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Golf in Egypt |
Golf in Egypt:
Egypt is rapidly picking
up the game of golf and
this is apparent in the
many glorious courses
that can be found
throughout the
country...where else can
you claim to tee off at
the foot of the Great
Pyramids, or on the
coast of the most
notorious of seas in the
Red Sea, or even by the
picturesque
Mediterranean Sea? It is
truly an ideal match.
Golf courses in Egypt:
Katameya Heights Golf
and Tennis Resort
18 holes, 6780 yards,
Par72
 With the pioneering
vision to turn the
desert sand into lush
green rolling hills,
Katameya Heights became
the first commercial
venture to combine golf
and real estate in Egypt.
It is one of the most
impressive Golf resorts
in the Middle East and
North Africa. With its
beautifully designed
golf course, its
majestic clubhouse
around the pool on the
top of the hill and its
luxurious villas,
Katameya Heights has
influenced the corporate
landscape of Cairo.
The course is a
championship design as
all Bureau’s courses
where pros are used to
play their national PGA
qualification
competitions. Each hole
is designed to test and
challenge the golfer's
skills. There are no two
holes alike and the
changes in elevation
provide for spectacular
views of the surrounding
scenery. It also
provides for challenging
stances that demand
creative shot making.
A breathtaking view from
the highest point of
Katameya Heights gives a
complete portrait of the
whole estate project. In
the distance, the
Pyramids of Giza
highlight the horizon
and can be seen from the
tee-off spot.Katameya
has also a 9-hole for
higher handicaps and all
golf facilities for
beginners. The
club-house with a large
pool and wide bars and
restaurants serving good
food is very convivial
for the 19th hole.
Mirage Golf Country
Club
18 holes, 6944 yards,
Par72
 Opened in November 1999,
under the Marriott
International management,
this course is located
at less than 15 minutes
from the airport in the
same business and
residential suburb than
Katameya. Mirage City
Golf club has been
designed by Peter
Harradine in the
Floridian style with
palm trees even cactus
around ponds but with
some hilly desert slopes
offering golfers
constant choice and
challenge with every
shot.
Due to very careful
placement of four tee
boxes, the course suits
both beginners as well
as scratch players. It
has and deserves its
reputation of excellence
not only for its design
but also for its
consistent maintenance.
Hole 12, par 3 over a
pond surrounded by a
stone wall with
vegetation and flowers
is considered as the
signature hole but some
other like hole 8 offers
spectacular view of a
narrow fairway squeezed
between water on the
right and rough or even
out of bonds on the left.
The 18th has the green
on a top of a sloppy
hill and a par is a
triumph! Mirage has a
golf academy with
Mena House Oberoi
18 holes played on 9
fairways par 68, 5250
yards, rating 66 with 2
tees.
 The Mena House Oberoi is
certainly one of the
finest, if not the
finest hotels in Egypt,
and perhaps the world.
It is the only grand
hotel we know of that
has a close view of the
Great Pyrmaids of Egypt.
The hotel itself has
great facilities,
including conference
centers, fabulous
restaurants, a casino,
tennis and swimming, and
of course, the golf
course.
The hotel has 40 acres
of jasmine scented
gardens, beautiful
arabesque furniture
inlaid with mother of
pearl, hand-crafted
mosaic tiles,
exquisitely carved
brass-bound wood doors,
original works of art
and magnificent
antiquities. And while
it has been serving
guests since 1869, it is
modern in every respect
that counts.
The golf course
overlooks the Pyramids,
and is one of the oldest
and most mature in Egypt.
Golf City
Located on the Ismaïlia
Road at 35 kms East from
Cairo, Golf City is also
a championship 18 holes
which has been designed
by the same successful
architect than Katameya
Heights, the French Yves
Bureau. This par 72
measures 6350 meters
from the black tees to
only 4714 meters from
the front tees which
tells enough about the
concern of the architect
to make it playable for
any kind of golfers.
And really it is, even
if some holes like the
9th or the 10th are more
difficult due to a water
environment but, so
spectacular, more over
for those who sip a
fresh drink sitting
quietly in a comfortable
chair at the terrace of
the club-house!In fact
the 9th is a wonderful
signature hole: superb
view point from the tee
boxes to the Cairo city
horizon and very
protected green between
water and bunkers. Par
on this hole is a
success even for low
handicap.
The Australian pro Peter
Partridge manages the
golf in a very
professional but
convivial way which is
largely appreciated by
the members as well by
visitors.
The clubhouse offers a
large range of
facilities, bars and
restaurants and the
casual "Bistro 18"
serves drinks and snacks
or full meals which are
promptly prepared (it
not the case everywhere).
