Former Wildcat Dana Fry designed U.S. Open course

June’s U.S. Open will be played at a new course, Erin Hills, which is northwest of Milwaukee. Of all the prominent names to play in the Arizona golf program the last 50 years, the latest to surface nationally is Dana Fry, the course architect of Erin Hills. Fry was a walk-on at Arizona in 1980, getting a spot on Rick LaRose’s team, in part, by shooting a 64 at Randolph North one day. Fry’s big break came when the Ventana Canyon Golf Course was under construction in 1983. He volunteered to help course designer Tom Fazio and was first assigned to flag saguaro cacti designated for transplanting. After that, Fry began “shaping” the course, driving a bulldozer. He quit competitive golf to work for Fazio, and now he is a U.S. Open designer himself. 

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