“The dunes led the 
way, and Perry added 
the heartbeat. I was 
simply honored to be 
on the dance floor.”
 “I’d felt this pressure before; it 
felt like golf, but the stakes 
had significantly greater historical 
impact. Let’s face it, nobody’s going 
to remember an awkward, fleeting 
golf swing in a hundred years, but 
the brush strokes … just maybe.”
 “We spent an afternoon with Bill 
Southern, who played his first round at 
Prairie Dunes in 1963, and listened to 
the first-hand accounts of how each 
hole played. The stories, the history, 
the changes the course had seen over 
the years. It was sinking in.”
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