HOG World Tour Visits Morocco’s Assoufid Golf Club

The fourth and final golf course on the HOG World Tour trip to Morocco was the #1 course in Morocco (World Golf Awards), Assoufid Golf Club. Assoufid is a desert style course with some great elevation changes and creative architecture.

Target golf, anyone?

Assoufid is located a short drive southwest of Marrakesh, a city of about 1.5 million (map below).

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If you’ve played golf in Palm Springs, you’ll feel at home at Assoufid. There are distinct takeoff and landing areas, with desert between. Holes are lined with palm trees and olive trees.

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Unfortunately our group’s round there was rained out, hard. We got as far as the approach shot on the 10th hole when it was too heavy to plod on. Sorry to my Scottish friends about that.

I even left my golf ball in the fairway on #10. I need to go back and find it soon.

Stay tuned for a full review of Assoufid, and more posts on Morocco.

Video Highlights: Mazagan Golf Club in Morocco

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, November 28th, 2016
Categories: Golf • Golf Course Architecture • Golf Courses • Golf For Women • Golf Videos • HOG World Tour • Life
Tags: Morocco • Morocco Golf

A couple of posts ago I mentioned the HOG World Tour stop to Mazagan Golf Club in Morocco, a Gary Player design right on the shoreline. Beautiful. Below are some video highlights.

HOG World Tour Visits Morocco’s Royal Palm Golf Club in Marrakech

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, November 27th, 2016
Categories: Golf • Golf Course Architecture • Golf Courses • Golf For Women • HOG World Tour
Tags: Morocco • Morocco Golf

Golf course three of four on the HOG World Tour to Morocco last week was the tremendously fun Royal Palm Golf Club in Marrakech (see map below for location). Royal Palm is architecturally different than Mazagan Golf Club and Royal Golf Dar Es Salam.
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This course is more of what I would have expected in Morocco, a desert course. It has some light “target” style aspects to it, like courses in Arizona, Nevada, and southern Utah.

Some courses beat you up or lack in interesting holes and movement. Not here. This course was very “fun” to play.

Royal Palm Golf Club in Marrakech Morocco

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HOG World Tour Visits Morocco’s Mazagan Golf Club

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, November 25th, 2016
Categories: Golf • Golf Course Architecture • Golf Courses • Golf For Women • HOG World Tour • Travel
Tags: Gary Player • Mazagan Beach and Golf Club • Morocco • Morocco Golf • Travel

The 2nd course on the Hooked on Golf Blog World Tour visit to Morocco was Mazagan Golf Club, located in El Jadida, Morocco. Mazagan is a Gary Player design, located right on the shore. Huge breakers hit the shoreline from the Atlantic Ocean. What a great location.

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Mazagan Golf is located a short drive southwest from Casablanca, Morocco. The course is part of the Mazagan Beach and Golf Resort.

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Much of the course is right on the shoreline. The views are equally as spectacular as the golf!
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I will be posting a review of Mazagan Golf soon as well as posting some photos and commentary about the resort, which is very nice.

Holiday Golf Gift Guide

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, November 25th, 2016
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf For Women • Golf Gear • Golf Lifestyle
Tags: Christmas Golf Gift • Holiday Golf Gift

Custom Golf Belt from NXT18

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One of the coolest gifts ever, a custom milled belt buckle from NXT golf. Put your company logo, favorite team, or custom graphic on the aluminum buckle.

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Kentwool Socks

Such a great color...

Destined to be in every golf Christmas gift guide I ever write is Kentwool socks. Kentwool are the best socks on the planet. Period.

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Bushnell Neo iON Golf GPS Rangefinder Watch

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With this golf GPS watch, the golfer on your shopping list will always have solid yardages to the front, center, and back of the green.

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Vegas Golf VIP Edition

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This is a very fun game for your golf group. Chips in the set represent events like birdies, bunkers and such. Collect the good ones and try not to collect the bad ones!

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