Itinerary Type - Golf
Destination - Kenya

Itinerary Summary

One of Kenya's best kept secrets is its numerous golf courses .Few places in the world offer such perfect ingredients for a fantastic golf holiday, as Kenya does. The opportunity to play your favorite game, to see wildlife (sometimes on the course!) and to relax on the beautiful white sandy beach

MUTHAIGA GOLF CLUB
6176 yards - par 71 - 18 holes
Muthaiga Golf Club lies at the edge of Karura forest and sport many indigenous trees. A variety of trees and flowering bushes not only come into play on almost every hole, but also make this course one of the prettiest to play. The layout is beautiful and one that has many challenges in store for both the regular and the visiting golfer. Home of the Kenya Open Golf Championship - part of the European PGA.

Past winners include Ballesteros, Woosnam, Canizaes en Maarten Lafeber. Beware of the bunkers in the front of the fastest greens in East Africa. The course is very well maintained and a pleasure to play. Muthaiga Golf Club has just undergone a complete reconstruction of its course by course architect Peter Markovich, who also designed the Arabella Golf Club in South Africa. That course has been voted one of the top 10 golf courses in South Africa by S.A. Golf Digest. This accolade comes in its first full year of official ratings. When the work is finished, Muthaiga will once again be the leading course in Kenya and East Africa for professional golf tournaments and avid golfers alike.

KAREN GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB
6893 yards - par 72 - 18 holes
Home of the Kenya Open 2004 and 2005. Considered by some to be one of the prettiest courses in Kenya because of its profusion of flowering trees and bushes, Karen Country Club is a must play. It is certainly one of the top 18-hole championship courses in the country. The course is next to the house of Karen Blixen - the author of "Out of Africa" and situated in the colonial suburb of Karen.

Karen Country Club is a delightful course to play. You will most likely think back on your round of golf here, with fond recollections.

LIMURU COUNTRY CLUB
6519 yards - par 71 - 18 holes
Limuru Country Club's 18-hole golf course is extremely enjoyable to play. Not only is its tea country location aesthetically appealing, but the lush, green course is well manicured and well maintained. The 40 minute drive takes you up through verdant tea fields stretching for miles and miles on either side of the road. At an elevation of 7000 feet (2330 meters), the golf course receives more rainfall and provides a year-round lush green carpet of turf. Most sand traps are deep and have very large mounds to contend with. This course is a delight to play and is guaranteed to have you coming back for more!

SIGONA GOLF CLUB
6519 yards par 71 - 18 holes
Sigona Golf Club has a fine reputation for having some of the most beautiful fairways in Kenya. Sitting near the Rift Valley at an altitude of 6,600 feet (2200m), Sigona receives more than average rainfall. The Kikuyu grass keeps the course looking lush and verdant year round. The green keeper tells: "any player can use almost any golf club, from his driver to his sand wedge, off these fairways".

The course is very hilly and most of the eighteen tees are elevated. It is one course which will definitely test your golf skills along with your physical
conditioning. Sigona provides a tough but very pleasant 18 holes of golf.

ROYAL NAIROBI GOLF CLUB
7021 yards - par 71 18 holes
It hosts some of the country's prestigious events. The front nine is relatively flat, while the back nine have the characteristics of a rolling hill side.
The course is very well maintained. Flowering bushes and a huge assortment of tree species lend color and aesthetic appeal to the course.
The lovely Ngong Hills can be seen from different viewpoints all along the course. Royal Nairobi Golf Club hosts some of the prettiest holes in Kenya and offers the average golfer a real opportunity to card a good round of golf.

RIFT VALLEY GOLF CLUB
6580 yards - par 72 18 holes
Very popular over the weekends among the local golfers, the course has spectacular settings and a challenging character. The first player to break the 71 par here, the Irish professional David Jones, described it as the best young course he had ever played on.
This Thomas Fjastad designed course is a pleasure to play for the golfing tourist.

NYALI GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB
6510 yards - par 71 - 18 holes
Nyali Golf and Country Club's championship golf course is the first 18 holes on Kenya's coast. This is a gently rolling course with a decent mixture of right and left doglegs and shallow fairway bushes. Players will see an abundance of wildlife including dik-dik and bands of vervet monkeys, the club's mascot, frolicking about the course. While the course is not located on the ocean, the intrinsic winds definitely influence the playing conditions. The course displays a number of beautiful flowering trees, including the flamboyant Flame tree, originally from Madagascar.

This championship golf course offers all challenges experienced golfers look for, while at the same time it provides the high handicapped an entertaining round.