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    G O L F   T O U R

Golf in Sri Lanka,  During the British occupation in 1860, they have played golf in the Galle face green, also they brought cricket, horse racing and Football to this Island. The Ridgeway Links was declared open in 9th December 1896, by the Governor Sir Joseph West Ridgeway at its present location on Model Farm Road, Borella. One of the finest 18 hole courses in Asia. And the Amateur Golf Championship. as the oldest national championship in the world. In Sri Lanka there are four golf courses, Two are situated in Colombo, One in Digana and One in Nuwara Eliya, Colombo at sea level, Digana at 600 m and Nuwara Eliya at an elevation of 1859 meters with distinctly different terrain and climate conditions. This contributes to the enjoyment and challenge as you could be playing golf in three different countries.
Golf

The Royal Colombo Golf Club: The Royal Colombo Golf Club is easily accessible, being 20 minutes drive from all first-class hotels in the city. This course is 5'770 m long (par 71). A flat course with broad fairways which looks simple to beginners but there are many water hazards and well guarded bunkers which quickly change the opinion.
Waters Edge - Colombo Water Edges1 Asia Pacific Golf Courses Limited introduces "Waters Edge" the leading hospitality & leisure facility in the suburbs of the city of Colombo. Situated one Km. away from the parliament and 2 kms. from Colombo "Waters Edge" is a place of uncommon beauty & refinement with a vast range of new features and facilities. A land area of over 200 acres, offers a 18 hole golf course housing a Golf & Country Club.
Entry to 'Waters Edge' leads you to the 'Club House' which is connected to the 'Golf & Country Club' by a walkway named "The Link". These two buildings together with its support systems occupy 12 acres of the total land area.
The Banquet venues range from a Grand Ballroom, to an open Lobby leading onto a grassy terrace that could be adorned with magnificent marquees. The par 72, 18hole Golf Course, majority of the land area is covered by waterways, which would be the main hazards,
The course have Five par 5's, Five par 3's and Eight par 4's being almost link like in design, the wind will also make it challenging whilst making playing conditions pleasant,
The Driving range have 20 bays, 300 meters in length and floodlit for practicing at night, Golfers will have a choice of practicing off turf or on artificial mats. There is also a a chip and put area with bunkers,
Water Edges1 Entry to 'Waters Edge ' leads you to the 'Club House ' which is connected to the 'Golf & Country Club ' by a walkway named 'The Link'. These two buildings together with its support systems occupy 12 acres of the total land area.

  • Holes : 18
  • Metal Spikes : Not allowed
  • Driving Range : Available
  • Rental Clubs : Available
  • Pro : Available
  • Tee times : 6.30am until sunset
  • SCORE CARD: Tee      Par       Yards
  • White     72 6106
    Yellow       72 5738
    Red (Ladies Only)     73 5017 Water Edge also has a 500 square feet state of art fitness centre, a 25meter Swimming Pool, A Banquet Hall, An Air condition Bar equipped with 02 Pool tables, Hair and Beauty Saloon, and Aryana Spa.

    Victoria Golf Club - Digana
    is situated 25 km east of Kandy and 150 km from Colombo. This course is 6'190 m long (par 73) a championship golf course designed by Donald Steel and inaugurated early in 1999. The fairways are rather narrow in a hilly country side. Stately trees and avenues of coconuts lend the course an immediate air maturity. Impressive natural outcrops of rocks are a distinctive feature and indeed a hazard of the course. www.victoriagolf.lkGofl at Victoria Victoria now offer three Chalets, each with two specious en-suite double bedrooms to visiting golfers and their families, each room have verandah adjoining view across the fairways, The chalets are located close to the club house and swimming pool complex but far away enough to provide an oasis of peace, with only the birds to disturb you.


    The Nuwara Eliya Golf Club
    is 10 minutes walk from the Grand Hotel, This course is on of the Best in Asia, and Golf is Played throughout the year,
    This is reputed to be one of Asia's finest is 5'520 m (par 71). The fairways are long and narrow and bordered by firm trees and thick bushes. It demands skilful "position play" and the hilly terrain makes it essential that players can cope with up-hill and down-hill lies.
    68Km from Kandy and 190 km from Colombo to Nuwara Eliya

    Tour Programme - Day 01 Met on arrival at Bandarayaike International airport and transferred to Colombo Colombo Stay in Colombo Gall Face Hotel Regency wing, Afternoon city tour. Colombo is the commercial capital of Sri Lanka with a population of 1,4 million. The Fort, in the very centre of the city, is where most of the colonial remnants mainly from the British era are to be found. Nearby Pettah is Colombo's busiest and most traditional bazaar, Overnight at your hotel.

