KARAWANG is an industrial town outside Jakarta located between Bogor and Bandung. It has three golf courses, Lotus Lakes GC, Sedana GC (now known as Palm Spring GC) and Jababeka GC, all three equally nice and challenging. We stayed at Karawang, the Swissbellin Hotel is in town and has adequate facilities for golfers. The breakfast spread is acceptable and only 20 minutes to golf courses.
Normally Lotus Lakes GC will be the first stop and Palm Spring GC on the second day. We would play Jababeka GC on the third day as the course is located nearer to Jakarta. The reason being golfers would spend the third night in Jakarta before flying home the next day..The choice hotels would be somewhere in Gajah Mada and Hayam Wuruk area where golfers could find halal restaurants, fruit markets and shopping malls nearby.
From Jakarta airport to Karawang, the trip would take about an hour if traffic is normal and since we arrived in the morning, the journey was quite pleasant. We had three flights of golfers, the stronger ones played with each other.
During the game, these caddies borrowed my HP and they have a field day selfie when they could and I played golf.
There are not many rumah makan in Karawang being a small town but we managed to visit the better ones and when time is constrained just have our meals at the clubhouse albeit the price is 60% higher than normal restaurants.
Different course with different caddy but they are all very nice and dedicated to their job, after all not many foreigners play golf in Karawang.
Playing all three days with with good friend Aziz who plays 22 hcp and I have to give him 4 strokes advantage each and every round.
One of my favourite Indonesian meal is Bebek goreng cabe ijo, at the clubhouse it cost about rph 90,000 as opposed to normal price of rph 35,000 in normal rumah makan. The price of course depends on the servings small or large portions.
Really nice course and great fairways,
The ever happy smiling faces after a good round of golf.
