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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.