Golf Holidays in Mauritius

For a small island, Mauritius has an unusually deep bench of championship golf, broadly ten or eleven 18-hole layouts plus a handful of 9-hole courses, built by name designers including Ernie Els, Bernhard Langer, Peter Matkovich, Rodney Wright and Open champion Louis Oosthuizen. The courses we arrange span every corner of the island and every mood of the game, from lagoon-side resort play to highland holes carved through tea plantations.

Anahita Golf Course on the east coast was designed by South African major champion Ernie Els, opened in 2008, and plays as a par 72 over roughly 7,400 yards from the championship tees. Its signature is the water: six of its holes skirt the edge of the largest lagoon in Mauritius. Over on the west coast at Tamarin Bay, Tamarina Golf Club was laid out by Rodney Wright, opened in October 2006, and runs to a par-72 of about 7,524 yards beneath the Rempart Mountain, giving it a mountain-and-sea backdrop that’s distinctive among the island’s courses.

In the south-west at Bel Ombre, the Heritage Le Chateau course was designed by Peter Matkovich, opened in 2004 and plays to a par 72 over about 6,505 metres, built around a 19th-century chateau and through mature centenary trees. It has been voted the Indian Ocean’s Best Golf Course at the World Golf Awards multiple years running. Heritage’s newer La Reserve Golf Links opened in December 2023 and is billed as the Indian Ocean’s first and only links-style championship course; it hosted the December 2025 AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.

Constance Belle Mare Plage gives you two contrasting 18s. The Legend, designed by Hugh Baiocchi and opened in 1994, is a par 72 of about 6,611 yards carved through wildlife-rich forest where deer and wild boar roam. The Links, by Rodney Wright with golfing commentator Peter Alliss, is a par 71 of about 6,518 yards. Inland in the south, Avalon Golf Estate (Peter Matkovich, built 2015) is a par-72 of about 6,878 yards spread across 220 acres of tea plantations, rivers and ravines. And in the north, Mont Choisy Le Golf, also a Matkovich design, opened in October 2017, is the only 18-hole championship course in the north, with a par-three 15th played across wetland to an island green framed by an old stone sugar-mill chimney.

Golf has deep roots here, too. The game dates to 1844, when the Mauritius (Gymkhana) Club laid out its course at Vacoas, reputedly the oldest course in the Southern Hemisphere and the fourth-oldest in the world after Scotland, England and India.

Where you base yourself shapes the trip. Mauritius’ golf splits into three broad zones, each with its own character, its own driving time from the airport and its own feel in the wind. The airport sits in the south-east, so the south-west resorts are the shortest transfer and the east coast the longest.

The honest caveat: in July and August expect windy conditions, especially on the east coast where many of the courses sit. Anahita and Belle Mare Plage catch the south-east trade winds in mid-winter, so if you’re travelling in those two months, west-coast Tamarina or a northern base near Mont Choisy will usually play more comfortably.

Mauritius has two seasons: a warm, humid summer from November to April and a cooler, drier winter from June to September, with no true monsoon. For golf, the dry winter wins. The best window to play is May to October, when average temperatures sit between roughly 24°C and 27°C with very little rain, and October is widely considered the single best month to visit and tends to be the driest.

“The best window to play golf in Mauritius is May to October during the dry season, when average temperatures sit between roughly 24°C and 27°C with very little rainfall.”BestGolfMauritius.com

The numbers back this up. Average daytime highs run from 30°C in January down to 25°C in July and August, climbing back through 26°C in September and 27°C in October. Rainfall tells the clearer story: it is heaviest from January to March (around 375mm in January, 368mm in February, 269mm in March) and lightest in September and October (about 61mm and 59mm). The south-east trade winds blow year-round and stop the island ever feeling too muggy, which is why the cooler dry-season months stay perfectly warm for golf rather than cold.

One date for the diary: tropical cyclones affecting Mauritius occur from January to March, bringing very heavy rain, which is the main reason we steer keen golfers towards the May-to-October half of the year. You can dig deeper in our guide to the best time to play golf in Mauritius.

Golf Planet Holidays sells Mauritius as a ground-only arrangement, resort, golf and transfers, with flights an optional ATOL-protected add-on where you ask us to include them, rather than a fixed part of the package. That keeps your itinerary flexible, since plenty of golfers prefer to use their own airline points or fly from a regional airport.

If you do add flights, the route is straightforward. Direct non-stop services from London Gatwick to Mauritius take roughly 11 hours 40 minutes to 12 hours 30 minutes, covering around 6,091 miles, flown year-round by Air Mauritius and British Airways with about nine departures a week from London as of June 2026. Every UK arrival lands at the island’s single international gateway, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (MRU) at Plaine Magnien in the south-east, about 48km from Port Louis.

From the airport, the road transfer to the south-west golf resorts at Bel Ombre (Heritage Le Telfair and Heritage Awali) is around 50-52 minutes, while the east-coast heartland at Belle Mare is roughly 60-65 minutes. Mauritius runs on UTC+4 all year, so it sits 3 hours ahead of the UK in summer (BST) and 4 hours ahead in winter, a gentle time shift that makes the long-haul jet lag easier to shrug off than most. The local currency is the Mauritian rupee (MUR, symbol Rs).

Our Mauritius golf vacation guide covers the practical planning in more detail.

We refer to resorts by name because the live prices and full details sit on each venue’s own card below, but here’s how the bases line up. Tamarina Golf & Spa Resort puts you on the more sheltered west coast at the foot of the course’s mountain backdrop. The Bay Club at Anahita sits on the east coast beside Ernie Els’ lagoon-side layout. In the south-west at Bel Ombre, Heritage Le Telfair Golf & Wellness Resort and Heritage Awali Golf & Spa Resort share access to the multi-award-winning Le Chateau and the new La Reserve links, with the shortest airport transfer of the golf bases. And on the east coast, Constance Belle Mare Plage gives you two full 18-hole courses, the Legend and the Links, on a single estate.

Ground-only stays lead in from around £650pp (≈ €745) (≈ $855) (≈ CA$1,215) (≈ AU$1,225) (≈ NZ$1,495) (≈ CHF 685) as of 2026, and a Mauritius trip works beautifully as a twin-base itinerary, a few nights on the west or south-west, a few more on the east, so you can play across the island without a long daily drive. Tell us how many rounds you want and we’ll build the routing around your golf.

Mauritius is a deliberate high-end golf destination: roughly 5% of the island’s visitors, about 60,000 a year, come specifically for the courses, and the resorts are built to that standard. It rewards a particular kind of trip. Couples do especially well here, where one partner can play a championship round while the other has the beach, the spa or the lagoon, our guides to Mauritius golf and beach holidays for couples and golf holidays for couples in Mauritius go into this in detail.

It works equally well for societies and groups who want a genuine bucket-list golf week with serious courses and serious downtime. See our pages on golf society trips to Mauritius and group golf holidays in Mauritius, or, if you’re travelling alone, solo golf holidays in Mauritius. And if you’re weighing the Indian Ocean against the alternative long-haul option, our comparison of golf in Mauritius or South Africa lays out the trade-offs.

“Roughly 5% of visitors, about 60,000 a year, come for the golf courses, and the island is actively promoting its courses to attract affluent travellers.”ATTA Travel, Mauritius 2025 arrivals report

The one group it suits less well is anyone after a budget golf break. This is a long-haul, premium-resort destination, so the value is in the quality of the experience rather than the headline price.