Landfall Country Club Golf Course

The Country Club of Landfall is a private club near Wilmington set along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and it is unusual in offering two big-name championship layouts totaling 45 holes. The Dye Course came first, built by Pete Dye with P.B. Dye and Bobby Weed and opened in 1987 across a surprisingly rolling stretch of coastal ground, with restrained water that sharpens near the closing holes and a short, reachable par-5 finisher. Jack Nicklaus followed in 1990 with an 18-hole Signature course, later expanded to 27 holes in 2000. Routed through saltwater and freshwater marsh in a double-loop pattern, the Nicklaus design brings water into play on most holes and threads bluff views over the waterway, framed by oak and pine.