Morocco
At Agadir, tikida means carat golfing

Where to play

Agadir counts, for the time being, three golf clubs open to the public : the Royal Golf Course (9 holes), the Golf des Dunes (27 holes) and the Golf du Soleil (36 holes) which represent 72 holes. Due to the success of golf which drains each year more and more players to Agadir, plans are ready to extend the capacity to 108 holes (maybe to 126).

At about ten kms on the road to the airport, the 9-hole Royal Golf Course has been for years the only one in Agadir. It goes back to 1955 when a Scottish golf enthusiast, named Wilson, dug a hole in what was then only a luxuriant fallow land. A few years later, another enthusiast, called Colonel Kamili, continued the work. He designed the nine holes and their triangular setting bordered with flowers, the Agadir Royal Golf Club. It is a par 36 of 3,600 meters long with fairways perfumed by pines, eucalyptus and mimosa, fragrances that blend with the tang of the nearby ocean ... It is a delightful course preferred by players who dislike narrow and tormented fairways. After the game, players can meet in the panoramic club house buried in a cascade of Bougainvillea area.

In 1991, along the same road but nearer from the city, the Club Med opened the three 9-holes of the Golf des Dunes designed by Cabell Robinson who has been assistant to Robert Trent Jones and is also designer of Amelkis course in Marrakech or El Jadida near Casablanca. The Dunes is located on an undulating land where eucalyptus, palm trees, tamarisk and white broom are abundant giving their natural names to the different courses: Eucalyptus, Oued and Tamarisk .Before the club-house, the large practice hosts the golf clinics.

At the next door, along a party wall, stays the Golf du Soleil which has been created in 1999 by M. Marrache, owner of the Tikida Hotels. It is now a two 18-hole designed by the Spanish architect Fernando Muella. Being close neighbour of the Dunes, the nature and environment are similar but the architecture is slightly different. The club-house and its restaurant with terrace overlooks the last greens, Fairways are lined by high eucalyptus of which the shadow is very much appreciated. It has also the particularity that not any hole is straight from tee to green but always bowed. Good for those who master well draws and fades. Water hazards are present on many holes where the second shot has to overfly the water to reach the green. Some holes have fantastic views to the Atlas mountains in the background. The practice and the golf academy are nearby the very welcoming clubhouse.

If the Royal Links, designed by Robert Trent Jones on the Royal Palace property, is still a private course only open to pros competition like the Maroc Open, it is said that in the future, these wonderful championship course could open its faiwayrs to special occasions or organizations.
Last but not least, there is a project to built in a next future 27 holes on a property of 90 hectares bought by the Dorint Group in the same surroundings. So that Agadir could count 126 holes becoming a great golf yearlong golf estination.  

Atlas view from...

... Golf du Soleil

Mosque in the backhround

Golfing or fishing?

On the Blue course

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