The Urbana Country Club celebrated its centennial and Dye Golf marked 100 years in the course design business over the weekend.
On Saturday, UCC held a Centennial Open golf tournament in which players formed foursomes and played with hickory shaft golf clubs and golf balls from the 1922 era, when the Urbana Country Club was founded.
Players wore clothing of the 1922 era and ended the day with a dinner party including foods commonly eaten in 1922 as well as music from the era.
P.F. “Pink” Dye was the first member of the Dye family to design a golf course, located on hilly farm land east of Ludlow Road called the Urbana Country Club.
Dye’s grandson, P.B. Dye, designed the nine holes added to make the country club an 18-hole course in the early 1990s.
P.B.’s father, Pete Dye, was a world-famous golf course architect who grew up in Urbana. Pete Dye was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2008.
Throughout 2022, UCC is celebrating its centennial with various events marking the milestone of the Dye Original.