Middle East

United Arab Emirates

Extending to 7,450 yards, Yas Links was over three years in construction and it lies across the highway from the Yas Marina car racing circuit with eight of the holes located right against the coastline.

Oman

The spectacular centrepiece of the Wave Resort project is the wonderful Greg Norman-designed Al Mouj golf complex that features both a championship 18-hole course and a floodlit 9-hole par three layout.

United Arab Emirates

Trump International Golf Club Dubai is a Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner co-design which debuted in early 2017, becoming the first new 18-hole course to open in Dubai for seven years.

United Arab Emirates

The Dubai Hills Estate is set within the Mohammad Bin Rashid City quarter of Dubai and it’s a development from the Emaar property company, which includes the Burj Khalifa building in its portfolio...

United Arab Emirates

Opened in March 2010, the Gary Player-designed course at Saadiyat Beach Golf Club is billed as the Persian Gulf’s first ocean course.

United Arab Emirates

The Earth course at Jumeirah Golf Estates was the first course to have been built specifically for a championship and then unveiled as the first tee shot was hit at that championship.

United Arab Emirates

The Els Club was the first completed venue within a multi billion dollar development at Dubai’s Sports City that now includes the world’s first purpose-built Manchester United Soccer School facility...

United Arab Emirates

The Majlis course at the Emirates Golf Club opened for play in 1988 and it was the first 18-hole grass golf course to open in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia

The Al Murooj community of the vast King Abdullah Economic City is the setting for the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club development where Dave Sampson of EGD first began to build a course in 2008.

United Arab Emirates

The Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht club grabbed considerable world-wide attention on opening in 1993 when golf in the Middle Eastern desert was in its infancy.

Qatar

The IMG Prestige-managed Education City Golf Club was designed by former Ryder Cup player and captain José María Olazábal and the team at Olazabal Design.

Jordan

Immediately to the west of the 7th-century coastal city of Aqaba, a massive residential and commercial development named Ayla has been taking shape since 2008...

United Arab Emirates

Unveiled at the end of 2015, the 18-hole layout at Al Zorah Golf Club was the first golf course to open for play in the United Arab Emirates for more than six years.

United Arab Emirates

Although only open since January 2010, the Fire layout – another Greg Norman creation at the Jumeirah Golf Estates – is more of a links-like track than its sibling the Earth course.

United Arab Emirates

Saltwater lakes, ornamental trees and palms make the setting oasis-like with lush playing surfaces, bold, strategic bunkering coupled with large greens paint the Abu Dhabi picture.

Bahrain

Now part of the luxury Riffa Views residential complex, the new Montgomerie layout at the Royal Golf Club lies within three housing estates and it will, in time, be serviced by a country club...

Qatar

Home to the Qatar Masters and designed by Peter Harradine in the mid 1990s, Doha Golf Club is located about 10 kilometres to the north of Doha, the Qatari capital.

Israel

Israel has never exactly been known as a golfing hotbed but that may be about to change with the upgrading of Caesarea, one of only two courses in the country, by none other than the legendary Pete Dye.

United Arab Emirates

The Wadi at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai was redesigned in 2006 by Nick Faldo and was later renamed the Faldo in commemoration of the six-time major winner.

United Arab Emirates

Arabian Ranches Golf Club opened in February 2004 and this was Ian Baker-Finch's first collaboration with Nicklaus Design.