In Reply to: golf posted by mal on Saturday, 18. June 2011 at 11:18 Bali Time:
rafflesgolfbali@live.com
If you are "merely" a visitor to Bali and love to play golf you must get in touch with the Raffles social golf group.
They are based at the New Kuta Golf (Dreamland) (a great golf course by the way) but make occasional forays to the other courses.
Without Raffles or knowing a member somewhere, you will pay too much (see mal's experience above).
Regardless, playing with Raffles will get you big discounts.
Example: (18 holes)
At New Kuta Golf, they play Wed, Fri, Sun.
Wed, 600K 12noon
Fri, 550K 10am
Sun, 450K 12noon
Price includes green fee, cart (mandatory), caddie (mandatory)
Price does not include caddie tip, usually 100K (caddies make almost all money from tip, club pays them almost nothing as salary).
Raffles has negotiated similar "group" prices at the other courses on Bali.
In addition, each outing includes a light competition (optional) with a group that averages 20-40 golfers/per.
At the above email:
club captain is Mark Watson
secretary is Roland O'neill.
Contact one one these guys first to confirm that the schedule is as I have listed. Occasionally the Sunday is canceled if there is another tournament on.
Also, occasionally on a Monday, Raffles will go play a different course.