Djerba Golf
18 holes PAR 73
Djerba Golf
18 holes PAR 73
A "Caddie the Golf Course Finder" feature. Photo's copyright © March 1996, Enno Brands.
This is your palm-tree golfcourse, bathing in the morning sun. I was very early this day,
so the shadows are very long. The colours are still rather hazy, and are slightly off now
and then because of the low sun.
Here you can see that the grass is actually green. Take your proper club and land
the ball on the green, if you can.
I was so early on the course that the green-keepers had not been able to remove all
those mole-hills made during the night yet. It's a daily job here. And see how many
there are. They will be removed from the greens first. In the fairway, you are
as always allowed to take relieve from these animals' activities.
Make sure that there is nothing of the kind in the direction of your ball's flight.
You'll hit them more often than you might expect!
This fairway was quite OK, and you best stay on it (trouble at the left-side),
but the green was closed for the first week when I played here as you can see,
with the flag moved to something like a winter-green.
Go up the hill and then to the left for the green which was actually greener
than it looks on this second photo.
In front is one of those old water-wells, no longer is use. The water to keep
the course green is de-salted sea-water. Hole 6 goes a little left and then right.
The green is surrounded by bunkers.
The currently dry lake in the front is not too difficult to get over,
but you must avoid the big bunker at the other side.
This was the second green closed for repair. The lake in front is filled
with water from the de-salting installation at the back of this hole.
Back to the club-house for the last hole with lots of sand bunkers.
The first hole leading into the more sandy area of the course. This one
is still south of the road, the next holes are across the road at the sea-side.
When photographed, this hole 11 was almost ready to be played again.
That's why you don't see a flag on the green. The same was true for hole 17.
Instead, the first and last hole of the executive course were used
to provide for a complete set of 18 holes.
At hole 12 you can see some of the damage done by the winter flooding.
The grass was slowly recovering, leaving many patches of difficult sandy quality.
On hole 13 especially, the middle section was difficult to play. Often,
you would have to hit the ball from the hard and wet sand, with little
grass to elevate the ball. At least the moles have come back here.
Hole 14 also had suffered and does not look very nice here. There will
always be sand on this hole, especially in the duny area at the left,
but not where the fairway is supposed to be.
From hole 15, the next two holes are even closer to the sea, but in a
higher area, so they are allright. This PAR3 was actually my favorite hole.
Once I managed to land the ball very close to the cup and made a birdie.
Hole 16 goes all along the sea-shore with dunes and little lakes. But they
will not bother you if you manage to stay on course.
Hole 17 still had a badly damaged section in the middle, but it was well
on it's way to full recovery. I was able to play it the next week.
So here it was not yet in use, as you can see missing the flag.
Hole 18 looks easy enough, but very much depending on the pin position.
If behind the bunker, you may have some trouble.
