Golfing Giants

BELOW: Jupiter resident Daniel Berger has encouraged many of his fellow golfers to become Dye Preserve members. GETTY IMAGES/ COURTESY PHOTO

Jupiter’s Dye Preserve was perhaps the most-represented club at the recent PGA Championship.

Eight members from the private club in Jupiter qualified for the year’s second major championship. That was more than five percent of the field at Valhalla Golf Club.

Dye Preserve member Dean Burmester was in contention before finishing tied for 12th, a position he shared with fellow Dye Preserve member Alex Noren. Corey Connors tied for 26th, and Joaquin Niemann was T39.

“We are very proud of what our professional members have accomplished, including qualifying for the PGA,” says Dye Preserve’s general manager Kurt Thompson. “We’d like to think the high quality of our Pete Dye-designed course and the practice facilities have played a role in their success.”

Pete Dye designed Dye Preserve’s course in 1988 (when it was known as Cypress Links) and renovated it in 2002.

“Good players want to practice with other good players because it makes everyone better,” says longtime Jupiter resident Daniel Berger, who joined the Dye Preserve when he was 13. “What most of us love about Dye Preserve is it’s all about the golf.”

Many Dye Preserve’s professionals say they joined the club because of the course, designed in 1988.

Dye Preserve members were also successful on the LIV Golf Tour and the DP European Tour. Niemann won twice this year on the LIV Golf circuit and captured the Australian Open last December.

Burmester won a pair of DP European Tour titles late last year and followed that up with a playoff win over Sergio Garcia at LIV Golf Miami.

Four Pete Dye designed courses were used for PGA Tour events this year. THE DYE PRESERVE/ COURTESY PHOTOS

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