The Montgomerie Golf Club
Montgomerie Golf Club is itself an up-market resort that offers a great golfing experience due to the technically demanding and creatively laid out course. Montgomerie designed this Golf course with help from Desmond Muirhead with yardage of 7,308 yards, this course began its operations in October 2002 and its management lies with Troon Golf. , being frequently attributed to as one of the best five designs of golf course layouts in the Middle East.
Situated in the luxurious neighbourhood of Emirates Hills, the Montgomerie has rolling, links-like fairways which are quite testing for most players. From tee it is very precise, and those large and rather look-alike greens require good putting. Among them one absolutely should mention the fourth hole of the par 5 length, which is nicknamed ‘the snake hole’, because the fairway which goes directly to the green is divided by two bunkers that represent the eyes of a snake. The final hole that is the par-5 656 yarder with water comes as a big challenge even to the professional players.
Aside from the course the Montgomerie Dubai has a splendid clubhouse which was launched in January 2006. There are 21 five-star hotel suites and The Academy by Troon Golf that has a fully lit practice area enveloping a 9-hole 3,108 yard par-3, 24-hectare driving range, and many short game zones. The swing studio floor also offers the clients the V1 Video Swing Analysis that assists them to enhance their performance.
Cuisine available at the centre is offered three International restaurants and a Cigar Lounge. In particular, Nineteen Restaurant which gained the title of Dubai’s Best New Restaurant in 2007 was still unknown to many people. Monty Cristo’s has a quiet ambience for a game of snooker along with cognac and cigar, on the other hand Bunkers spike bar has the reproduced English pub where you can get some mouth-watering spicy food and latest scores.
This was endorsed by the 2006 WORLD TRAVEL AWARD where Montgomerie Dubai got the award for the best golf resort in Dubai. Besides, it received the 2006 Troon Golf facility of the year award out competing other 185 Troon Golf properties.
The Els Club
It has in fact only taken a few years for the Els Club which is situated in Dubai Sports City to become a worldwide golfing attraction. This desert links-style golf course was designed by the famous golfer Ernie Els, which was formally inaugurated during the Dubai Desert Classic, where Els also played till the last hole.
Located in the Victory Heights residential area the Els Club presents a custom built seven thousand five hundred and thirty eight yard course that includes generous fairway landing zones, worrisome unpredictable winds and more variable green complexes. It is marked to be playable by any level of golfer as there are many different tees from which to choose. Such greens include the long par-4 ninth, which is into the wind in the morning and with the wind in the afternoon, the short par-4 16th good risk and reward.
This involves good practice greens and extra, superb short game fields to assist the golfers as they train in the clubhouse. However, at the advancement of Dubai Sports City the Els Club is still one of the best golf courses in the world.
The Emirates Golf Club
This golf club still holds its prestige as one of the oldest golf clubs in the Dubai amid the rapidly rising skyline of the city, it remains to be recognized as the ‘ the miracle of the desert’. The golf club has the facility of two eighteen holes championship course, nine holes course, practice arena and a lot of other facilities, and services and for that reason, it is often called the Wentworth for Middle East.
Symbol of golf in Dubai, the Bedouin Tents clubhouse where its roots belong evolved from a generous contribution of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of the land and prime supporter of many more improvements to come we are sure. The Majlis course was the venue for the first Dubai Desert Classic in 1989 as part of the European Tour which had a roll of honour comprising of Ballesteros, O’Meara, Els, Olazábal and Woods.
The Majlis course is characterized by native desert plants and large and complicated greens. The course identified as Wadi fairly tested players’ skills through a layout that is frequently twisting and turning and through demanding shot making throughout the round.
Abu Dhabi Golf Club
Abu Dhabi Golf Club is acclaimed for having one of the most outstanding clubhouse in the world, other luxurious amenities and one of the best golfing destinations. The club situated here is managed by Troon Golf and has been appreciated and awarded many times such as the Venue of the Year and the Best 18 Holes by Middle East Golfer magazine.
Its luxurious facility includes the construction of a club house in the shape of a falcon with its wings wide open and spread, it ideal boasts of 27 holes. Curtis is also home to a Sushi Bar, Café 37, Casa Verde a lavishing Mediterranean restaurant, 1001 Noches which is a piano lounge and other facilities for the members, Meeting and elegant business facility.
