Hole 10
A tough start to the back nine, this par 3 will play all of its 165 meters. With the clubhouse balcony over looking your tee shot, you must carry the ball all the way to the green over thick scrub and up the hill. Just to add to the test the green is now protected by a bunker on the right side. So with no space on the right and out of bounds left, only good shots will score.

Hole 11
On the score card the easiest par 4 on the course. The newly constructed tee in the side of the hill provides some of the best views in Cyprus, the snow capped Troodos Mountains to one side and golf course the other. The tee is long and narrow and makes you play into the slope of the fairway helping any bad bounces. For the bravest golfers, driver is an option, but be careful the bunker in the right side of the green is the least of your worries with out of bounds surrounding. Using a mid to long iron the fairway bunker on the left side is your perfect aim, leaving you a short wedge to the green.

Hole 12
Probably the easiest of the par 5’s on the course, the 12th starts from a raised tee that looks down across the whole course. A good drive here is down the right hand side, filtering into the middle. The new fairway bunkers will influence the choice of 2nd shot; long hitters can make the green with two good blows. A bunker to left of the green makes down the right the safe shot. Be careful here the green is deceptively tricky.

Hole 13
Stroke index 2. The hardest hole by far on the back nine. From a slightly raised tee position, the fairway is surrounded by trees and crossed by a winding ditch. Only long hitters will consider taking on the ditch and then only when it is down wind. The fairway rises all the way to the green giving only a view of the top of the flag. When you finally reach the green you will find no bunkers but a triple tiered green making this probably the hardest on the course to read.

Hole 14 - Signature Hole
Our signature hole, newly designed by Tom Mackenzie, a winding cart path takes you across waste land to a tee built into the side of the hill. Your drive must find a fairway that is built up out of the valley and lined with traditional Cyprus stone. The wall marks the edge of the course and then of course out of bounds. To the right is a large slope planted heavily with large olive tree’s that will obstruct your view if you lose your ball to the right. A relatively short par 4 is not as easy as the scorecard suggests. The green is raised from the fairway and bunkers in the slope up to the green seem to attract your ball.

Hole 15
The last of the par 3’s. Most of the trouble here will be in your mind, you must carry a traditional Cyprus stone lined stream, then miss bunkers and olive tree’s both sides of the green and putt well on a tricky surface, the wind blows through the valley across the reservoir and makes a short shot here much more difficult than the norm.

Hole 16
The tee’s are cut into the side of the hill overlooking the 15th and 3rd greens, a fairway wood is the best option here, the stream across the fairway and down the right hand side, again will make you think of position over distance. Once in the middle of the fairway you must play up the slope to a green that is much wider than it is deep, cut into the side of the green is a deep pot bunker that always seems to push the ball away to the right side.

Hole 17
The final par 5. Two shots to the green here rarely happens, the fairway is crossed three times by streams feeding the main channel to the reservoir. To make matters worse the fairway has a double dogleg and has been cut through the middle of the old orchard attached to the monastery. Walnut, apple and cherry trees make spring time here a beautiful penultimate hole. The last of the streams runs to the right and crosses just in front of the green with two bunkers protecting the left side, so think carefully about your choice of approach shot.

Hole 18
Possibly the hardest tee shot on the course, this makes the 18th a fantastic finishing hole. The fairway slopes from left to right and is lined with disaster on both sides. On the left is the large water hazard that already caused you stress on the 9th and on the right the walnut and fig trees that surround the 17th green. A stream crosses at the 100 meters to go marker, making driver from the tee the wrong choice for most. When you eventually find the fairway it rises up to the green, which is protected by 2 right hand side pot bunkers. The green is deceptively large and not enough care with your approach could finish your round with 3 putts.

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