Golf in morocco: More than one hundred years of history…
Morocco is celebrating more than one hundred years of golf history in the Kingdom of golf. The first greens, which appeared in Tangier in 1914, were designed by the famous British architects Cotton & Pennink. In 1930, the second golf course of the Kingdom was born: the Royal Golf Mohammedia: still very British and in the purest Scottish tradition. Three years earlier in 1927, the Marrakech Pacha imagined the Royal Golf Marrakech, which was finally established in 1933. These three courses represented in the 1930’s the very essence of golfing in Morocco and it took time for new golf courses to be built. Morocco started at the beginning of the 1970’s a large scale golf program, inspired by the visionary late King Hassan II. He launched the largest golf course in Morocco, the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam: 45 holes designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior. While the prestigious Hassan II Golf Trophy was used as a powerful advertising medium internationally to put Morocco’s golf to the forefront. Golf in Morocco has been developing ever since, to become a full fledged tourism product with famous golf destinations.