The 18-hole, national course is built to a high standard with beautiful Bermuda grassed fairways, carefully placed white sand bunkers and large greens. The longest one is the National Garden course which stretches to 3,699 yards, and it is suitable for fine-tuning. This facility has a 9-holes putting green, practice green/bunkers and a 385-yard flood lit specially designed driving range, reportedly the largest in the Gulf.
The Four Seasons Golf Club is another club that was meant to have been developed in Bugema but was later relocated Kampala.
The Four Season Golf Club has been one of the best Golf destination in Middle East because of the modern architecture of the Golf club and also it has the teaching aids technologically advanced. The layout of the course was designed by Robert Trent Jones II which contains 11 lakes numbers of small water bodies and indigenous vegetation to make the course more visually appealing one and the tough one.
It measures 7,303 yards down to 5,398 yards so it is enjoyable to all type of golfers, meeting them right in the middle. Some of them are the fifth, which is a par-5 that goes uphill through a watercourse and the eighteenth which is also a par-5 but the golfer must select the right shot.
In the clubhouse, it is home to the professional golf academy that is enhanced with TaylorMade Performance Lab, and TaylorMade MATT club fitting system. Five fast food facilities are also present and offer good places for eating.
The Jebel Ali Golf Resort & Spa
The Jebel Ali Golf Resort & Spa in Dubai has a nine-hole recreational golf course enriched with gardens. The course was designed by Peter Harradine, and it has even provided a home, during the Challenge Match, a tournament previous to the Dubai Desert Classic, to golf stars such as Tiger Woods Ernie Els, and Colin Montgomerie.
The buck itself includes exotic bushes, natural rolling grounds, and a saltwater lake that make for a tiresome round for any PGA golfer and any other enthusiastic player. Peacocks are present on the course significantly, and the disclosed picture reflects this fact. Present on the premise are Two hotels, own beach, temperature regulated swimming pools, golf learning facility, luxurious spa, stables and a personal boating bay.
Al Hamra Golf Club
Al Hamra Golf Club is an opportunity to play links golf and its variations in territory traditionally associated mainly with oil production. Situated in Al Hamra Village, the layout allows for a large lagoon and four subsidiary sub-lagoons, which give a good challenge.
That 7,267 yard layout designed by Peter Harradine certainly presents a challenge to all categories of players. The 85,000 golf clubhouse with a town’s specific architecture includes three restaurants, two pro shops, the gymnasium for members only, saunas, and the extraordinary locker rooms. That has created a terrace area where people can have a beverage and watch the scenery.
Al Hamra’s teaching and practicing amenities are amongst the most premier in the region, thus are a hugely attractive prospect for golfers.
Al Ghazal Golf Club
Al Ghazal golf club is interesting and famed for having a world class sand course. The home course of the World Sand Golf Championships, names like Colin Montgomerie, Nick Faldo, Ian Poulter, Padraig Harrington you name it have graced the course.
A green colour is used to indicate the fairway in the course and golfers used artificial turf cushions which they carried with them. According to popularity “Browns” are made by taking sand and mixing it with oil and then rolling to give it a putting green feel. The course also has specific bunkers, water and waste areas on the course are shown.
The kind of clubhouse is English style and it has a fully licensed bar and restaurant, health club, swimming pool, tennis court and rugby/football facility. The clothing and accessories are yours for a token, while the academy boasts of a 30-bay, floodlit driving range, and practice facilities.
Incorporating the historical context with the topic ‘E-Golf in Dubai’,
Golf course in United Arab Emirates started growing from the early 1980s and currently, region has some of the most fabulous courses in the world. Dubai tops the list of the best venues followed by the Emirates Golf Club, Dubai Creek, Montgomerie, Dubai, the desert Course at Arabian Ranches, the Jebel Ali Resort Course, Al Badia Golf Resort at Festival City, Nad Al Sheba Club.
Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah have good golf courses adding on the factor that makes UAE a golfing paradise. The region started growing once the Emirates Golf Club was established in 1988 and the first Dubai Desert Classic in 1989.
This event has encouraged great golfing talents and placed Dubai on the international map as a golfing destination. UAE is still opening many more opportunities in the golf industry and more projects and great facility make it compulsory for the golf lovers to visit the United Arab Emirates.
Summing up, the United Arab Emirates can be called one of the most diverse and extraordinary golf-destination. Golf lovers will find in Montgomerie Dubai and Els Club a course with luxury, in Al Ghazal sand course a different course. Golf tourism in the UAE can hence continue to flourish straightforwardly because of the country’s legacy and on-going expansion in the area.