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A par 3 over a ravine. The green is surrounded by trees. You feel like your
are in a forest off the tee. This is not an easy hole as the ravine on the
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| A slightly dogleg to the left, difficult hole. The fairway
is somewhat generous but a large bunker on the left is well in play. The
closer to the green, the narrower the fairway becomes. The whole left side
of the green faces a lake and the green is no wide, so a well-stricken fade
ball is required on the second shot. When you are not confident on the second
shot, you should lay up right in front right of the green and try to save
par with one chip and one put. |
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A straight hole which requires very demanding tee shot. The landing area
off the tee is considerably squeezed by water on the right and trees on
the left. The green is slightly elevated and has subtle undulations. |
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A uphill, dogleg to the right. You should avoid a series of bunkers at the
right corner because they are deep. The fairway is wavy with OB on the right
and left. The distance perspective will be difficult on the approach shot
as it is uphill to a blind green. |
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| A signature hole. A dogleg to the left along a large lake.
The landing area of the second shot is squeezed by the lake on the left
and bunkers on the right. The left side of the green faces the lake and
the green slopes from the right toward the left lake. The view of trees
and the town buildings reflected on the lake is superb. |
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| A very long and straight par 4. The fairway slopes form the
right to the left on the tee shot. You hit shots toward a hotel that looks
like a mosque. The appearance of Islamic architecture behind the green is
impressive.
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| An almost straight hole. Water comes into play on the right
on the tee shot and another water comes into play on the left on the second
shot.
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A very shot but interesting hole. A carry of 220 yards is needed to clear
2 bunkers on the center of the fairway. A long hitter can drive close to
the green but when his shot is too much from the left to the right, it will
be in a big lake bordering the right of the fairway. The green slightly
slopes from the front to the back. |
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A beautiful par 3 over a large lake. The front and right sides of the green
face the lake. The inverted reflections of buildngs of the other side of
the lake, seen of the lake, are really impresive. |
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| It is a 30-minute drive from Central Kuala Lumpur and a
40-minute drive from the airport.
You need to be accompanied by member to play. However, visitors can play
on weekdays only if they use a golf package of staying at either one of
2 hotels, The Mines Resort or Palace of the Golden Horses. This package
was very expensive compare to the average prices in Malaysia but was worth
it because the course was great.
High-class residential area is in the course. I saw the villa of the
former Prime Minister Mahathir.
The measures are in meters. I could choose freely the tee to play. The
gold tees, the longest, don’t have the course rating and are about 500
longer than the blue tees of 6287 yards that have the official course
rating of 70.6, so I estimated the gold tees as about 72.8. This course
is par 71 and if it were converted into par 72, the figure would become
the high figure of 73.8.
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The golf club hosted the Carlsberg Malaysia Open 2003,
PGA European Tour. The world cup of golf 1999 was also held at the golf
club and the United States team, Tiger Woods & Mark O'Meara, won
the event.
The course was chosen the 5th best course in Malaysia by Golf Malaysia
readers’ polls in 2004. The course was also chosen the 2nd best course
after SaujanaCC - Palm Course
by Asian Golf Monthly readers’ polls in 2004.
The other Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed courses in Malaysia
are Bukit Jambul CC, Desaru G &CC, Pulai Springs Resort – Pulai
Springs Course, and Raffles CC in the neighboring country, Singapore.
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A view from the clubhouse