TopOfTheFlop
Head Pro
Evening gents,
So we're getting our house renovated at the moment and it's a bit of a building site but we hung in over the last 5 weeks and with home straight in site I took my pregnant wife on holiday to the Seychelles.
She booked the trip but with her wonderful vision she booked us into the Lemuria resort in Praslin which is a slightly smaller island than the main island in the Seychelles Mahe.
The good news about the Lemuria was that it is the only 18 hole Championship golf course on all of the 105 islands.
Wife is definitely in the good books!!
The golf was free for the round and the only supplement was the golf cart which worked out at £30 per round.
I played every other day and each time got out at 7am when the weather wasn't so hot, a cool 25 degrees was perfect and with no one else on the course it was truly magnificent.
The first 12 holes are on the hotel side of the mountain and are relatively flat and each hole winds it's way through the tropics with real flow and beauty. Quite a short course, totalling 6000 yards from the tips.
On reaching the 13th you start to go up over the mountain.
The first picture is the tee box hitting out towards the uphill again 14th.... at the end of that hole you stay up there and climb a small rocky stairwell to play the 15th par 3 which is 155yds with a 200ft drop onto a green. Probably the only time i'll play a wedge at that distance.
The beach and ocean to the left is 'Anse Georgette' a place of absolute beauty. Left the cart down the bottom at the green and took off for half hour to enjoy the empty beach...
The last picture is the tee box onto the par 5 18th taking you back to the resort, a difficult fairway to hit from such a high tee position.
Truly fantastic golf and a great resort. If you ever thought being out here in the sticks would be boring I can assure you if you get to stay here there's no better place to play early morning golf....
Now to get back to blighty and enjoy this sun you've all been having today!!!
So we're getting our house renovated at the moment and it's a bit of a building site but we hung in over the last 5 weeks and with home straight in site I took my pregnant wife on holiday to the Seychelles.
She booked the trip but with her wonderful vision she booked us into the Lemuria resort in Praslin which is a slightly smaller island than the main island in the Seychelles Mahe.
The good news about the Lemuria was that it is the only 18 hole Championship golf course on all of the 105 islands.
Wife is definitely in the good books!!
The golf was free for the round and the only supplement was the golf cart which worked out at £30 per round.
I played every other day and each time got out at 7am when the weather wasn't so hot, a cool 25 degrees was perfect and with no one else on the course it was truly magnificent.
The first 12 holes are on the hotel side of the mountain and are relatively flat and each hole winds it's way through the tropics with real flow and beauty. Quite a short course, totalling 6000 yards from the tips.
On reaching the 13th you start to go up over the mountain.
The first picture is the tee box hitting out towards the uphill again 14th.... at the end of that hole you stay up there and climb a small rocky stairwell to play the 15th par 3 which is 155yds with a 200ft drop onto a green. Probably the only time i'll play a wedge at that distance.
The beach and ocean to the left is 'Anse Georgette' a place of absolute beauty. Left the cart down the bottom at the green and took off for half hour to enjoy the empty beach...
The last picture is the tee box onto the par 5 18th taking you back to the resort, a difficult fairway to hit from such a high tee position.
Truly fantastic golf and a great resort. If you ever thought being out here in the sticks would be boring I can assure you if you get to stay here there's no better place to play early morning golf....
Now to get back to blighty and enjoy this sun you've all been having today!!!
