The Arnie Awards
Jim Nantz, Darius Rucker and David Love III continue the Palmer tradition.
Golfers will drive beneath the clubhouse to find the bag drop before parking and entering the clubhouse through the upstairs lobby for check-in and directions to the locker rooms. Inside you’ll find the usual amenities including a sauna and steam room, the latter perhaps to ease any aches and pains after a session in the members’ only gym next door, kitted out with the latest, touch-screen TechnoGym equipment which can track your progress and build a profile to ensure you get in even better golf shape.
On the way out to the buggy drop, there is a fully- stocked Golf Shop offering the latest Ping rental clubs for visitors. A nice touch in the new golf carts is a USB port to charge your inevitably flat range finder or cellphone – you’ll want plenty of battery to snap shots of all the memorable holes you’re about to tackle.
A short drive from the clubhouse you’ll find The Golf Academy at Dubai Hills G.C. set to open in January. It will come complete with two, roller- doored, indoor teaching studios that open out onto the range, like the one at Troon Golf sister property Arabian Ranches Golf Club. Already in play are two fantastic short game areas, a driving range ring-fenced by a neat little par-3 course and arguably the biggest practice putting green in the Middle East - all 1780 square metres of it. Members should have no issue with their lag putting at Dubai Hills G.C., plus a ready escape from any blessed duck hooks in The Duck Hook.