Growing up, Fort Miles was a constant passion for Joe Johnson. Any chance he had he spent exploring the closed up ...

gobbling up space as it slithers into the valleys and through natural gaps in the dunes. Where the course differs is in some of the design details. The bunkers at other Sandhills courses (Dismal ...

It plays from an exposed, 20-foot-high dune ridge across a valley to a narrow fingernail of green surrounded by five deep bunkers awaiting shots that will teeter off the crested edges. On a calm ...

“They were creepy, scary and exciting,” said Johnson of Lewes, who spent years with a flashlight exploring the dark spaces of the bunkers built under the great dune. Now he is part of a group ...