New Dawn at New Kuta

THE KUTA TO COME

New Kuta isn’t remindful of Kapalua just because some of their holes feel similar. The pieces of real estate they occupy have something to do with it, too.
The club sits on 650 hectares of prime, bucolic property, 30 minutes south of the airport in Denpasar. That’s only a fraction of the size of the equally-pastoral Kapalua development (9,300 hectares). But soon their amenities will rival one another, as well.
In fact, the latest New Kuta project is already making noise. Literally. In February, New Kuta developer P.T. Bali Pecatu Graha (BPG) christened the beachfront-hugging Klapa, a 6,000-square-meter nightclub that instantly became Indonesia’s largest. And by June, the first of five hotels will also be taking guests. Called Le Grande Pecatu, the 60-room boutique lodge is tucked inoffensively off the ninth fairway with views of the course, the ocean and a hillside draped in coconut palms.
The rest of the hotels are in some stage of construction — and possess names of notoriety: Best Western, Kempinski and Raffles, which will oversee a suite of luxury villas on the cliffs beside Klapa.
The 4,000-square-metre clubhouse opened in January and fast became a post-round hangout thanks to Chef Gusep Gumanti’s fresh interpretation of a Balinese favorite: Lemongrass swordfish.