76 Near the city of Kediri in Indonesia’s East Java region, the new Dhoho Golf Club is ready to open one of Asia’s most dramatic new courses. Part of the Surya Dhoho destination development that is designed to attract tourism and business to the area, supported by new road and airport infrastructure, the club’s eye-catching new layout was designed by Brian Curley of Curley-Wagner Golf Design. Dhoho is set in the eastern foothills of Gunung Liman, a 2,500-metre-high dormant volcano that defines the landscape for at least 25 miles in every direction from its peak. As a result, the golf course site has significant elevation change, prominent ridgelines and a network of streams. “This property offers substantially varied terrain and backdrops,” says Curley. “The result is a design with wildly different and unique holes that create great memorability.” Curley, whose extensive portfolio of designs in Asia meant he was perfectly at home with the challenging site, sought to create a golf experience that embraces the site’s natural characteristics. “The grand scale of the property demands a combination of fairway width REPORT Asia’s next best design? Brian Curley has routed a new course over dramatic mountain terrain in the East Java region of Indonesia. Image: Curley-Wagner Golf Design Dhoho was originally conceived as a 27-hole project, but was adapted to become two loops of nine
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NzQ1NTk=