Bukit Pandawa Golf & Country Club

Overview: Bukit Pandawa is an unusual 18-hole golf experience on Bali’s southern limestone coast. Every hole is a par 3, creating a par-54 round that can be completed more quickly than a conventional championship course without making the shots routine. The layout moves across a clifftop site in Kutuh among dramatic rock outcrops, terraced rice fields, waterfalls and views toward the Indian Ocean. Bob Moore and JMP Golf Design Group shaped the holes to use the site’s natural drama, with pure seashore paspalum and a choice of tee distances.

History: The course was developed as a new kind of Bali golf destination, pairing a short-format scorecard with the visual language of the island’s south-coast landscape. The operator describes it as the first course of its kind in Bali, and design references credit the JMP group and Bob Moore with the golf concept. The directory’s 18-hole label is therefore correct for the hole count, but the routing should not be described as a standard par-72 course. The available sources do not establish a safe opening year, so none is forced into the profile.

Did You Know? The official course guide identifies the 13th as a 148-yard signature hole, framed by three bunkers, curved stone walls, an ornamental tower and the Indian Ocean. That single hole captures the course’s design idea: the round is built around precise short-game decisions, but the reward is a sequence of memorable coastal settings rather than a conventional long-course score.