Eat, Play, Love

Craig Morrison travels to Bali, the Island of the Gods, where golf has firmly taken root

BALI GOLF ****

This is a great, great course and rumour has it that the new Indonesian owners plan improvements in an attempt to make it – once again – the island’s very best.

The hilly front nine plays parkland style through the Nusa Dua estate, the security-checked resort which is home to some of Bali’s very best hotels. The back nine, still within Nusa Dua, meanders through massive coconut groves (amongst huge almost endless white sand bunkers and lakes teeming with large Alu lizards) down to the Amanusa Beach Club – one of the swankiest most eye-popping anywhere – before turning back again to the fabulous clubhouse.

The signature hole is the ninth which requires a muscular downhill drive to set up as short a strike as possible over a lovely but sizeable and looming lake. My favourites though were earlier in the floral front half, the third and fourth being a long two-shotter and a short single-shotter over tiered paddy fields: unique examples of golf course landscaping.

The club has a small number of villas which look entirely amazing, luxurious beyond belief. Guests enjoy their own dedicated staff and private pool as well as use of the Amanusa Beach Club.

Bali Golf & Country Club
Yardage: 6,888 Par: 72
Designed by Nelson & Haworth
Contact: baligolfandcountryclub.com

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Written by Craig Morrison

Photography by Robin Moyer

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