--Amazing Property. Reminiscent of a Scottish-style ball-golf links course with wind blown tall grass and sand dunes. On an old ball golf course to boot. Pond with wooden retaining wall, et al. Potential to be one of the BEST 9-Hole courses anywhere. Seriously! However: (see Cons and pics)

--CACTUS. It's everywhere. You can't get away from it. You're going to need knee-high rubber muck boots to play this course... and they better be thick! I threw my drive on the first hole, walked 1/3 the way down the fairway (I hadn't seen the cactus yet) and I felt something bite me on the back of the knee. I looked down and I had a cactus pad clinging to my pants... it had worked its way up my leg with every step I took. I plucked it off, took ten steps, looked down, and I had another cactus pad stuck to my shoe. I plucked it off. At this point I started being vigilant, trying not to step on cactus. But you can't miss it! I took another 30 steps and had 3 cactus pads stuck to my shoe (see pic). When I got to my disc, there was a cactus stuck to my disc.
I finished out the hole, turned around and played Hole 8 (on the way back toward the clubhouse), and unfortunately, had to walk away from the course. When I got back to the car, I spent 20 minutes plucking cactus spines out of the bottom of my shoes. Some of them I couldn't get out. I'm waiting for those to work their way through my soles and start stabbing me in the bottom of the foot... seriously!

--WEAR RUBBER BOOTS! Unfortunately, there's no way--without the aforementioned rubber muck boots--to safely play this course. Now I know why the ball golf course went out of business.
--DO NOT BRING YOUR DOGS... or your wife! Even is there wasn't cactus, there's these nasty little briar-thorn-balls that cling to everything... and they hurt to remove. Our dogs had gotten them stuck in the feet at another place during our trip to the Outer Banks. They were not happy!
--You're Trespassing. You have park across the street at one of the shops, and cross an entrance to the old ball golf course that has a chained barricade with a No Trespassing sign. I was skeptical that this was the course, but it was... enter at your own risk, I guess. (risk of getting a ticket, cactus, briar-thorns, or tetanus from the run down golf equipment).
--You're practically IN the Ocean. This course is so far out there on the Outer Banks, you're practically in the middle of the ocean. Look at the map! This has to be one of the most isolated courses anywhere.
--My Score: It has to be rated a 1.0 because you simply cannot play this course safely. If the cactus wasn't there, I could have easily seen myself giving this course a 4.0 or even a 4.5... which would be an incredible score for a 9-hole course. From what I could see, which was basically the whole course laid out across the sand dunes, the shots had amazing potential... the property is just that good!