    Day 2 Program
    Colombo Golf Course Morning transfer to The Royal Colombo Golf Club for a morning and/or afternoon session of golf. - You can have your lunch at the golf club. After the game transfer back to Gall Face hotel.Regency wing for dinner / overnight.


    Galle Face Hotel  

    Day 3 Program - Colombo - Kandy ,
    After an early breakfast leave Kandy, through lush greenery, paddy fields, palm-groves and coconut plantations. En-route visit the elephant orphanage, at Pinnawela, where the abandoned Elephants are reared at captivity, you can watch the feeding or the daily bath in the river, You can stop for a short visit at a rubber factory, where you will learn in detail, how the milky sap called latex is treated to become raw rubber. After this stop you will enjoys a beautiful panoramic view of the central highland with its hills and mountains. At noon you reach, the old royal city of Kandy, situated at 500 m, beautifully nestled between green hills. At its very centre lies a small artificial lake and the palace of the last Singhalese king which has become a temple and the holiest shrine in Sri Lanka, where the tooth relic of Lord Buddha is highly venerated. You will pay a visit to this temple in the later afternoon. Visit the world famous Botanical Garden at Peradeniya. The park dates back to 1371 under the reign of king Vikrama Bahu III when he held court here. Established in 1821. During the Second World War the garden served as the headquarters of Earl Mountbatten, the supreme commander of the allied forces in Southeast Asia who became later the last Viceroy of India. You will find in the garden a very large variety of orchids, spice trees, palms, bushes, as well as tropical plants and flowers of all type. Lunch at Garden Restaurant and leave to Hotel. In the evening you will pay a visit to the temple of the holy tooth. After the temple visit you have the opportunity to attend a dance performance, where you will see the famous Kandyan dances, as well as up- country and devil dances. Overnight at your hotel.
    Day 4 Program - Kandy Victoria Golf Club, Digana - Kandy
    After breakfast leave to Victoria Golf Club, Digana, situated about 24 km from Kandy for one or two rounds of golf. Return hotel after your golfing.
    Day 5 Kandy - Nuwara Eliya After breakfast you leave to Nuwara Eliya. From Peradeniya the road starts to ascend steadily and in the late morning, shortly before reaching Nuwara Eliya, you will have climbed 1'500 m. You are now in the tea country, The small resort town of Nuwara Eliya, situated at 2颞 m above sea level, lies beside a little lake and is surrounded by mountains covered by tea plantations. Vegetable plantations and flower fields, Check in at Grand Hotel for dinner and overnight, During the British rule, the Grand Hotel was the summer palace of the English governor. In the afternoon transfer to the Nuwara Golf Club for a round of golf. Transfer back to the Grand Hotel for overnight.
    Day 6 Nuwara Eliya Grand Hotel Transfers to the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club for Golf and after the game, back again to the hotel.
    Day 7 Nuwara Eliya - Colombo - After breakfast checkout from hotel and leave to Colombo, a short while later you will reach the Ramboda pass at 2'200 m, the highest elevation of your tour. From the descending road you see again the rich full green of the tea estates with the white-coloured tea factories. You will stop at one of these working Tea factories where you will learn how the green tea leaves become the well known Ceylon teas. While descending into the lowlands, you will come across the paddy fields and vegetable plots, which border the settlements. Later you will see again paddy fields and coconut plantations. You will stop at one of the spice gardens there you can see a lot of trees, bushes and plants cropping spices. You will reach Colombo in the evening. Check-in at Hotel in Colombo at your choice.
    Day 8 Colombo Watrs Ege After breakfast transfer to Waters Edges Golf Club for golf and after the game back to the hotel again. evening at leisure,Overnight at the hotel.
    Day 9 Colombo Checkout from hotel and leave to airport in time for departure flight or optional, beach stay in Sri Lanka or Maldives could be arranged. Green fees in Colombo, Digana and Nuwara Eliya per person per day.
    On a working day USD 35.00,    On weekends and holidays USD 50.00   Caddie fees per round per day USD 15.00 Above rates are subject to change

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