Vikla Golf & Country Club

Overview: Vikla Golf & Country Club is an 18-hole, par-69 course in Vikla Village near Kellaki in Limassol District. The published scorecard lists 4,762 yards from the yellow tees, while the club's current site places the course in an olive-growing landscape and asks players to arrange a tee time directly. The route is classified as parkland by current course data. Its appeal is the setting: a relatively compact mountain course whose fairways move through trees and rolling ground, with the abandoned village of Vikla close to the course perimeter. The character is informal and locally rooted rather than resort-styled.

History: The club's own history says founder Robin Houry bought the land as an olive plantation after deciding Cyprus needed a public golf course. The project was conceived in 1990 and work began with limited funding, tractors, bulldozers and a gradual build-out. Before finished greens existed, people were invited to play bare fairways, and the course then improved and expanded over time. The account does not give a definitive opening date for the current 18-hole routing, so none is stored. It does establish the course's unusual path from agricultural land to a functioning golf club, and its continuing affiliation with the Cyprus Golf Federation and EGA rating system.

Did You Know? Vikla takes its name from the abandoned settlement beside the course. The club records that the last occupant, the village mayor, left around 1980, after which time earthquakes and a bush fire contributed to the collapse of many stone houses. The remains are part of the round's visual context, giving the course a direct connection to the local settlement history rather than an invented theme.