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The Maldives isn’t known as a golfing destination, and for good reason. Asia’s smallest country by land mass is fractured into some 1,200 smithereens of islands amid the Indian Ocean, most with barely space to swing a cat, let alone a club.
Not so at Jawakara, Maldives, a relative giant of a resort that opened in October 2023, boasting a nine-hole golf course, one of just a handful in the entire archipelago. Situated on the southern end of the resort’s biggest island (there are two), the course is more pitch-and-putt than…