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| Although the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club has hosted just two of the sixteen Dubai Desert Classics staged so far, the city-based club is also a popular venue for tourists and is a landmark in this bustling metropolis.
Situated in the heart of the city on the shores of the creek, Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club has recently undergone a major redevelopment, transforming it into a true golfers’ paradise. The club’s 18-hole, par 71 course rolls 6,857 undulating yards along well-groomed fairways lined with date and coconut palms, attractive water hazards and shrubbery that lend a distinctly tropical air. The course boasts a new front nine, re-designed by Thomas Björn, providing an even greater challenge for residents and tourists alike.
There is also a new nine-hole Par 3 course, a hi-tech studio, a floodlit driving range, and extensive short game practice facilities.
The championship standard golf course is the centrepiece of a resort that now incorporates the luxury 225-bedroom Park Hyatt Dubai, 92 four-bedroom executive villas, a 121-berth marina, yacht club, golf clubhouse, restaurants, gym and leisure swimming pool. |
| Designed by Desmond Muirhead and Colin Montgomerie, The Montgomerie is another five-star course enjoying growing popularity with overseas visitors. It embraces the traditions of a Scottish links course making it a unique golfing experience in this part of the world. One hole which always provokes comment is the par-3 thirteenth which is not only designed in the shape of the UAE but also lays claim to being the largest single golfing green in the world. At 58,000 sq ft, it is the size of nine greens combined. |
Dubai Festival City sees a golf course within a residential community. Just two miles from Dubai International Airport, the Al Badia Golf Resort, designed by Robert Trent Jones II LLC, has no less than eleven lakes of varying sizes and several smaller streams, all feeding water down to Dubai Creek. 'Rivers of Sand' have also being created to cast contrasting shadows, which fall across the course as the sunsets. The clubhouse is currently under construction.
The Al Badia clubhouse and driving range will open in early 2006. In the interim a beautifully appointed six bedroom golf villa offers a boutique meeting place complete with executive facilities and exceptional service. Four Seasons has been awarded the resort’s management contract. |
Nad Al Sheba Club is a 6,630-yard, par 71, 18-hole golf course, which famously provides a warm welcome to all visitors. Sharing the site with the world famous Nad Al Sheba Racecourse, home to The Dubai World Cup (the world’s richest horse race), the front nine of the golf course meanders around the outside of the racecourse and the challenging back nine is laid out inside the racecourse perimeter.
The accurate golfer is rewarded with lush, rolling fairways and gently undulating greens, but wayward golfers may need to watch out for the nine course lakes and deep pot bunkers. Moreover, the course presents an additional experience for golfers under floodlights and the cool, Arabian night sky. Nad Al Sheba Club was the first fully floodlit 18-hole course in the Middle East region, and golf can be enjoyed until midnight, every night of the year. |
| Venue of the PGA-sanctioned European Tour event, the Dubai Desert Classic. The signature clubhouse at the Emirates Golf Club – modelled like Bedouin tents – remains the most eye-catching in the region, while the original 7,185 yard, par-72 Majlis course has been complemented for the past eight years by a second par-72 challenge, the 7,100-yard Wadi course. Both combine the natural rolling desert terrain for a serious test of golf. |
| The Al Badia Golf Resort. |
| Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club. |
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