HECKLED BY A HALL-OF-FAMER

I had a unique experience this past Monday evening at venerable Coral Ridge CC in Ft. Lauderdale, where the 77th annual Doherty Cup was being contested. For the second time in three years I was asked to be the dinner speaker for this gathering of some of the world’s top women amateurs. But unlike in 2007, this time, Pete and Alice Dye (she the 1967 Doherty champ) were in the audience. The gist of my remarks were about my new Pete Dye Book, and of course by association, the man himself. Well—wouldn’t you know it, Pete the iconoclast, sitting at the VIP table towards the front of the room and quite near the podium, heckled me a few times during my remarks!
Nothing too derogatory of course, he was just adding in a few facts and figures that I was glossing over or had forgotten as I told the assemblage about his life in golf. I had a couple of good laugh lines built in to the address, but I think the highlight of the evening, entertainment-wise, was when I told the crowd: “This is a unique experience for me. I’ve never been heckled by a Hall-of-Famer before!”