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The world's most dangerous golf hole is surrounded by minefields [1]

['Ellsworth Toohey']

Date: 2026-08-06  

Camp Bonifas, the United Nations Command post 400 meters south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, has a golf course. One hole, par 3, with an AstroTurf green — and minefields on three sides. Sports Illustrated called it "the most dangerous hole in golf," and there are reports that at least one shot detonated a land mine.

The camp houses the security battalion that monitors and enforces the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement, and its soldiers escort the official orientation tours of the Joint Security Area, where North and South Korean troops face each other across the Military Demarcation Line. There's also a gift shop selling DMZ souvenirs. The Washington Post's Kevin Sullivan described the place in 1998 as a "small collection of buildings surrounded by triple coils of razor wire" that, minus the minefields and soldiers, would "look like a big Boy Scout camp."

The camp was renamed in 1986 for Captain Arthur G. Bonifas, one of two American officers killed by North Korean soldiers in the 1976 "Korean axe murder incident" over the trimming of a poplar tree in the JSA.

Previously:

• Train to nowhere and dead-eyed stares: my visit to the Korean demilitarized zone

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