Kikuyu Golf Project - Golf Lessons, Golf Tournaments, and Golf News

This is what Kikuyu Golf was looking for in their logo design

We want to give golfers an immersive golf experience. The Kikuyu Golf Experience will give golfers access to a digital magazine published six times per year, tournaments to play in, and instruction.

So, why is this a grass worth talking about? Because it’s different than the Bermuda, bentgrass, zoysia and Kentucky bluegrass that you’ll see at most PGA Tour venues. Kikuyu is a spongy turf, and it has an uncanny ability to stop balls dead in their tracks. On other grasses, a fairway-wood approach that lands just short of the green could well bound through the putting surface, into a bunker or rough. With Kikuyu, it could well bounce one yard forward before stopping completely. Bump-and-runs around the greens are virtually impossible; chips have to land on the putting surfaces, which feature a different (and yet equally polarizing) grass in Poa annua. We’ll save the Poa conversation for another time.

As far as the rough goes, Kikuyu giveth, and Kikuyu taketh away. It’s … Read more