Dreamland Golf &
Tennis resort
18 holes, 7205 yards,
Par72
 This nearest golf to
Cairo is located on west
side in the new
residential settlements
of the 6th of October
CityHis manager Ayman El
Faransawy pretends his
course to be the only
one with a view to the
Pyramids. It is true… on
the last 9 holes!
The course, property of
Bahagat Group which owns
also the nearby
Dreamland entertainment
Park, can be played by
golfers of all skills.
The 18 holes
championship course
meanders on the sloping
hills around lakes
bordered by palm trees.
It has also a nine holes
and a large practice
range with golf school.
The new club house is a
sort of mysterious
construction which could
have been built for
“Indiana Jones”. A 19th
green has been managed
on the surrounding rocks
to organize pitching
contest: the winner pays
the bill! Isn’t it?
Indeed!
The Pyramids Golf
complex
Par 72, 7004 yards, four
tees.
18 holes championship
course (East & West)
9 holes executive Course
(South Course)
9 holes floodlit course
(moonlight Course)
As Cairo, Alexandria has
benefited from the
British occupation the
creation of a centennial
golf course which still
exists under the same
name: Sporting Club. It
is still the only one in
the city of Alexander
the Great. Was that the
reason why an investor
decided to create a golf
complex between Cairo
and Alexandria? The
Pyramids golf complex.
But don’t believe in its
name. It is far from the
Pyramids, along the
Alexandria desert road,
at more than one hour
drive from Cairo, in the
middle of nowhere. Over
99 holes which are
planned in the full
project, four 9-holes
have been marked out (better
than designed) in the
desert nearby an
entertainment park.
East and West are easy
playground for beginners.
South called Executive
is more difficult due to
immoderate water hazards
and lengths and the
green of the last hole
is an island in a pond
surrounded by camping
and fishing huts! And
there is a floodlight 9
holes called Moonlight
course!!!
Aiming to attract people
to discover golf game is
good idea. But golf
needs real professional
designers, managers and
green keepers.
Luxor: The Royal
Valley Golf & Country
Club
18 holes, 6735 yards,
Par72
 This course has been
designed by Arthur Davis
and created at the same
time as Katameya and
Mirage in the same
spirit: turn desert sand
into lush green rolling
fairways. And the slogan
was “Tee time with
ancient Kings and
Queens”. It is located
on the East bank of the
Nile, near the Luxor
airport, in the desert
just away from the Nile
green zone.This
championship course has
narrow rolling fairways
bordered by large waste
areas of natural desert
between numerous water
hazards, and well
dispatched sand bunkers.
It is a long par 72 of
6735 yards with some
very long par 4 as holes.
But there are four tees
boxes and the forwards
positions offer an
equally enjoyable
experience for the high
handicappers as for the
low from the King Tut
tee deck.Unfortunately
the projected
development of the Royal
Valley Golf resort has
been stopped just a few
days after its opening,
by the terrorists attack
of November 1997 against
foreign tourists in the
Kings Valley.
Nowadays Egyptian
tourism is coming out
from the tunnel and the
unfortunate Luxor
managers invigorate the
golf course to bring the
players back on the
fairways; it is just a
problem of green keeping
to get the Bermuda grass
in good shape.
Anyway the course design
of Royal Valley Golf
remains of great quality
and in the centre of the
course the Nubian style
club-house is still
majestic.
Red Sea:
In the last ten years,
brand new tourist hotels
and resorts have sprung
out from the desert
sands and stones along
the coasts of the Red
Sea beginning around
Hurghada on one side and
Sharm el Sheikh on the
Sinaï side. Long sandy
beaches, blue (and not
red) sea water with
famous underwater
natural museum of corals
and marine fauna, year
round sun (rain is
exceptional) have been
the first attractions.
Nowadays golf is part of
the development at El
Gouna, Soma Bay, and tomorrow at El Soukhna
and
Sal Hashees.
Maritim Golf Resort
at Sharm el Sheikh
18 holes, 6585 yards,
Par72
Between the mythic Sinaï
mountain and Tyran
island in the Aqaba Gulf
, the Jolie Ville Golf
Resort at Sharm el
Sheikh with its18 lakes
and ponds is a stopping
point for more
than 15 different
species of migrant birds.
Not only for birds! It
is now a favourite
playground for more and
more golfers who have
decided to buy a
residence in this
paradise along the
beaches of the Red Sea.
Located near the airport
at about 5kms from the
main hotels zone, the
Bermuda grass and the
numerous palm trees lie
their green mark in the
sandy desert colour. The
Mövenpick Hotel Group
has been the instigator
of the Jolie Ville Golf
Resort designed by
Sanford Associates from
Florida (USA). They have
brought their specific
style which fits well
with the very specific
environment between
Sinaï and Red Sea.
It is a par 72
championship course
American way of 6021
meters from the black
tees with five different
boxes which make the
course playable for
golfers of any skill.
