Sahara Golf and Country Club

The plant is in the background of a couple of the pictures. The dunes you see are very tall, 400 to 600 feet or so. It is 300 km of this kind of country to the nearest town.

Matt, from Calgary, Canada. Trying so hard his head is on fire!

Neil, from Johannesburg, South Africa. Great swing, never satisfied with that little fade. Holds the world record for consecutive practice sessios with at least one shank.

The Mosque is in the background.

Paul, from Aberdeen, Scotland. A solid 6 hdcp and a smooth swing.

A picture from the front of the tee box. You can see the pvc pipe outlining the "greens" and the tubing flagsticks.

Our Golf club has three active members with an international flavour. We were remarking the other day - three guys, three continents, hitting golf balls in the depths of the Sahara. Go figure.

This is a picture of the pool in the camp, in front of my room. The dune we climb is in the background.
The beach volleyball court. Tennis court below.

We have some recreation facilities here at the camp.

There is a swimming pool, tennis courts, beach volleyball, basketball hoop, a gym, billiards and foosball table, ping pong table, and a huge beach. One of my favorite activities here are the dune climb and the golf driving range.

We moved the driving range from the east side of the camp to the north side when the camp extension construction started. The new site is from an elevated concrete slab hitting into a small bowl backed by a dune ridge. We have three target greens made of 2" pvc pipe in a ring and flags sticks are 1/2" scrap stainless steel tubing at distances of 40, 125 and 165 yards. Our high quality improvised hitting mats are 1/2" rubber matting covered with a section of astroturf. Nothing is fancy but it works. There are a few of us that like to practice, we go out at lunchtime and hit our bucket of 80 balls or so then walk out and pick them up. It's a great incentive to hit them straight!