Built by the Japanese, and essentially targeted toward Asian golfers without an understanding of quality golf design, Templer Park Golf Club is situated close to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. It was designed by a Japanese designer who dotted the layout with lakes to add visual appeal, but his front nine is unbelievably flat and boring with holes complemented by shallow, spirit-level flat bunkering and subtle pushed up greens.

The back nine is a little better, the golf getting up into some decent hills but with daft holes like the 13th, which bends right yet features a pond on the left, and the over-shaped 14th. The falling 15th is nice enough, and the split fairway 18th is a fun betting hole - provided you can carry the ball 240 yards in the air and play it as a drive and pitch hole rather than a 400m torture test that bends around a hazard.

Templer Park has some nice outlooks and night lights make it available for evening play. There is little to recommend here.