Friday, December 30, 2005

Kurmitola Golf Course, an oasis of green and quietness in the madhouse that is Dhaka. A relief to tormented ears, a soothing for sore eyes and quite simply the nicest place you can go to forget about all about "it" - if, and that's a big IF you didn't have to play golf here. Lots of water, trees where you don't want them (like in front of the greens and somehow the fairways never quite seem wide enough.

The front nine are mostly manageable, but the back nine bring grown up man to their knees (quite literally so in particular when the temperatures hover around 38°C and humidity approaches 90%).

Here is the layout of the course and if you click on the hole a pop-up tells you par, rating and distances for the hole.