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The Pete Dye Course at Tianjin Binhai Lake Golf Club is an 18-hole, par-72 layout in Tianjin's Binhai coastal district, measuring 7,667 yards from its longest published tees. It opened in 2011 and was created as a collaboration between Pete Dye and Schmidt-Curley designers Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley. The site presented an unusual construction problem: it lay within a man-made lake, which was drained and excavated, with material from the lake bottom used to form the peninsula supporting the golf course.
Contemporary design reporting describes ten holes as exposed lakefront holes. The course was the first of two planned 18-hole layouts at Binhai Lake, with a separate Schmidt-Curley course following. It hosted the 2012 Volvo China Open, won by Branden Grace.
The course is an 18-hole links golf course. It plays to par 72, 7,011m (7,667 yards). Designed by Brian Curley and Pete Dye and Lee Schmidt, the course originally opened in 2011.
Binhai Lake formed part of a large new urban development in Tianjin's coastal district. The first golf course was conceived as a collaboration between Schmidt-Curley and Pete Dye, who had previously mentored Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley on several major projects.
The designers transformed an unusually difficult site rather than adapting naturally golf-ready land. Contemporary reporting identifies ten windswept lakefront holes, with the exposed water-edge setting forming a central part of the course's character.
The first course opened in 2011. It was the initial half of a planned 36-hole facility, with a second 18-hole Schmidt-Curley layout scheduled to follow. The Pete Dye Course was selected before opening to host the following year's Volvo China Open.
Hosting the 2012 Volvo China Open brought the course immediate international tournament exposure. Branden Grace won the event.
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