THE FIFTEENTH AT PRINCESS ANNE

I caught up with Tim Liddy in March and we shared an enjoyable round at Chechessee Creek. We sat down for a Guinness afterward and he was nice enough to let me ask him a few questions on video. (After the jump).

I worked with Tim at Princess Anne Country Club in Virgina Beach during the summer of 2007. Tim had won the job of completely overhauling an existing course that wound through an old neighborhood. The old course was generic and frankly not very good. The result of the renovation was a very playable, fun golf course that has many classic elements.

I was impressed by Tim’s willingness to try new things. He has had a good long career as Pete Dye’s righthand man and he could go about cranking out copies of his masters work, but is clear from Princess Anne and also his recent work at the Dukes Course in Scotland that he is eager and even hungry to continue to evolve as an architect. I enjoyed working for him because it allowed me to gleam something about Pete Dye’s way of thinking about design. I hope to work with Tim again in the near future.