TGJ Podcast 60

Ken Wang

Meet Vera Wang's brother who hired Pete Dye to build Pound Ridge GC

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Ken Wang has a degree in economics from MIT, is the brother of fashion designer Vera Wang, and, most important to us, is the founder/owner of the Pete Dye-designed Pound Ridge Golf Club in New York. He joins Tom Coyne to discuss his fervent belief in public courses, how Dye got what he wanted in the design, the democratization of the game, and how Vera plays “Bill Clinton golf.” Listen above.

“I don’t know what it is about golf: You can play with the gas station attendant, you could play with the CEO, and by the second or third hole you’re all friends.”
Ken Wang

Photo: Pound Ridge Golf Club

Dye and Wang on an intial survey of Pound Ridge. The project would go down as Dye’s only New York design. Photo: Pound Ridge Golf Club

Photo: Pound Ridge Golf Club