Victoria Golf Links at Digana

The newest addition to the island's golf courses is the Victoria Golf Course. Located on a 207 hectare site with a 8 km waterfront it overlooks the panoramic Victoria Reservoir.

Victoria Golf & Country Resort Sri Lanka: This course is 6'190 m long (par 73) a championship golf course designed by Donald Steel and inaugurated early in 1999. The fairways are rather narrow in a hilly country side. Stately trees and avenues of coconuts lend the course an immediate air maturity. Impressive natural outcrops of rocks are a distinctive feature and indeed a hazard of the course.

Describing the Victoria Golf Course Golf Architect, Donald Steel says "Some golf courses have a splendid undulating terrain over which the holes are routed. Some golf courses have a scenic back drop of hills and lakes which excite the senses. However the Victoria Golf Course near Kandy is blessed with both attributes."

One of the most exhilarating and difficult holes at Victoria is the 473 yards Par 4, Seventh. The drive from an elevated tee call for distance, accuracy and nerves of steel, if the player is to have a chance of reaching the green in two.

Measuring 6879 yards at its full Championship length, Victoria's Par 73 layout has four Par 5 holes of which three are over 500 yards long. There are four excellent Par 3 holes ranging from the very short, but tricky 5th of 124 yards to the testing 210 yards 13th hole, a great Par 3 by any standard.

When it opened recently, Victoria was the first new course in Sri Lanka for more than 100 years and is one of only three courses in the country.

This is an 18-link golf course in beautiful surrounding by the Victoria Dam set amidst coconut palms and tropical vegetation. It offers many services and contains a restaurant and clubhouse. Horse riding is also available along with picnic lunches.

Duration of visit: ½ day