Tim Lobb reports on his experiences of playing the newly opened – Greg Norman Design – Fire Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. January 19th, 2010.

During our trip to Dubai this week to review the design for Emirates Golf Club and visit Dubai Golf City we were fortunate enough to enjoy the hospitality of Jumeirah Golf Estates and play the newly opened Fire Course. The course is of championship length with wide fairways, subtle sloping greens (very fair and interesting) and striking bunkers with a lovely contrast of textures achieved through clever ornamental grass plantings.

Please see below some picture to help describe this achievement.

Lovely textured bunkers

Hole 2 is a cracking par 3 with significant challenge

So refreshing to see a natural looking golf course in the Middle East

Dramatic bunkering at the forefront of this design

Congratulations must go to Greg Norman Design, the onsite construction/ maintenance guys and to the Jumeirah Golf Estates team who are rapidly developing this into a world class golfing experience.

Please follow our upcoming blog posts in the near future describing the modernisation works that we are going to be undertaking on the Majlis Course, Emirates Golf Club. Good luck to all the guys at Emirates Golf Club for the upcoming European Tour event – Dubai Desert Classic.

WRITTEN ON January 21st, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Golf News, Our projects, Philosophy, Tim Lobb, Top Courses, Travels