The Lanang Golf & Country Club is located in the heart of Davao City and a few minutes away from the Davao International Airport. It is an 18-hole; par 72 layouts sprawled on a 40 hectares area punctuated by pillars of 50-year-old coconut trees. While shortish, Lanang is actually longer because you don’t get much roll at this course. The fairways and greens are lush through most of the years since water is no problem. The high water level has made maintenance easier. Watering in summer is only for the greens, through a system contrived with underground pipes from the ponds pump by a mobile tractor. Most of the holes in the coconut lined first nine have much water situation to content with. The second nine is elegantly intertwined with the story of the famous giant ipil-ipil, propagated in Davao a few years ago. These giant trees have afforded the challenge to the golfer, compounded with many water hazards. Doglegs are the order of both rounds in this course, and rarely would one find straight shots on the long holes. The greens are small but well-bunkered. Originally planted to Tifton 328, these have shown adverse conditions occasioned by too much water and change to native Korean grass was in progress when Lanang survey was made.