Golf Digest - Feb 2022

NEW COURSE

FROM SIR NICK WITH LOVE

WELCOME TO PAKISTAN’S FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP SIGNATURE COURSE – AND ONE OF SIR NICK FALDO’S MOST EXCITING DESIGN CHALLENGES YET

BY KENT GRAY

any course with sir nick faldo’s signature on it rouses serious curiosity and especially so a new layout imagined into life in an emerging golf nation.

Welcome, then, to Rumanza Golf & Country Club, Pakistan’s first signature championship course located on the outskirts of Multan, the country’s fifth largest city in the southern confines of the Punjab region.

Featuring four lakes, 49 “eco” bunkers with revetted faces and desert, wetland and woodland zones, the 7533-yard, par-72 layout is the centrepiece of the new Defense Housing Authority (DHA) Multan residential and lifestyle community.

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point ecologically and proudly so with the build undertaken with 100 percent local materials. The native sand has been dressed with Platinum TE paspalum grass to “ensure speed and precision”, trademarks of Faldo’s “hard and fast running” links upbringing and contemporary design ethos. It is has been carefully routed around mango and orange orchards and indigenous Deras - vernacular mud brick dwellings surrounded by walls which form a courtyard.

“These local touches make it a truly unique playing experience,” says Sam Clayton, General Manager of Golf Operations.

“I have no doubt it will become a must-visit for avid golf tourists.”