13 Rumanza Golf Club in Multan, Pakistan, has opened its new Sir Nick Faldo Signature course. The club, part of a new 9,000-acre community being developed by the Defence Housing Authority of Multan, also has a six-hole parthree layout and a practice range. “The course should challenge the top players from the back tees but be eminently playable for all other standards of golfer from the other tees,” said Andy Haggar, lead architect at Faldo Design. “The fairways are quite generous to help golfers keep the ball in play, whilst at the same time, the shaping and placement of the hazards challenge the better players to put the ball in the right place. “Often the strategy of the hole is created with the green’s design as the starting point. Here, each green features a range of pin placements that will be either hard, medium or easy. There is noticeable movement in the greens, but the surface areas are large enough to accommodate that movement. As with the fairways, it is about being in the right place on the green to give yourself the best chance of a good score.” The layout, which is over 7,500 yards from the back tees, takes golfers through three distinct areas, with the first four holes characterised by desert, holes five to twelve among trees, and the remainder traversing around a water storage lake to the clubhouse at the centre of the course. “On the playing side at Rumanza, we wanted to create an interesting, strategic and memorable golfing experience,” said Haggar. “Once we had scraped off the top surface of material on this very f lat site, we found pure sand. That moved us towards creating something of an inland links-style golf course. New Faldo course opens in Pakistan Photo: Rumanza Golf Club Rumanza layout takes golfers through three distinct areas, characterised by desert, trees and water
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