Around a hundred kilometers from Seoul, the Woo Jeong Hills golf course was designed by Perry Dye, the son of legendary architect Pete Dye who created the famous Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in Flor
ida. This track is every bit the poor-man’s TPC course, with Dye junior paying homage to his Dad’s work and leaving Korean golfers big mounds, plenty of water, heroic design and even an island-green par three. The problem with Woo Jeong Hills is that nothing here is original or particularly well built, it’s not a bad course but the mounding is overdone, the shaping not near the level of sophistication seen on Dye senior courses and some of the replica holes are just silly. An example is