Water hazards are more
or less present on 14
holes but on three
different places on the
18th which is the
signature hole in front
of the white house of
the club. Karts are
available but walking is
very easy.
El Gouna Golf Resort
18 holes, 6902 yards,
Par72
North of Hurghada lies
the most important
Egyptian tourist resort
of El Gouna, with dozen
hotels and hundreds
guest houses, villas and
apartments. El Gouna has
its own championship
18-hole golf course
designed by Fred Couples
and Gene Bates. Under
the wise management of
Rolf Boehmer, the course
has been rated by the
German Golf Federation.
The course meanders
along and between the
internal lagoons so that
a dozen of holes are
along the water. Sea
winds blow sometimes so
hard that woods shots
are needed on long par 4
(14th) or 5 (17) to
reach (or try to) the
green in the prevailing
wind. Signature hole is
15th, dogleg right with
lagoon on the right and
a bunker in the centre
of the fairway which is
sloping down to the
lagoon… Aqua driving
range, pitch, chip &
putt, gacademy. Minimum
handicap 45. A second
course in the future
developments.
Soma Bay: The
Cascades Golf
18 holes, 6646 yards,
Par72
 At 45 kms south from
Hurghada, the Gary
Player 18 holes
championship called the
Cascades at Soma Bay, is
not only the number one
course in Egypt but also
one of the most
spectacular links
courses in the world. As
much as the famous Pete
Dye’s Teeth of the dog
at Casa de Campo in the
Dominican Republic. And
maybe more. The coast
line holes 4,5,6, 13,14,
15 are similar to Teeth
of the dog with sea tide
and winds in the cricks
but the hinterland holes
are more spectacular at
Soma Bay in the windy
desert. Its all beauty
and tranquillity.
At the Cascades Golf
Course, wide fairways
and elevated greens are
defined by the natural
rolling sand hills and
77 strategically placed
bunkers. Waste bunkers
accentuate almost every
fairway creating a
barrier between the
natural desert and the
manicured fairways. A
series of landscaped
lagoons, flowing streams
and the Red Sea coast
have been combined to
create obstacles to
challenge amateur as
well as the professional.
Holes 9 and 18 ending by
a cascade water feature
for which the course is
named.
Every Tuesday morning,
the pro manager Mr
Mansour, organizes a
par-3 challenge for all
guests with or without
handicap. Very
successful.
Definitely Soma Bay Golf
resort is all-year
sunshine golf
destination built on a
unique 10 million square
meter peninsula
surrounded on three
sides by the turquoise
blue water of the Red
Sea.
New projects:
El Soukhna: South of
Suez, El Soukhna new
tourist resort on the
Red Sea is the nearest
from Cairo (120 kms). It
takes about an hour
drive (when the brand
new highway is not
closed to tourists
access for military
exercise!!! Which causes
a detour of at least two
hours). A garden park
golf course has been
enclosed in the real
estate so tightly that
only ten meters
separates each greens
from its next tee box.
Fooore!!!
Sahl Hasheesh:
Behind the hills at the
south end of Hurghada’s
bay is another bay of 11
kms sand beaches. There
two new championship
golf courses are planned
to take place in a
billion dollars
Pharaonic project
comprising a dozen of
hotels, villas,
apartments, marinas,
commercial centres,
hospital, etc. Opening
in 2006.
Golf courses:
- Alexandria Sporting
Club - Alexandria
Telephone +203
543-3627/8/9
- Cascades Golf Resort &
Country Club - Soma
Bay/Red Sea
Tel & Fax: 065-54 49 01
- e-mail:
cascades@hurghada.ie-eg
- Dreamland Golf &
Tennis resort – Cairo
Tel 2011 400 577-78 -
e-mail:
dreamgolf@ie-eg.com
- El Gouna Golf &
Firness Club - Red Sea
Tel 0020 65 580 009 -
e-mail:
golf@elgouna.com
- Gezira Golf Club -
Cairo
Tel +202
736-0434/735-6000 - Fax
+202 736-7293
- Jolie Ville Golf
Resort - Sharm el Sheikh
Tel +2062 603 200-210 –
Fax 2062 603 225
- Katameya Heights Golf
& Tennis club - Cairo
Tel +202 758 0512-17 –
e-mail:
katameya@egyptonline.com
- Mena House Golf
Tel +202 383 3222 - Fax
+202 383 34544
- Mirage JW Marriott
Golf Club - Cairo
Tel +2 (92) 412 5041–
e-mail:
marketing@miragecity.com.eg
- Pyramids Golf &
Country Club
Tel +201 1799 728 –
e-mail:
pyramidsgolf@soleimaneyah.com
- Royal Valley Golf Club
- Luxor
Tel : +(2012) 212-9204 |
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