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If you are a golf enthusiast, you have come to the right place! Muscat has four international standard golf courses-three of them with stunning sea views and all with the Al Hajar mountain range providing a dramatic backdrop. Choose from Muscat Hills Golf Course (Oman’s first 18 hole grassed course), Ghala Golf Course (18 holes set in a valley below the Hajar mountains where the birdlife is all that might interrupt play), Al Mouj Golf (Oman’s first links style 18-hole championship golf course designed by Greg Norman and built on a two kilometres stretch of pristine coastline), and Jebel Sifah (a nine-hole golf course opened in 2018 that can also be played as a varied 18 hole course, with breathtaking views out to sea and across to the mountain range.  

Rajan Sehgal, President, Indian Golf Tourism Association (IGTA) and MC member of TAAI, believes that golf tourism in India will be in great demand after the monsoons are over. “The first thing that opened after Unlock 1.0 were the golf courses. They opened all over the world. Even the ones in Delhi-NCR are full. This is because they offer open spaces, give us a chance to connect with nature, and physical distancing is maintained. I think, golf tourism in India will be in great demand after the monsoons  because Indian golfers, who used to travel to Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam for golf, will now travel within India. It will give a big boost as Delhi golfers will travel to Rajasthan, South India, and Central India to play golf. We had a serious session with the advisor to Governor of Kashmir, and we requested him to open tourism at the earliest in the UT, so that we can attract a lot of visitors from across India to Jammu & Kashmir,” he said.