| The course is laid out on a hilly countryside
with good uphill and downhill fairways. The greens are not in good condition but
they are hard, so you need to spin balls to bite the greens; otherwise, approach
shots off the greens are tough because most greens are elevated and contoured.
Compared to the average Gary Player designed courses, this course is not that
challenging partly due to the small number of trees separating holes and partly
due to the small sizes of the trees, even if a hole has many, even though the
course has been opened for more than 10 years.
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gentle dogleg to the right. There is a pond on the left 220 yards off the tee.
The pretty elevated green is well protected by bunkers. |
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A dogleg to the left. The green
is elevated with a big bunker in front of it. |
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| A slightly downhill par 3 from an
elevated tee. Avoid hitting into bunkers left of the green because they are deep.
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A downhill, pretty par 3. The green
slopes from front to back and bunkers guard the green. |
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You can drive hard because the
fairway is wide. However, you need to lay up in front of a pond, extending from
the front edge of the green to 120 yards off the green, by using a middle iron.
The view of the green is nice when seen from in front of the pond. |
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| A long, gentle dogleg to the right. The fairway
is tight with a series of bunkers on the right and a natural pond on the left,
so a long as well as precise drive is required on this excellent hole. The second
shot is gently uphill and the contoured green is guarded by bunkers. |
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It takes less than one hour by car from Pattaya. Gary Player has designed
200 courses around the world, about 30 of them in Asia. There are Kai
Sai Chau Public GC - North Course in Hong Kong, Ria
Bintan Resort in Indonesia, Manna CC in Japan, Sand
River (深圳砂河) GC, Zhaoqing (肇慶) R&GC
in China, Puerto Azul B&CC, Orchard G&CC - Player Course in the Philippines. |
2nd Par 4 403 yards (3)