By Toby Ingleton |
Construction is now complete on a golf course designed by Curley-Wagner Golf Design for the new Dhoho Golf Club near the city of Kediri in Indonesia’s East Java region.
The front nine has been open and playable since autumn 2025. The back nine is now growing in ahead of a scheduled opening in the second quarter of 2026.
Set in the foothills of the Gunung Liman mountains, the site features prominent ridgelines, natural elevation changes and a network of streams that are central to the course’s visual identity and strategic character. The layout has been designed to make full use of the land’s natural contours, with wide playing corridors, bold shaping and large-scale hazards intended to match the property’s expansive feel.
Dhoho is set in the foothills of the Gunung Liman mountains, in the East Java region of Indonesia (Photo: Brian Curley)
“This property offers substantially varied terrain and backdrops. The result is a design with wildly different and unique holes that create a great memorability,” said golf course architect Brian Curley. “The grand scale of the property demands a combination of fairway width and massive bunkering at times, punctuated with bahia grass islands. The streams dominate many holes and the overall landscape as they can be seen from many angles due to the elevation change.
“These may be some of the largest, most varied and wild green surfaces I have ever done on 18 holes, and they create a unique ground game experience.”
Brian Curley said Dhoho has ‘some of the largest, most varied and wild green surfaces I have ever done’ (Photo: Brian Curley)
Construction was managed by Flagstick, led by Martin Moore, whose team worked through difficult terrain and unusually heavy rainfall to bring the project to completion.
“Given those two factors, Martin and I agree that this may be one of our more satisfying efforts to not only finally see come to fruition but even surpass our expectations,” said Curley. “It’s truly a phenomenal accomplishment.”
The routing was refined during the final stages of development and hole numbering has been updated. For example, the course’s drivable par four – initially planned as the fourteenth hole – will now play as the seventeenth.
Curley-Wagner’s final routing for the Dhoho layout (Image: Curley-Wagner Golf Design)
The golf course is part of the Surya Dhoho destination development, that is designed to attract tourism and business to the area, supported by nearby infrastructure including the Dhoho Kediri International Airport and improved road access.
Dhoho’s clubhouse is currently under construction and expected to be complete in mid-2027.