had represented the mining industry since 1897 (AMC) and 1917 (NCA).

Mission and Objectives

The NMA's mission is "to create and maintain a broad base of political support for the mining industry and to help the nation realize the economic and national security benefits of America's domestic mining capability."

The objective of the NMA is "to engage in and influence the public policy process on the most significant and timely issues that impact our ability to locate, permit, mine, process, transport and utilize the nation's vast coal and mineral resources."

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Nationwide Tour Players Cup

The Nationwide Tour Players Cup was a regular golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour from 2004 to 2009. It was played annually at the Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, West Virginia, USA. The tournament was founded in 2004 as the Pete Dye West Virginia Classic.

The 2009 purse was $600,000, with $108,000 going to the winner. Also in 2008 and 2009, the field consisted of the top 144 players on the Nationwide Tour money list.