Sometime on a sunny Sunday in November 2019, an old man in his 70’s stood outside his house, leaning against a stick, and telling his son, “Bring me that chair.”
He sat and started to smoke his pot while enjoying the cool breeze from a magnificent, calm, and small lake in eastern Rwanda blowing upward.
He said to his son, did you know how to play this game? I see people from across the lake hitting something with sticks? What’s that little white stuff that they hit with sticks?
The old man, a cattle keeper who lives around an hour drive from Kigali City on the shores of Lake Muhazi in Rwamagana District, Eastern Province, was enjoying the happenings at a beautiful, hidden golf club.
Falcon Golf Club has been there for over 10 years, an exciting tourist and entertaining facility less known to many, but its nine-hole golf course was inaugurated in October 2019.
Overlooking rolling hills on the other side of the lake, the facility is currently the only active and professionally built course in Rwanda, sits on the lake shores, covered with fresh green lush, beautiful flowers and tropical trees. An experience worth the hard-earned money in there.
This secret gem is now open after guidelines were released by the Ministry of Sports to resume some sporting activities, including golfing, in compliance with safety measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections.
The permitted sports activities will resume this Monday, June 8, 2020, and each facility must issue its own discipline-specific safety measures before the activities resume and inform its members.
Marketing and Events Manager Doreen Iribagiza says the facility has issued the guidelines, and golfers can now hit the course and enjoy golfing after months away due to the pandemic.
The facility is also a perfect golf destination for tourists interested in combining golf with wild safaris.
The Falcon Golf Course attests to those who have enjoyed this precious facility that it has become a favorite for golfers who want to mix the game with nature, fishing, and water sports, while enjoying the best sundowner.
With many golfers playing several golf rounds, some go watching fishing birds and exploring the secrets of nature in this special and unusual resort.
So far, the club has 80 members, mostly the Kigali rich class. The membership fee for the one-day access is US$ 650 and Rwf25.00.
