Al Badia Golf Club Dubai
Dubai Archive Course

Al Badia Golf Club Dubai

Dubai Festival CityEditors’ score 4.0/5Dubai Archive Course

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Overview

Why it matters

Al Badia Golf Club Dubai is preserved in Inside Loop as an archive profile: a once-prominent Robert Trent Jones II course at Dubai Festival City that helped define an earlier chapter of the city's golf-and-hospitality growth. The course is no longer part of current tee-time planning, but it remains important to understanding how quickly Dubai golf evolves.

For travelers researching historic Dubai golf courses, Al Badia explains the city's restless development pattern: ambitious land, resort logic, water, landscaping, and then reinvention. It is a reminder that the UAE golf map is living, not fixed.

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Par

72

Yardage

7,303

Holes

18

Opened

2005

Green fee

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Difficulty

7/10

Architect

Robert Trent Jones II

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Inside Loop Archive

★★★★★

Al Badia is no longer a live booking, but its profile remains useful for understanding Dubai golf history.

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Dine like a champion

Local tables worth planning around.

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20 min drive

Mina Brasserie

$$$$

Modern brasserie

Four Seasons DIFC dining room

DIFC polish, confident cooking, and a convenient city base for discussing old and new Dubai golf.

An archive-friendly city pairing for travelers using Al Badia as historical context while playing Dubai’s active courses.