This is actually the longest of the 3 PGA Village courses measuring 7150 yards from the longest tees. It resembles a Scottish links course with lots of grassy knobs and craters built into the fairways and many, many sand bunkers. They range as small as 3-yard diameter pot bunkers to large waste bunkers that run the entire length of the hole. If you've ever seen pictures of some of the desert courses in Arizona like Desert Mountain where the sand or waste areas take up alot more floorspace than the grassy areas you will know what I mean. One thing for sure about the Dye Course vs the North or South Courses, there's alot less grass to cut for the greenskeepers. We played the Dye Course in early July 2000 and found it to be most enjoyable (actually too enjoyable) if played from the forward tees. Experienced golfers will get more of a challenge from the blue tees or the gray tees. Playing from the forward tees will give you very few fairway wood shots for your second shot. I almost drove the par-4 18th green from the green tees and I'm not a big hitter. There are many huge waste bunkers that you can drive a cart into. Be sure to read the "local rules" on the back of the scorecard if you are playing any kind of competition here and you will find out that you are allowed to ground your club in these waste bunkers unlike most sand traps. For novices what that means is: in the waste bunkers you are permitted to take a practice swing. Only in those bunkers which are completely surrounded by grass are you prohibited from grounding your club. No conventional cart paths on this course. The waste bunkers are your cart paths. There's even one hole with all of the ripples and undulations of a links course with no traps at all. Some good advice would be to spend a few bucks and buy one of the yardage charts for the Dye Course with pictures of each hole at the pro-shop before you play because many of the bunkers are not visible from the tee and many of the fairways can get very narrow in the landing areas and that is not always visible from the tee either. You will find some water on this course but most of the water is separated from the grass by sand, and lots of it. From a scenery standpoint I don't think this course is as nice as either the North or South Courses because of the remnants of its recent construction. What can be said about the Dye Course is that it is certainly very different. There is nothing else like it for 18 consecutive holes anywhere on the Treasure or Space Coasts. It's as close in appearance to a treeless, windswept rippled links course as most of us will ever play without crossing the pond. Personally, the only course that I've ever played that is a more genuine Scottish Links course than this place is a course called Hawkshead in South Haven, Michigan if any of you have been there.

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EXCELLENT SET OF COURSES, PLAYED DYE JAN 02 AND NORTH AND SOUTH IN THE PAST. EXCELLENT SERVICE FRIENDLY PEOPLE. $80.00 IS ACCEPTABLE FOR THESE COURSES NORTH AND SOUTH MORE FRIENDLY FOR OLDER PLAYERS. COURSES IN GREAT CONDITION.