Best Golf Courses in the United Arab Emirates
5 ranked courses in United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates has five clubs in this guide, four in Dubai and one in Abu Dhabi. Emirates Golf Club's Majlis Course, a Karl Litten par 72 that opened in 1988, was the first grass course built in the Middle East. Its clubhouse is modeled on Bedouin tents, and it first staged the Dubai Desert Classic in 1989. Jumeirah Golf Estates is built around Greg Norman's Earth Course, a par 72 of more than 7,600 yards with 102 bunkers that opened in 2009 to stage the season-ending tournament of the Race to Dubai, now the DP World Tour Championship. A stream runs along its par-5 18th, and a second 18-hole course, the Fire Course, shares the estate. The Els Club Dubai, in Dubai Sports City, is Ernie Els's 2008 desert links of 7,538 yards, with sandy waste areas, native grasses and wide fairways. Trump International Golf Club Dubai, in the DAMAC Hills development, is a par-71 desert course by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, routed around a deep gorge, with the back nine and a nine-hole par-3 course under floodlights. In Abu Dhabi, Kyle Phillips's Yas Links opened on Yas Island in 2010. It is a par 72 of 7,450 yards with deep sod-faced bunkers and a back nine close to the Arabian Gulf shoreline, and it is the home of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
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Top 5 Best Golf Courses in United Arab Emirates
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About Golf Courses in United Arab Emirates
The cooler months from late autumn through spring suit a round best; in summer, early tee times or the floodlit holes at Trump International are the practical choice. The Els Club takes online bookings, Trump International books tee times by phone, and the Majlis asks visitors for a valid handicap certificate. When booking at Jumeirah Golf Estates, confirm whether the tee time is on the Earth or the Fire Course. Yas Links also requires a handicap certificate and advance booking, and it is about 30 minutes from central Abu Dhabi and 45 minutes to an hour from Dubai.
- Ranked courses
- 5
- Course styles
- desert 3 · links 1 · parkland 1
- Access
- semi-private 3 · resort 2
- Opened
- 1988–2010
- Playable without membership
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