UAE | Leisure
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Top golf courses help enthusiasts have a swinging time on the green.
- Staff Report
- Published: 23:41 October 3, 2008
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- The UAE can be considered the golfer's paradise of the Middle East. The emirates are home to some of the best golf courses in the world and the numbers are growing.
Dubai: The UAE can be considered the golfer's paradise of the Middle East. The emirates are home to some of the best golf courses in the world and the numbers are growing.
While events like the Dubai Desert Classic and Abu Dhabi Golf Classic are synonymous with the game, the UAE's golfing scene thrives on the many social golfers that play the game.
Many of the top golfers in the UAE developed their skills and game playing on the many courses around the country. Most clubs offer very high standards of coaching.
Landmark clubs like the Emirates Golf Club and the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club have very popular academies that offer top quality golf classes and coaching. New clubs like The Montgomerie, Dubai, the Arabian Ranches Golf Club, Abu Dhabi Golf Club and Tower Links in Ras Al Khaimah also boast excellent coaching facilities.
The Emirates Golf Club, which hosts the PGA European Tour-sanctioned Dubai Desert Classic and Dubai Ladies Masters, boasts two of the city's finest must-see courses - The Majlis and The Faldo - as well as a nine-hole Par Three course.
Fully qualified Professional Golf Association (PGA) professionals who can assist aspiring golfers 'Every Step of the Way' staff the Emirates Golf Academy. Whether you are looking for a one-hour individual lesson or a group clinic, the academy instructors are able to cater for your needs. Selections of lesson programmes are available, or alternatively a programme can be personally tailored to suit your ability and schedule.
The Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club, voted one of the world's Top 100 Must-Play Golf Courses, is a resort that incorporates an 18-hole championship golf course, a nine-hole par three course and golf academy. In fact the Creek can stake a claim to launching the region's first and foremost golf academy. Also managed by qualified PGA instructors, who take you through every aspect of the game, the Dubai Creek Golf Academy is one of the most up-to-date in the world.
The golf academy at The Montogomerie stakes a claim to being one of the finest teaching facilities in the world.
The Arabian Ranches Golf Academy is the ideal environment to achieve the golf you may have always dreamed about playing. The Academy incorporates areas designed specifically for practising the varied skills of the game with individual practice areas.
The Abu Dhabi Golf Club's Academy also offers state-of-the art training facilities, including video analysis and personal coaching while the Tower Links Golf Club in Ras Al Khaimah caters to most of the demands of aspiring golfers.
Where to go: Popular golf clubsin the UAE
- Emirates Golf Club; Tel: (04) 380 2222; (04) 380 1555
- Golf Academy: (04) 380 1999; (04) 380 1752; Website: www.dubaigolf.com
- Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club; Phone: (04) 295 6000; (04) 295 6044
- Golf Academy : (04) 205 4666; (04) 205 4667; Website: www.dubaigolf.com
- The Montgomerie, Dubai; Tel: (04) 390 5600; Email: info@themontgomerie.ae
- Arabian Ranches Golf Club ; Tel : (04) 366 3000; Website: www.arabianranchesgolfdubai.com; E-mail : teetime@arabianranchesgolf.ae
- Abu Dhabi Golf Club ; Tel: (2) 5588990; Website: www.adgolfclub.com
- Al Ain Golf Club; Tel: (3) 7686808; E-mail: jmross@emirates.net.ae
- Tower Links Golf Club; Tel: (07) 2278553; E-mail: gconstable@towerlinks.com
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