The Best Golf Courses in Marrakech

Few golf destinations frame the game quite like Marrakech. Here a tee shot is set against the snow-dusted High Atlas on one horizon and the red walls of an ancient imperial city on the other, with palm groves, olive trees and desert scrub filling the space between. The light is extraordinary, the welcome is warm, and the golf is far more accomplished than first-time visitors expect.

This is a city we know intimately, and one we love to build trips around. The courses below are the ones we return to time and again — each with its own character, its own kind of test, and its own way of making a round here feel like an occasion. Pair them with a riad in the medina or a serene resort on the Palmeraie, and you have the makings of a golf trip that lingers long after the final putt.

Assoufid Golf Club is, for many of our golfers, the most memorable course in Marrakech. Routed through raw desert terrain, its fairways are framed by undulating sand, native scrub and dramatic elevation changes, with the snow-capped Atlas Mountains filling the horizon on a clear morning. There is a links-like honesty to it: the wind matters, the angles matter, and the lines you choose off the tee shape the entire hole.

This is a course for the golfer who relishes a thinking challenge and a sense of wild, sculpted landscape. Lower handicaps will love its precision and exposure; higher handicaps will simply find it one of the most beautiful places they have ever played. It pairs naturally with a refined base such as the Fairmont Royal Palm or a boutique riad, and is a centrepiece we build many Marrakech itineraries around.

Al Maaden Golf Club is a striking, contemporary parkland laid out around generous water features and dotted with monumental sculpture, all beneath that same Atlas skyline. It is exacting without being punishing — wide enough to enjoy, yet demanding enough to keep you honest around its lakes and greens. The aesthetic is modern and considered, and it photographs as beautifully as it plays.

The Montgomerie Marrakech, designed by Colin Montgomerie, is the strategist’s course. Smart bunkering, well-defended greens and a series of genuine risk-and-reward decisions reward the player who plots a way around rather than simply attacking. Together these two give a tailor-made trip real variety — one expansive and artistic, the other tight and tactical — and both sit within easy reach of the Palmeraie’s finest hotels.

For mature, manicured parkland golf, Royal Palm Golf Course is the city’s most polished address. Set within the Fairmont Royal Palm estate, it winds through established palms, olive groves and water, rewarding placement and touch over brute length — an elegant, resort-grade round that suits golfers of every standard. PalmGolf Marrakech Ourika Golf Club offers a similarly green, tree-lined experience a little further out, with the mountains drawing ever closer.

Pickalbatros Golf Club provides a relaxed, enjoyable test that pairs well with a more leisured itinerary, ideal for a gentler day between the city’s headline courses. Threaded together, these courses let us build a week that flexes from championship challenge to unhurried pleasure — exactly the balance most golf groups are looking for.

Marrakech’s great advantage is concentration: a clutch of genuinely distinctive courses within short transfers of one another, and accommodation to match every taste. We can base you on the tranquil Palmeraie at the Pickalbatros Hotel du Golf, the Iberostar Waves Club Palmeraie or the Mövenpick Hotel Mansour Eddahbi; in refined comfort at the Kenzi Menara Palace or the Hotel & Ryads Barrière Le Naoura near the medina; or in true sanctuary at the Fairmont Royal Palm.

Every itinerary is tailor-made — tee times, transfers, a guided afternoon in the souks, dinner in a hidden riad, perhaps a day in the Atlas foothills. Trips start from £478 per person, and from there the trip is shaped entirely around you. Our specialists know these courses, hotels and the rhythm of the city first-hand, and that is the difference between a good golf holiday and an unforgettable one.