Just Golfing Holidays

Mohammedia Royal

At a Glance

• Fabulous coastal setting

This course has been played since 1924, and before the Royal Dar es Salam course was opened in Rabat, it was the premier golf course in Morocco. It is of international standard and located approximately 18 miles to the north of Casablanca, partly on the seashore, offering challenging golf for the experts and enjoyable golf for the not-so-talented.

Between two lines of pines and eucalyptus, the first fairway is a ceremonious procession into...Scotland. For that is where you might be once you are on the second hole; a restless sea, white dunes, pink laurel bushes, gorse and acacias, all lashed by the wind ... a wind you have to deal with throughout the whole course. At the ninth you return to the woods, among the fragrant maritime pines. And then, a surprise; the green boasts an unusual, but highly attractive defence, in the shape of an army of flowers.

The nineteenth hole is set in a delightful, charming and flower-decked setting. Relaxing in the welcoming cool of the veranda, the experienced members of this Moroccan club dating from the 20's never fail to advise newcomers just how they should play the twelfth with force and the sixteenth with finesse.