World Class Golf Comes To Makassar

The city of Makassar is located on the southern end of the island of Sulawesi. It is the 10^th largest city in the Indonesian archipelago and home to 1.3 million people. For many decades the only golf in Makassar has been provided by a bare bones military course. That is until a partnership of four local businessmen was formed to bring “world class golf” to the city. Their company, Galesong Group, selected an ideal parcel of land for the creation of Padivalley - a mixed use, master planned golf community located less than 30 minutes drive from the heart of Makassar. In addition to the championship golf course, Padivalley includes housing estates, sports club, resort hotel and day villas.

Padivalley - Hole #14

Padivalley Golf Club is a 7,150 yard, 18-hole layout that flows across mountain shoulders and broad valleys. According to the golf course architect, Bob Moore of JMP Golf Design Group, “The golf course design is an esthetically beautiful layout featuring seven man-made lakes, rocky stream channels, cape & bay bunkers and massive stone walls set against the backdrop of mountain ranges. It is also a golf course that presents tremendous challenge from the championship tees. In its first year of existence it has already been selected to host an ASEAN PGA Tour Event, the 2012 Gowa Padivalley Classic.”

Padivalley - View from the Clubhouse

The Padivalley clubhouse is dramatically perched on a promontory rising 40 meters above the surrounding valley and from which ten of the 18 holes can be seen. The starting holes plunge down from this mountain ridge providing long-range views of more than 30 kilometers. The golf course is environmentally sensitive to the land form and incorporates a unique mix of five par 3s and five par 5s into the par 72 layout. Tees, fairways and roughs are turfed with Salam paspallum, greens are turfed with Sea Isle Supreme paspallum and thousands of ornamental grasses and trees provide framing to the golf course.

Padivalley - Hole #8