Kota Permai Golf & Country Club is certainly a contender for one of the best maintained and most pleasant layouts in Malaysia. Along with its attractive elevation changes, lightly tree-lined and contoured fairways, and fine array of water hazards, you will also find many round and railway-sleepered greenside bunkers. This bunkering creates a distinctive look to several holes, none more so than the signature par-4 2nd, where water dangerously flanks the left side of the fairway, then has to be crossed in front of the green. Two large sleepered bunkers look on from the back of the green, as if admiring this beautifully created and most attractive of golf holes. Golfing alongside small lakes and ponds will continue to test your nerve throughout the front nine (Hicom-nine), but this most feared of hazards is much less of a threat on the equally undulating back-nine (Gamuda-nine). Only at the long par-4 15th and tight, short par-4 16th, does water dangerously reappear, with these two handsome holes played alongside the same small lake. Care also needs to be taken with your drive at 18, especially with a pond lurking along the rightside of the fairway. Kota Permai has many nicely elevated tee boxes, with several holes played from these elevated tees back up to elevated greens. The relatively short par-5 12th and longer closing par-5 18th are two fine examples where downhill drives need to be followed by uphill approach play. Although there are plenty of largish villas around the perimeter of the course, they never feel intrusive and don't really come into play, even for those occasional wayward shots.