This week's edition of The Hole Picture zeroes in on No. 9 on the Lakeside Course at Cantigny Golf in Wheaton. What's really interesting about this hole is that it features a fairway bunker in the shape of Dick Tracy's head, which you can see pretty well in this image.
Let me shed some light on that. The first thing you need to know is that Cantigny is built on the estate of Robert R. McCormick, the first publisher of the Chicago Tribune. And the Tribune employed both Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould as well as one of its longtime illustrators, Naperville resident Dick Locher, hence the nod to the comic strip detective.
Now I'll throw this out there: If you could pick someone's visage to be replicated in a bunker, who would it be? Maybe Naperville Mayor George Pradel? Or how about one in the shape of the Millenium Carillon?
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