Samarahan Country Club

Overview: Samarahan Country Club sits beside the UNIMAS campus on the Kuching-Samarahan Expressway, about 10 kilometres from Kuching City South. Its 18-hole course combines a manicured Garden nine with a Jungle nine that occupies old swamp forest. Current Sarawak golf facts list Ted Parslow as designer, par 72 and 6,125 metres, approximately 6,701 yards. Fine-textured Zoysia fairways, strategic bunkering and water hazards give the flat-to-undulating setting a considered playing structure.

History: The club's present website describes the Kota Samarahan location and current 18-hole operation, but does not state a separate opening year for this exact course, so year_opened remains null. Its history sits within Kuching's wider golf development, with the course built beside UNIMAS after the former Sarawak Club golf site in the city was returned to the state. That distinction matters because the present Samarahan routing is not the old city course under a new name.

Did You Know? The ninth and eighteenth holes share one massive double green wrapped around a large water hazard. It is an unusual piece of course architecture and gives the two finishing points a visual relationship that most 18-hole layouts do not have. The club also says the Jungle nine was once occupied by crocodiles, a detail that helps explain the course's name and its swamp-forest setting without turning wildlife into a generic marketing claim.