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Golf Courses of Kenya
NAIROBI Karen Golf Club Address: P.O. Box 24816 Nairobi Holes: 18 Yardage: 6893 Par: 72 Telephone: 884089, Fax: 884088 A very scenic championship course next to the house of Karen Blixen - the author of "Out of Africa". Muthaiga Golf Club Address: P.O. Box 41651 Nairobi Holes: 18 Yardage: 6676 Par: 71 Telephone: 762414, Fax: 761268 Home of the Kenya Open Golf Championship - part of the European PGA. Past winners include Ballesteros, Woosnam and Canizaes. Railway Golf Club Address: P.O. Box 40476 Nairobi Holes: 19 Telephone: 728920 Royal Nairobi Golf Club Address: P.O. Box 40221 Nairobi Holes: 18 Yardage: 7021 Par: 72 Telephone: 725768 Kenya's oldest, founded in 1906, it reciprocates with all other "Royal" clubs worldwide. Windsor Golf & Country Club Address: P.O. Box 45587, Nairobi Holes: 18 Yardage: 6571 Par: 72 Telephone: 862300, Fax: 802322 The latest addition to 18 hole golf courses in East Africa, it boasts lush, springy fairways, island greens, attractive challenging waterhazards and big beautiful American-style bunkers. Limuru Country Club Holes: 18 Yardage: 6519 Par: 71 Amidst tea and coffee plantations, 40 minutes from Nairobi with the most beautiful fairways. Sigona Golf Club Holes: 18 Yardage: 6597 Par 71 At 6500 feet, a green and hilly championship course outside Nairobi. Nyali Golf Club Holes: 18 Yardage: 6510 Par: 71 With a new fairway watering system - nicer than ever on Kenya's North Coast. Leisure Golf Club Holes: 18 Yardage: 5833 Par: 72 The newest golfcourse in Kenya located on the South Coast. It opened its first 14 holes in 1995 and is a first class golf course. The finishing hole is a 547 yard par five dogleg, with a lake that will be stocked with live crocodiles. Nakuru Golf Club Holes: 18 Yardage: 6802 Par: 73 Located on the extinct Menengai Crater - this course has stunning views of the lake with its millions of flamingoes. Nyeri Sports Club Holes: 9 Yardage: 3316 Par: 33 A difficult mountainous course next to the Outspan Hotel - home of Lord Baden Powell - the founder of the Boy Scouts. Thika Sports Club Holes: 18 Yardage: 6724 Par: 72 Set near the Thika Falls that were part of the scenery in the Tarzan movies. Undilating greens and fairways. Opened in 1932.
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