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Indonesia Open

It’s Indonesian Open Golf Tournament time again and this year the competition has moved to Bali from its traditional home in Jakarta. The tournament will take place at the newly opened Dreamland New Kuta Golf Resort which is located on the south western rim of Bali’s Bukit Peninsula. This superb new par 72 course overlooks both the Indian Ocean and the scenic sands of Balangan Beach and measures over 7,500 yards in total. The New Kuta course is also the first ‘links style’ golf course in the country. Links courses are located in coastal areas, on sandy soil, often among dunes, with few water hazards and few, if any, trees. This reflects both the nature of the Scottish scenery where the sport was born and the fact that only limited resources were available to golf course architects at the time.

Bali is well known for its superb, world class golf courses as well as its beaches and rich culture and the island has long been a favorite haunt of European golfers passing through the region. This year’s hopefuls at New Kuta will be teeing off on an unfamiliar course whose strong cliff top winds and Two-meter-deep bunkers should really prove challenging and make for an enthralling tournament. The tournament will be held between February 26th and March 1st and, with a record breaking purse of US$1.25 million up for grabs, looks set to be as keenly contested as ever. Already Indonesia’s richest sporting prize, event sponsors, Global One, are committed to increasing the event’s prize fund over the next few years so that the country’s top golfers will continue to have an opportunity to rub shoulders with the best players from the Asian and European Tours.

Previous winners of the Indonesian Open include Chile’s Felipe Aguilar, Finland’s Mikko Ilonen (expected to be playing again this year) and England’s Simon Dyson. Many of the world’s top players have participated in the tournament during the four years since it started and local golf fans have been able to enjoy the smooth driving and putting skills of Ryder Cup players such as Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley of Ireland. Local fans were also thrilled when an unprecedented four local players managed to make the cut at last year’s tournament. Hopefully the host country will be able to mount an equally impressive performance this year.

Moving the Open from Jakarta, its home for past four years, to Bali should also help to further spread the gospel of golf across Indonesia.
“We were pleased that this world class event will once again be held in Indonesia,” said Jero Wacik, head of the Indonesian Golf Association (PGI), himself a native of Bali. “As Bali is home to a number of international class golf courses, we hope this event will help increase people’s awareness of golf as a sport and that this tournament will aid in finding the next generation of golfers in Indonesia.” Coming hot on the heels of the Johnny Walker Classic, the tournament should hopefully raise the sports profile even further in the country.