Club Compuestre Golf de Matzalan in Sinaloa, Matzatlan, Mexico has 9-holes designd by Percy Clifford that is really a lot of fun to play.
After playing holes 1 & 2, where the caddie disappears lugging your bag into the bushes and ransacking it; this pungent smell hits your nostrils that also has this burning-like sensation to it. As you approach the fourth tee, you see that the locals who have houses (what are essentially 2-story adobe shacks) right on the course, burn their trash or whatever, right off the side of the 4th!
Your fine at the 5th, until you take a break for a cold "Sidral' Agha" which is a delightful and refreshing carbonated apple cider. Out of respect to your caddies, you buy them one too, and then try to communicate to them that you know that they have stolen something out of your bag, and they better put it back.......
It's then back to the course, and the.........breath-taking.......6th, which has been called by my group of friends, "The Cess Pool Hole." Right off of the tee is a rather large pond, which loks to beslightly lower then normal, in evidence of the exposed banks, and literally hundreds of golf balls sitting right there on those shores! Youthink to yourself, "why are those golf balls there? Yes, it is obvious that the person that put them into play, did n't make it over, but, hundreds of them? ? ?"
You tee off, and continue this majestic walk right alongside the lake, and then it hits you.....It is in fact a cess pool, filled and unkept, and.......of course, that smell you first experienced at Club Compuestre, only stronger. I highly recommend the course not for the smells, but for the experience.
If you I had to go through it, so should you! And the funnier thing about it is I have played the course about six times!