Prairie Dunes Country Club is the great inland links of the American heartland, and the masterpiece of its designer, Perry Maxwell. Prairie Dunes was estab­lished by the four sons of Emerson Carey, who had founded the Carey Salt Company after vast deposits of sodium chloride were discovered in Hutchinson, the remnants of what had once been a great saltwater sea covering central Kansas. Dedicated golfers, the Careys hired Maxwell in the mid-1930s to design a course on 480 acres northeast of Hutchinson. Maxwell immediately recognized the potential offered by the rolling sand hills. His son Press, who became a successful golf course architect, recalled: "It seemed to him, as it did to many others, that this part of Kansas looked just like parts of Scotland. He thought that the area would be a wonderful site for a Scottish-type course in the valleys of the sand hills." Maxwell designed 18 holes through the crests and dips of the dunes and the lovely old cottonwood trees, with fairways brushed by wild plum bushes, yucca plants, bluestem, sunflowers, milkweed, and crowfoot grass. Only nine of the holes were built in 1937, with the additional nine completed by Press Maxwell nearly two decades later in 1956. The wildly tossing greens are known as the "Maxwell rolls." In 2002, Juli Inkster shot a sizzling final-round 66 at Prairie Dunes to capture her second U.S. Women's Open.