BALI GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB

Location: Nusa Dua, adjacent to the Ayodya Resort Bali
PO Box 12, Nusa Dua, Bali 80363, Indonesia

Bali Golf and Country Club offers players three different environments throughout the course. The 6,839 total yardage (6,314 meters) is 72 par. The first nine holes play inland and uphill, through dense tropical vegetation, providing magnificent views of the Nusa Dua tourism enclave below, and on a clear day, the distant mountains. Course architects Robin Nelson and Rodney Wright, of Hawaii,incorporated low, hand-built stone walls to terrace the fairways and tee boxes, emulating rice fields in the countryside.

Holes 10 through 16 follow gently sculpted fairways through a mature cooconut grove. The palms, some as tall as 100 feet ( 31 meters 0, provide vertical definition for the course. The last set of holes, 17 and 18, are seaside. The former plays out to the beach and blue Indian Ocean, usually into the wind, while the latter plys back from the beach to the club house, along a 16-acre lake.

Inaugurated in 1991, the course in 1994 hosted the Alfred Dunhill Masters, with Nick Faldo and Colin Montgomery, and the Johnny Walker Skins, with Ian Woosnam and Vijay Singh. Club facilities include a driving range, two putting greens and a chipping practice green. Caddies and carts are required, and the cart cooler box is stocked with beverages. The Clubhouse has a bar and restaurant. Two half-way cafes serve light meals. Locker rooms have showers and changing facilities. A pro shop, spa and 27-yard (25-meter) swimming pool complete facilities.