Golf in Cebu Island Philippines

Senior Golfer Posts: 386 Join date: 2009-08-08

Hi, anyone played golf in Cebu Island before? Any good golf resorts to recommend? What else I need to take note when playing in Cebu island? I'm gg there in early March for 4D3N.

Many thanks in advance!

Subject: Re: Golf in Cebu Island Philippines Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:31 pm

Hey,

I don't live in Cebu but will be playing in Cebu next month.

Here are some of the golf courses in Cebu which you can play, they are as follows:

#1) Cebu Country Club.... built in 1928
Fone # 63-32 231 0345

#2) Club Filipino Inc. De Cebu...
fone # 63-32 231-1666
unaccompanied guest can play here for 2k weekday/ 2.5k week end

#3) Mactan Coral Golf Club

#4) Verdemer Golf Club
website is http://www.casadelmar.biz
http://www.casadelmar-golfresort.com

All four (4) golf courses are open for walk-in guest

Junior Golfer Posts: 110 Join date: 2009-12-07

Dont forget to buy mango back. Cheap and good!

Senior Golfer Posts: 386 Join date: 2009-08-08

Hi Hybrid tks a lot!

Bro Edgarki, nice reminder!

Junior Golfer Posts: 202 Join date: 2009-06-23

I just came back from Cebu 2 months ago. Best course in Cebu is Alta Vista, but it's a private club so you ned member to sign you in. You can try and check with them to see if they have visitors rate.

The other courses are no where near Alta Vista in terms of design/challenge and course conditions.

Subject: Re: Golf in Cebu Island Philippines Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:10 pm

freedrop wrote:

I just came back from Cebu 2 months ago. Best course in Cebu is Alta Vista, but it's a private club so you ned member to sign you in. You can try and check with them to see if they have visitors rate.

The other courses are no where near Alta Vista in terms of design/challenge and course conditions.

True Alta Vista is the best golf course in Cebu, but its private.
Unless you know a member..

Second to Alta Vista would be Cebu Country Club.

The golf courses I mentioned are opened for walk-in guest.

Cheapest airline to Cebu woiuld be Cebu Pacific Airways.

Subject: Re: Golf in Cebu Island Philippines Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:11 pm

I will be playing next month at Alta Vista, and will post pictures here.

Senior Golfer Posts: 386 Join date: 2009-08-08

freedrop wrote:

I just came back from Cebu 2 months ago. Best course in Cebu is Alta Vista, but it's a private club so you ned member to sign you in. You can try and check with them to see if they have visitors rate.

The other courses are no where near Alta Vista in terms of design/challenge and course conditions.

Hello bro freedrop! it seems like you are going ard the world playing golf...haha.

I'm gg to Alta Vista and Cebu CC for golf.

Senior Golfer Posts: 386 Join date: 2009-08-08

HyBriD wrote:

I will be playing next month at Alta Vista, and will post pictures here.

Bro when u gg?

Subject: Re: Golf in Cebu Island Philippines Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:11 pm

will be in Cebu on the 20th of this month.
And will be playing @ Alta Vista
then at Cebu Royal Mactan, a public golf course on sunday

Junior Golfer Posts: 202 Join date: 2009-06-23

Seiko wrote:

freedrop wrote:

I just came back from Cebu 2 months ago. Best course in Cebu is Alta Vista, but it's a private club so you ned member to sign you in. You can try and check with them to see if they have visitors rate.

The other courses are no where near Alta Vista in terms of design/challenge and course conditions.

Hello bro freedrop! it seems like you are going ard the world playing golf...haha.

I'm gg to Alta Vista and Cebu CC for golf.

Yes I have played around the world and am still travelling for golf. Except for South America, I have played in all the continents. My record shows that I have played close to 400 courses around the world.

You shd bring more balls for Alta Vista, there are a few devil's holes with extremely tight fairways, and a couple of them are teed off from 20-30m high elevation. Watch what your local partner use to tee off because the elevation is so high that you can be misled by the distance. But the view is really fantastic.

Mactan will be a disappointment. It's a cheap public course but a very lousy one, and when I played it, a few of the greens were temporary so no fun. The fairways are flat, short, cow grass, with medium high trees lining them. Greens are small and slow.

Subject: Re: Golf in Cebu Island Philippines Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:13 pm

Thanks for the tip freedrop.
I hope I can play well because my Cebu golf buddy is a single hdcper.

Subject: Re: Golf in Cebu Island Philippines Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:45 am

i played at Alta Vista and Cebu CC in Dec 2009

Alta Vista:

- Call them: they take walk in guest on weekdays.
- Caddies are very so-so
- Windy course
- Good fun with ravines and sheer drops to fairways from tee box. you better be able to drive the ball well
- Course is practically carved out of the mountain side/slope
- Good view of Cebu City

Cebu CC:

- Members only, so you better call them to book tee time. certain restrictions on weekends (no 2 ball, etc)
- Old style course, nothing very challenging
- Guest locker room is the total pits. 0.5 out of 10 marks.
- you will get very experienced caddies there if you are a non-member... because you will be paying a premium to play esp on weekends!
- All in all, if i ever go back to Cebu, i may play at Alta Vista but probably never at Cebu CC

I think golfing in Thailand is best in SE Asia.

Subject: Re: Golf in Cebu Island Philippines Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:33 pm

Hey,

I just wanna share this to everyone.

If you want to try Golfing at Cebu City

you can try contacting Mr. Ricky Paul Tio
Cebu Holiday Tours & Travels
email add is:cebu_holiday@globelines.com.ph
ricky_cebuholiday@yahoo.com

Ricky is a Filipino-Chinese who can speak Hokkian very well, and can arranged your golfing requirements

My wife and I wasnt able to play @ Alta Vista becoz they had close course tournament.
And my good buddy is competing. Too Bad.

And so we tried playing at Mactan Island golf club (formerly known as Mactan Coral Golf Club )

the course is located inside Cebu Air Force military base camp.
the fairway, as freedrop said, is cow grass, very plain, but windy specially when the Big planes lands on the runway.

For me, it was a nice experience playing there. Not much of a challenge but its a long fairway. Surely, this is a test of skills on "short game" becoz the greens are small.

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Junior Golfer Posts: 206 Join date: 2009-06-19 Age: 33

Hi, may i check with u what are the greenfees like playin in cebu? is accommodation/makan expensive there?