PO Box 24040,
Sheik Zayed Rd (Interchange No.5), Dubai
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Alastair Brown (PGA, Head Academy Professional).Academy
The Academy at Emirates Golf ClubThe Course:
18 holes. Desert-style. Gently undulating terrain - easy to walk (depending how hot the day is), but usually golf carts are compulsory.
Surroundings:
Residential, city environment.
Designer:
Original design by Karl Litten and Jeremy Pern. Major re-design by Nick Faldo (2006).
Above distances are for the Faldo course. Also at Emirates GC is the 18-hole Majlis course (par-72; 7301 yds from back tees), and the nine-hole par-3 Academy course (par-27; 1239 yds).
25.084962
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7 km SW of Ski Dubai / Mall of the Emirates
Emirates Golf Club is located in the heart of 'New Dubai', accessible off Sheikh Zayed Road (E11) and opposite Dubai Media City and Dubai Internet City. The Nakheel station (Dubai Metro) is located directly outside the Club's main entrance.
Emirates (Faldo)
Emirates Golf Club (The Faldo course): Nick Faldo's impressively designed course here at Emirates Golf Club (originally called the Wadi course) lays down an excellent golfing challenge under the gaze of the ever-expanding skyline of the Dubai Media City and Dubai Marina developments.
Integral to Faldo's enjoyable and testing design are copious amounts of greenside and fairway bunkering, frequent water hazards and fast, sloping greens that will quickly expose any weaknesses in your putting. The layout juxtaposes the manicured feel of a top-quality resort course with some typically desert-like characteristics - not least a liberal sprinkling of palm trees contained within large, serrated-edged sandy waste areas. A good-sized lake features strongly on the front-nine, with a touch more undulation coming into play on the inward-nine.
The toughest stretch of holes arguably comes on the front-nine, with water in play from tee-to-green along the entire rightside of the par-5 5th and par-4 7th. The exquisite par-3 8th demands a shot to an elevated and concealed green, and to close things out at the halfway point, a testing short par-4 brings the full array of bunkers, water hazards and waste areas into play.
This high quality and challenging layout is a terrific sister course to the Emirates' more renowned Majlis course. It is also a layout where the occupants of countless skyscrapers might just have binoculars to hand and be taking a passing interest in your progress around the course.
Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends. 8am and 1pm shotgun starts are sometimes used. Floodlit night golf available on the Faldo course.
Must book in advance (well in advance during peak season). Maximum handicap: men 28, women 36. Proof of handicap required.
Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2023].
Non-metal spike facility. Golf carts are fitted with GPS.
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The Faldo course, formerly known as the Wadi course, took its original name from the arabic word meaning a dry river bed that contains water during times of heavy rain.
The Emirates Golf Club is a member of Dubai Golf - a government owned group of golf courses, which also includes the Emirates Majlis course, Dubai Creek, and Jumeirah Estates (Earth and Fire courses).
Middle East & North Africa's 34th best course (Golf World, 2024).
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