{"id":986,"date":"2019-02-13T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T10:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:11:37","slug":"best-golf-courses-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/best-golf-courses-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10: Best Golf Courses in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two of the best European Tour events take place at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/golf-courses\/dubai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">golf courses in Dubai<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which are comparable to the very best in the world, both by way of challenge in layout and course conditions that top events warrant \u2013 the Jumeirah Earth Course and the Emirates Majlis course. But the quality of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/destination\/dubai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">golf in Dubai<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> doesn\u2019t end there &#8211; in fact it just about makes a beginning. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a look at the top 10 golf courses in Dubai, which is now an established premium golf destination, and getting increasingly popular by the day, even if it costs a few extra bucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>Dubai Creek Golf &amp; Yacht Club<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0One of the torchbearers for the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">burgeoning golf in Dubai, Dubai Creek Golf Club, as is easy to guess,is set alongside the Dubai Creek. Mint conditions on the course that features exquisite fairways and challenge in the form of immaculate bunker positioning, make golfers want to return here.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>Emirates Golf Club \u2013 Majlis Course<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vast sandy wastes, a reflection <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the desert landscape, is the overarching theme in the design of this modern-day classic golf course in Dubai, which hosts the Desert Classic each year. But it is not just that which makes this a favorite amongst many tour professionals and amateurs alike. The perilous approaches to the greens, the greens themselves and the imagination by the designer with respect to possible pin positions add up to a thrilling experience, hard to beat.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>Jumeirah Golf Estates \u2013 Earth Course<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1749\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinmurraygolfphotography.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1749 size-full\" title=\"JUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATES - EARTH COURSE, DUBAI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Webp.net-compress-image.jpg\" alt=\"JUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATES - EARTH COURSE, DUBAI\" width=\"770\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Webp.net-compress-image.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Webp.net-compress-image-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Webp.net-compress-image-768x349.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit : www.kevinmurraygolfphotography.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being Host to the DP World Tour is by itself a testimony to the course conditions and challenge on offer at one of the best golf courses in Dubai. Play here to experience first-hand what the best players on the European Tour experience each year in the final event of the Race to Dubai.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>Trump International Golf Club<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2857 size-full\" title=\"TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GOLF CLUB, DUBAI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TRUMP-INTERNATIONAL-COLF-CLUB-1.jpg\" alt=\"TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GOLF CLUB, DUBAI\" width=\"770\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TRUMP-INTERNATIONAL-COLF-CLUB-1.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TRUMP-INTERNATIONAL-COLF-CLUB-1-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TRUMP-INTERNATIONAL-COLF-CLUB-1-768x349.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the newest entrants to the Dubai golf landscape, this is a true beauty &#8211; as classical links as it can be, except that the purists would never allow a golf course in Dubai to be called a links course.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>Jumeirah Golf Estates \u2013 Fire Course<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1751\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinmurraygolfphotography.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1751 size-full\" title=\"JUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATES - FIRE COURSE, DUBAI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/JUMERIAH-FIRE-COURSE.jpg\" alt=\"JUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATES - FIRE COURSE, DUBAI\" width=\"770\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/JUMERIAH-FIRE-COURSE.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/JUMERIAH-FIRE-COURSE-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/JUMERIAH-FIRE-COURSE-768x349.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit : www.kevinmurraygolfphotography.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, a Greg Norman design just like its more illustrious sibling \u2013 the Earth Course, the Fire Course is by no means a walk in the park. The undulating layout puts several doubts in your mind about club selection and going straight for the flag has its own perils.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>Emirates Golf Club \u2013 Faldo Course<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sir Nick Faldo designed this course for the Emirates Golf Club, which was already b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">oasting the Majlis course. Opened in 1996, the emphasis here is clearly on course management, especially navigating around the bunkers and the lakes which are almost always in play.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>The Address Montgomerie<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2861\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinmurraygolfphotography.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2861 size-full\" title=\"ADDRESS MONTGOMERIE GOLF CLUB, DUBAI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Address-Montgomerie-Golf-Club-Dubai-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"ADDRESS MONTGOMERIE GOLF CLUB, DUBAI\" width=\"770\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Address-Montgomerie-Golf-Club-Dubai-1-1.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Address-Montgomerie-Golf-Club-Dubai-1-1-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Address-Montgomerie-Golf-Club-Dubai-1-1-768x349.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit : www.kevinmurraygolfphotography.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Designed by Colin Montgomerie in association with Desmond Muirhead, the Address is set up to be a perfect complement to a posh community \u201cEmirates Hills\u201d that it forms part of. Another example of premium golfing in Dubai.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>Arabian Ranches Golf Club<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is yet another links style golf course in Dubai that is a classic example of fertile imagination that has put a barren wasteland landscape to productive use. Ian Baker-Finch has put together a challenging experience that you may well call \u201cArabian\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>The Els Club<\/strong>: <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of the enormous Dubai Sports City, the golf course designed by the Big Easy, Ernie Els is another example of no effort being spared to bring top-end facilities to Dubai. The relatively flat topography along with the bunkering has been inspired by \u201csurprise-surprise\u201d &#8211; the links golf courses of UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #008000;\"><strong>Dubai Hills Golf Club<\/strong>: <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new entrant to the golf scene in Dubai, the 18 hole championship golf course provides challenges to golfers of all abilities with strategic play being the theme. Splendid views of the Dubai skyline, in particular of the Burj-Khalifa make for iconic golfing in Dubai.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the best European Tour events take place at golf courses in Dubai which are comparable to the very best in the world, both by way of challenge in layout and course conditions that top events warrant \u2013 the Jumeirah Earth Course and the Emirates Majlis course. But the quality of golf in Dubai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf-courses","tag-dubai-abu-dhabi","has-thumb"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golftripz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}