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

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, November 27th, 2016
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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.
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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
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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.


HOG World Tour Visits Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Rabat, Morocco

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016
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I’m still traveling and I had a small problem with my brand new MacBook Pro. The power cable plug broke. That and non-existent or extremely slow internet access has made it tough for me to post from the tour. I’ll be catching up for a while.

The HOG World Tour made it’s first golf stop in the African continent at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Rabat, Morocco.

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Royal Golf Dar Es Salam
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Royal Golf Dar Es Salam is a Robert Trent Jones, Sr. design. “RTJ” is one of the all-time greats of golf architecture.
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Above are rocks which could be found in places on the course.  They had some kind of crazy erosion, producing perfect holes.
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Below is a map to show you just were Royal Golf Dar Es Salam is.  Stay tuned for a more in-depth review and more photos!
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HOG World Tour Morocco

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, November 18th, 2016
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Greetings from Rabat, Morocco. The HOG World Tour is here discovering what a great place to visit Morocco is, and to show the world that there is some great golf to be played here. For those who aren’t quite sure where Morocco is (I wasn’t sure either), the country is located in the north west corner of the African continent.

One highlight from today was my first visit ever to a mosque.
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It has been an extremely long 2.5 days. I’ve had two red-eye flights and a 13 hour layover in NYC. I’m super tired. Today was a settle in day, and touring day for the city of Rabat. Tomorrow is the first round of golf. This is a quick check-in. I will be posting much more here and on Twitter and Facebook about this Morocco trip, so tune in.

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