From Casablanca’s Urban Golf to Mohammedia’s Atlantic Links

Casablanca and Mohammedia, some thirty kilometres apart, share the heritage of the Royal Golf Anfa Mohammedia, which brings together two courses with distinctly different atmospheres. In Casablanca, on the edge of the city, the course designed in 1942 around the inner grounds of a racecourse offers a nine-hole layout that is both technical and fast-paced, where concentration and precision are essential. In Mohammedia, the course, inaugurated in 1930, opens onto wider natural spaces where the ocean defines the horizon and sets the rhythm.

This Atlantic course, located on the outskirts of Mohammedia, is a links in the Scottish tradition, a coastal landscape where fairways follow the natural contours between dunes, sea and eucalyptus groves. Swept by prevailing winds, this links, known as the “Scottish course of Morocco”, challenges players and regularly hosts closely contested tournaments.