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REGIONAL GUIDE<br />
Dubai, UAE<br />
Chris Bertram suggests the skyscrapers in the desert should be on every golfer’s horizon.<br />
Seeing pictures of the climax to the<br />
‘Desert Swing’ on the European<br />
Tour last month may well have<br />
given you a taste for a golf holiday in<br />
glamourous and intriguing Dubai. You<br />
might then have reflected that organising<br />
a golf holiday here would be at best an<br />
exciting step into the unknown, but very<br />
possibly fairly intimidating.<br />
The skyscrapers of Dubai have been<br />
on the Tour scene for 25 years but it is<br />
still not a path especially well-trodden by<br />
golfers and a lack of knowledge about<br />
what a golf break here is really like might<br />
be one reason. We know it is flashy,<br />
warm and built on sand, but what are the<br />
courses really like? And is the prospect of<br />
a tourist navigating their way from one<br />
course to another a laughable prospect?<br />
We’ve been to Dubai before and we<br />
still weren’t absolutely sure of the<br />
answers. So we cheated and enlisted Golf<br />
Dubai Plus to help us make the most of<br />
our visit. It was founded by Graham<br />
Davies, who left Essex for Dubai 22<br />
years ago and has lived there ever since.<br />
His expertise gave us terrific insight<br />
into Dubai on and off the course, so<br />
hopefully we can pass on the knowledge<br />
we gained to remove any reticence you<br />
might have about booking a holiday here.<br />
It would be a shame to be reluctant, for<br />
there is a huge amount to commend it.
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