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its two-year-old course will host the Volvo
World Matchplay Championship.
The fastest-growing golf region in Spain is
Murcia. Home to La Manga, a favourite with
British holidaymakers for more than three
decades, Murcia now has 17 top-quality
courses. They include four by golf legend
Jack Nicklaus which form the basis for the
Nicklaus Golf Trail, a project in conjunction
with resort operator Polaris World incorpo-
rating two InterContinental hotels. The trail
will eventually have nine courses.
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TUNISIA.
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ykia Gr
Tunisia’s 10th 18-hole golf course opened
LykiaLinks, part of the LykiaWorld & LykiaLinksGolf Antalya resort complex, is at the forefront of a golf boom in Turkey in November just 15 minutes from capital
Tunis. The Residence Golf Course is set
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. with last year’s opening of Ernie Els’ between the Carthage coast and a salt lake,
The Faldo Legacy Course at Roco Ki in the Anahita The Resort. alongside luxury hotel The Residence, a
Dominican Republic opened in December. member of The Leading Hotels of the World.
It is Faldo’s first design in the Dominican MEXICO.
Republic. The course is the first of three Mexico’s golfing credentials are growing all TURKEY.
planned at Roco Ki, which will also see a the time. Many of its top courses are located Turkey is one of Europe’s fastest-growing
Westin resort open in 2010, followed by a near popular tourist areas such as Cancun golf destinations. Its southern resort of
Fairmont. and the Riviera Maya. El Camaleon, the Belek has 11 clubs with 14 courses.
area’s top golf course, is a Greg Norman Three new courses opened in late 2008:
DUBAI. creation which opened in 2006. It forms the Papillon Golf Club’s Montgomerie
Dubai has become such a golf tour de force part of the Fairmont Mayakoba resort and Course, designed by Colin Montgomerie; the
that the European Tour’s HQ moves to the hosts Mexico’s only PGA Tour event, the Carya Golf Club course, co-designed by five-
Jumeirah Golf Estates complex this year. Its Mayakoba Golf Classic, each February. time Open Champion Peter Thomson; and
Earth Golf Course, one of four there, will The more established Golf Club at Playacar the Eastern Mediterranean’s first true links,
stage November’s $10 million-purse Dubai ranks as one of Mexico’s most difficult. It LykiaLinks, which is part of the LykiaWorld
World Championship as the climax of the is located near Playa del Carmen, where & LykiaLinksGolf Antalya resort complex.
European Tour calendar. resort hotels include the luxury, all-inclusive
Another 12 courses will take the emirate Secrets Resort Capri Riviera Cancun. USA.
to 20 within four years. They include the Recent openings include the Ritz-Carlton
Tiger Woods Dubai, Woods’ first golf design PORTUGAL. Golf Club at Dove Mountain, in Tucson,
opening later this year. The Els Club, designed In Portugal’s Algarve, the Oceanico Group’s Arizona. The Jack Nicklaus desert mountain
by Ernie Els, opened in April 2008 as part of Amendoeira Golf Resort opened last year course hosted the Accenture Match Play
the Dubai Sports City development. with two golf courses, by Nick Faldo and Ire- Championship with the world’s top 64 play-
land’s Christy O’Connor Jr. At nearby Vilam- ers at the end of February. The 250-room
EGYPT. oura, the 280-room, five-star Tivoli Victoria Ritz-Carlton spa resort opens this autumn.
Egypt is also embracing golf, with 17 courses opened alongside the Arnold Palmer-de- Oregon’s top-rated Bandon Dunes Resort
from the Mediterranean to Cairo, Luxor and signed Victoria Golf Course in March. has opened the first 10 holes of Old Macdon-
the Red Sea. Among more under construc- The Lisbon Golf Coast’s newest resort ald, its fourth course, for play ahead of the
tion are designs by Nick Faldo, Jack Nick- opened an hour’s drive north of the full 18 opening in June 2010. Neighbouring
laus and Greg Norman. Portuguese capital last September. Washington State’s acclaimed Chambers
The newest course is Madinat The Bom Sucesso Design Resort, Bay public golf course is just two years old
Makadi Golf Resort, in new Red Leisure & Golf resort features an – yet it has already been awarded the 2010
Sea resort village Madinat 18-hole championship course, US Amateur Championship and 2015 US
Makadi, near Hurghada. Its spa hotel, housing and other Open.
adjacent, luxury Jaz Makadi leisure facilities.
Golf Hotel opened in
November with a wedding SPAIN.
GOLF OPERATORS
vows renewal party thrown Spain’s top golfing region, Andalu-
The International Association of Golf Tour Operators
by Spice Girl Melanie Brown cia, encompasses the ever-popular
is the global trade organisation for the golf tourism
and husband Stephen Belafonte. Costa del Sol, where new golf resort
industry. As part of its 1,108 accredited golf-related
Finca Cortesin opened a 67-room, five-star
companies, it provides a list of its 309 specialist golf
MAURITIUS. resort hotel and spa last October and a Jack
tour operators, covering 49 countries.
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Mauritius now has eight 18-hole courses Nicklaus Academy last month. This autumn,
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