Dar Essalam Royale Golf
The Dar ES-Salam Royale Golf Club, Rabat
Close to Rabat, the 45 holes at the Royal Dar Es-Salam Golf Club are the dream of golfers from all over the world. The Royal Moroccan Golf Federation and the Hassan II Trophy which takes place there each year have made it a golf course with an international reputation.
It should be said that here, Robert Trent Jones gave full rein to his imagination, laying out ravishing fairways among the cypress, palm, eucalyptus and cork-oak trees, adding luxuriant ficus, banana and papyrus plants and spreading the delicate fragrances of mimosa, rose, hyacinths, hibiscus and narcissi ... You even wonder if his attention to detail included programming a flight of wild duck and pink flamingos overhead...
THE RED COURSE.
6702 metres where Robert Trent Jones makes all the rules. This par 73 is a veritable fortress. Scoring less than 70 is something very few professionals manage to achieve. It is vital to make an accurate drive, for the trees and the sand give you very little leeway. And then there is the water... Which makes the ninth a living legend with its 172 metres played over the heads of the water lilies.
Water is also an ever-present hazard along the 481 metres of the twelfth, closing off the angles to its green. On the other side, it takes on the aspect of a source of beauty, a sublime mirror for a series of Roman columns which came from the ancient city of Volubilis.
THE BLUE COURSE.
Bushes of white daisies, beds of wild flowers, pink, orange and red, carpets of violet blooms: the fairways have a pastoral charm. The eleventh for example; a romantic and sublime par 4 hides a green nestling between clumps of eucalyptus, a bunker of red sand and a pond with a population of water hens. This 18 hole par 72 course is not as demanding as the red course. But you cannot take anything for granted - the blue course can still surprise you.
THE GREEN COURSE.
Fewer surprises and a greater feeling of being at ease on this relaxed 9 hole course, consisting of only par 3 and par 4 holes which are essentially designed to entertain. But don't let yourself be distracted by the little ox-pecker birds that will be following every stroke of your play !
For more information, contact:
THE ROYAL MOROCCAN GOLF FEDERATION
The Royal Dar Es-Salam Golf Club, Rabat
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