Scarlett
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KAEC is home to the Royal Greens Golf Club. A course built in the desert and home to various professional tournaments from the Ladies European Tour to LIV Golf.
It’s all quite over the top and designed in an American country club style.
Excellent facilities and an enjoyable and challenging course. It goes without saying that it’s expensive too: at about $250 a round. All that grass isn’t going to grow itself!
At least this par 3 used waste areas to effect.
The back nine holes had floodlight towers along each hole so that golf could continue into the evening, or when it was cooler during the hotter months of the year. It was also where the course finally had two holes near to the Red Sea. I think they missed a trick by not incorporating more of the seaside into the design.
This par three has the green on a form of natural rock ledge hard against the water. An expansive new (planned opening in 2026) Rixos all-inclusive resort is being finished in the background.
This 18th hole claimed my golf ball both times I played it. The first time was trying to be too cute with my approach and taking on the sucker pin close by the water. The second time I was much smarter and dumped my approach in the bunker. Then hit out of the sand with too much power and watched my ball roll across the green, past the flag and disappear down the closely mown slope, never to be seen again… c’est la vie.
Golf in
89/199 countries completed.
(I’ve had to increase the number of countries with golf as, by all reports, Afghanistan does actually still have a course - so I’ve added them back onto my list…)
It’s all quite over the top and designed in an American country club style.
Excellent facilities and an enjoyable and challenging course. It goes without saying that it’s expensive too: at about $250 a round. All that grass isn’t going to grow itself!
At least this par 3 used waste areas to effect.
The back nine holes had floodlight towers along each hole so that golf could continue into the evening, or when it was cooler during the hotter months of the year. It was also where the course finally had two holes near to the Red Sea. I think they missed a trick by not incorporating more of the seaside into the design.
This par three has the green on a form of natural rock ledge hard against the water. An expansive new (planned opening in 2026) Rixos all-inclusive resort is being finished in the background.
This 18th hole claimed my golf ball both times I played it. The first time was trying to be too cute with my approach and taking on the sucker pin close by the water. The second time I was much smarter and dumped my approach in the bunker. Then hit out of the sand with too much power and watched my ball roll across the green, past the flag and disappear down the closely mown slope, never to be seen again… c’est la vie.
Golf in
89/199 countries completed.
(I’ve had to increase the number of countries with golf as, by all reports, Afghanistan does actually still have a course - so I’ve added them back onto my list…)
