The Els Club, Dubai – Four round bundle for AED 800
Some bypass summer golf in the Middle East altogether, some can’t get enough of the red hot deals. For the latter, The Els Club Dubai is worthy of a look. Make that repeat rounds. The club is offering four rounds for AED 800, valid from Sunday, Aug. 19 to Saturday, Aug. 25.

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Trump International Golf Club, Dubai – from AED 175

You’ll find few courses in better condition at this time of year than the Gil Hanse design at DAMAC Hills which makes the AED 175 deal a steal. Whats more, you get complimentary pool access thoughout Eid week and top deals of F&B. Visit: www.trumpgolfdubai.com/tee-times for more.

RELATED: The Middle East’s top 10 clubs

Want to go bigger? How about Trump’s “Ultimate Dubai summer golf upgrade”? In a nutshell, it’s full membership for three of four months, paid monthly and inclusive of VAT. The deal runs from Sept. 1 or Oct.1 until Dec. 31 for AED9333 or AED7000 respectively. Email ngatland@trumpgolfdubai.com or follow the prompts from Trump Dubai’s social posts to avail this deal.

The Dubai Summer brings about fantastic golfing all around the city. This year we bring you the Ultimate Summer Golf Upgrade. Here’s your chance to avail of a 3 or 4 month full membership with unlimited 7-day access, paid monthly at the club. 1 Sep to 31 Dec – AED 9333 1 Oct to 31 Dec – AED 7000 Prices are Inclusive of VAT Email : info@trumpgolfdubai.com or call 04 2453939 to avail of the limited time offer.

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Sharjah Golf & Shooting Club – From AED 126*
They make it easy to play golf at the Staysure Tour venue with their nifty WhatsApp booking service –  +971 (0)56 228 3649 – and its super cheap this EID, and throughout August, if you can cobble together a fourball. Normal 18 hole greens fees start at AED 175, but the more mates you bring along, the cheaper it gets, down to *AED 126pp for a fourball.

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Emirates Golf Club – 2-FOR-1

Golf during Eid Al Adh on the Majlis and Faldo courses when you book via the the Golf Central App. The offer is actually valid until Sept. 14 but check the T&Cs. The fine print is that promotional tee times are subject to availability so pounce while you can.

Golf Central via App Store
Golf Central via Google Play

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Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club – 2-FOR-1
Emirates G.C.’s Dubai Golf sister club is offering the same deal so download that Golf Central App today (see links above)!

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Yas Links – AED 250
Just when you get a decent run of time off to play golf, the rates go up, right? Wrong. Not at Abu Dhabi’s links extravaganza anyway. During public holidays, green fees normally increase to weekend rates however the team at Yas Links is keeping it at standard midweek rates – AED 250 – throughout the Eid Al Adha celebrations. There’s also a 2-FOR-1 offer on Tuesday, Aug. 21 (also the following Tues, Aug.28) that will give you AED 50 to spend in the club’s Pro Shop. Jolly good show all round.

Or how about this? We certainly don’t need much of an arm-twist to return to Yas.

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Al Hamra Golf Club –  Eid Stay and Play


How about a wee golf staycation this Eid Al Adha? The team at Al Hamra have come up with a great deal at the Challenge Tour venue with AED 625 getting you nine holes of night golf, bed and breakfast at Al Hamra Village Hotel and then 18 holes on the championship course where next season’s European Tour graduates will be decided.

RELATED: Al Hamra to host Challenge Tour grand final until 2020

The deal runs until Sept. 30 and packages can be amended to include different hotels and F&B Packages.

Check out the Stay & Play – JulySept Deal here.

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What is Eid Al Adha?
While we are at it, why do we have time off? Here’s an explanation from our pals at What’s On.
“This holiday honours Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail, which is why goats are symbolically sacrificed over this period. It is separate from Eid Al Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan.”

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By Kent Gray
Talk about keeping it in the family. Just hours after his U.S. Open winning brother Brooks Koepka grabbed the first round lead at the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, little bro Chase snared a share of the $350,000 Ras Al Khaimah 2017 Golf Challenge lead.

Chase rattled off five birdies in a four-under 68 at Al Hamra G.C. to join overnight leader Jurrian van der Vaart (France) atop the leaderboard through 36-holes of the European Challenge Tour’s penultimate stop of 2017.

“I heard about Brooks’ round in China so I just wanted to make sure I made a birdie on the last hole to make sure I’m on top of the leaderboard as well!” Chase told EuropeanTour.com 

Related: Brooks Koepka leads WGC-HSBC Champions after 64 in Shanghai

“It’s a good day to be a golfer called Koepka, but there’s not too many bad days to be a Koepka! Certainly not this year anyway.”

Making it look easy

5 birdies dropped for @ChaseKoepka today as he moved to 10 under and into the #RAKGolfChallenge lead pic.twitter.com/JoVJzpvf72

— Challenge Tour (@Challenge_Tour) October 26, 2017

Brooks’ path to his maiden major at Erin Hills in June came via the Challenge Tour with the American winning four times before graduating to the European Tour in 2013. Chase has had five top-5 finishes in this year’s Road to Oman so is guaranteed to emulate his older brother by making it to the main tour and could do it with even more style as victory in RAK would give him a shot at the Challenge Tour title at next week’s €420,000 NBO Golf Classic Grand Final at Almouj Golf in Muscat.

“I’d love to top the rankings,” the 23 year said. “I think in order to do that I’ll need to win one of these last two events so that’s my goal. It’s been a great year anyway but if I can hopefully play well this weekend, I might be able to get that first win.”

Chase came close to winning the Challenge Tour’s “major”, the Kazakhstan Open last month, only to be pipped in a playoff by current order-of-merit leader, Tapio Pulkkanen. The Finnish golfer was in a share of 41st place at Al Hamra overnight.

“I’d love to win,” Chase, sixth in the moneylist entering RAK, continued. ” I was really looking forward to possibly getting that first victory in Kazakhstan – I actually didn’t get off to the greatest of starts there but I found my way into a play-off and it just didn’t quite happen. I feel like my game has been great for a while now. I missed the cut two weeks ago but I actually felt probably the best I’ve felt all season going into that week, which was quite strange.

“Then last week I thought I played my best golf of the year and I finished 20th, that’s just the way golf works I guess. This week, nothing’s really changed, I’m still playing really good golf and now the scores are there too.”

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