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Holes 18
Type Private
Par N/A
Length N/A
Slope N/A
Rating N/A

Course Details

Year Built 1934
Golf Season Year round

Practice/Instruction

Caddies Yes

Policies

Walking Allowed Yes

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A rather colorful course hazard rule

My review is historical and anecdotal, though accurate. The software for entering my experience does not allow for such a retrospective comment. As a young teenager, our family was stationed in Lubumbashi in the mid-late 1960s, when/where my father served as U.S. Consul to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (aka Zaire). At that time, the Golf Club of Lubumbashi (formerly known as Elisabethville) was the social center for Belgian expats, diplomats from many nations and some senior Congolese dignitaries. The second hole - depicted in the third photo of this golf pass slideshow - featured a wide, elevated green overlooking a large lake with deep sand bunkers on two sides of it. Occasionally, a large snake, often yellow-colored, would emerge from the water and bask in the hot sun on that green, causing some concern for golfers whose approach shots had landed near to it. The scorecard explained what to do: “a player has the right to remove and place his/her ball at a distance of up to two meters from any coiled snake, but no closer to the hole, without a penalty stroke.” Inevitably, the barefoot caddies would attack the snake with golf irons, chase and when possible, kill it in the rough. Not sure if this natural hazard is as commonplace on the Club’s course now as it was then!

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