Royal Colombo - Sri Lanka
223 Model Farm Road,
Colombo 08,
Sri Lanka
+94 1126 95431
6 km SE of downtown Colombo 
Welcome
Mahinda Perera
Dick Greenway, Martin Ebert
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Royal Colombo Golf Club was founded in 1879, achieving its royal title from King George V in 1928. The club moved to its present location in 1896 when Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, governor of the Crown Colony of Ceylon, gifted a sufficient acreage of farmland for the use of the members. The course has changed much over the years. The grounds were used by the military during World War II so a great deal of effort was required to allow play to resume when hostilities ceased with Dick Greenway, club professional from 1920 to 1968, borrowing a bulldozer to assist with the endeavours. Martin Ebert, when he was working with Donald Steel at the time, carried out an 18-month renovation project at the start of the new millennium when he rebuilt bunkers and re-layed greens with Bermuda grass. The old-fashioned routing remains the same as before, involving crossover holes, shared fairways and a railway line as a hazard. |
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Steffan Garrod
Played this course in February, the course itself is ok, pretty unique with train tracks through middle of course. Short tight course and plenty of water, don't worry if your ball goes into the water because there are number of locals that will dive into the water and retrieve your ball for a very small amount of local currency. Green fees and driving range fees for balls etc was a bit skeptic, as a foreigner you feel that they are trying to take advantage all the time.
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