Royal Golf Dar Es Salam – Red Course

Morocco’s capital of Rabat is home to the Golfclub Royal Golf Dar Es Salam. It lies on a 440-hectare, hilly terrain in the middle of an idyllic cork tree forest near the Atlantic coast. From Rabat’s city center, the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam golf club is easily reachable in about 15 minutes via Avenue Mohamed VI. It was founded in 1972 at the suggestion of Moroccan King Hassan II. and houses two 18-hole and a 9-hole course that were designed by the famous golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr. The 18-hole Red Course with par 73 is the club’s championship course and was redesigned in 2016 by Cabell Robinson. It has an impressive length of 6,702 meters and boasts large, partly elevated greens and numerous doglegs. The numerous bunkers make the course at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam very technical and demanding. Its signature hole is hole 9, at which an island green requires a 172-meter shot across a large lily pond. The 18-hole Blue Course is considerably shorter with 6,205 meters, features fast greens and several water hazards. Hole 11 is particularly noteworthy, with a narrowed fairway, a lake on the left side, and Roman columns from the antique city of Volubilis. Finally, the 9-hole Green Course with par 32 is a good place to practice the short game.