Awali Golf Club

Established in 1938
P. O. Box 25413, Awali

Tel +973 1775 6770
Fax +973 1775 4653

No. 13 "Baker's Dozen"

A straight 379 yard par 4 hole with a championship tee extending it to 409 yards. Missing the fairway on the right will mean that you are faced with a shot from amongst the trees, or shrubs if in the deeper rough. Over to the left is a thick tree line and a sandbank that juts into the fairway. For your second shot you will have to negotiate the large fairway bunker lying across the front of the brown. The brown itself, although not having bunkers is surrounded by a sandbank leaving a narrow gully between it and the brown. The brown slopes back towards the fairway but has a flat table towards the back.

No. 14 "Missile Creek"

No. 15 "The Graveyard"

This aptly named hole, because it has an out of bounds area protecting a graveyard on the left, is regarded as the toughest hole on the course and is a 418 yards par four stroke index 1 challenge, with the championship tee this becomes a 488 yard hole. The tee box is slightly raised above the level of the fairway, which is long and wide. As already mentioned beware of the graveyard on the left, beyond the graveyard and in the rough are shrubs and trees. The rough on the right is rough terrain with scattered trees. At about 100 yard from the brown the fairway comes to a bottleneck with two over lapping bunkers across the entire width of the fairway. The brown slopes back towards the fairway, but has a flat top towards the back, it is also quite small and therefore requires great accuracy if you are approaching it with a longish shot. It is almost completely surrounded by sand traps. The added difficulty with this hole is that the wind is predominantly into the player's face.

No. 16 "McGregor's"

Another hole named after an early prominent member of the club, Dr Peter McGregor. The sixteenth is a 409 yard par 4 hole with a slight bend from left to right. A fairway bunker on the right of the fairway will catch most players at some time or another. The brown is reachable from the tee by the better players but they have to play across the tops of the trees that extend beyond the bunker. The brown lies under the trees to the rear and right and has steep sand banks to the left. The recently modified bunker on the front right is now much larger and wider. There are also bunkers to the left centre and extending towards the rear of the brown.

No. 17 "The Moat"

A reasonably difficult 376 yard par four hole with a stroke index of 5 (401 yards from the championship tee) has trees to the left and small shrubs and a sandbank in the rough on the right. The hole is a slight dogleg to the left, playing out to the right will enable you to see the water that lies across the front of the brown and the tree on the right edge of the fairway. Just across the water the brown is further protected with fairly large but shallow bunkers to the left and right front. The remainder of the brown, which also lies under the trees to the rear, has steep banks, which is ok if you slightly over hit the shot as it will roll back but difficult to get back if you have put the ball over the back.

No. 18 "Khalas"

Khalas is the Arabic word for 'finished' or 'the end', fitting therefore for this hole. The eighteenth is the only par 5 hole on the incoming half of the course and is 489 yards long. A slice off the tee will cause you some problems as 'Out of Bounds' is almost the full length of the right side of the fairway. Scattered trees on both sides of the fairway make up the rough. A fairly straight and long tee shot will be needed to avoid the two very large sandbanks on the left and right of the fairway causing the fairway to bottleneck at that point. A shallow fairway bunker is situated to left of the centre just beyond the sand banks. The brown sits atop a hill beside the clubhouse with a road running across the front bottom of the hill. A large deep bunker slightly right of the centre and halfway up the hill is definitely not the place to be. Further protection of the two level brown is in the form of a bunker on the right one at the back and one to the left, and if that isn't enough there are trees just over hanging the front left. The path around the clubhouse marks the out of bounds area.