Abu Dhabi Golf Club receives Business Traveller Middle East Award

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The Abu Dhabi Golf Club, one of the Middle East's most distinguished golf courses, has won the ‘Best Golf Course in the Middle East' at the Business Traveller Middle East 2009 awards ceremony.

The event, attended by over 400 international and regional guests across the business travel industry, was recently held in Dubai coinciding with the region's travel and tourism exhibition, Arabian Travel Market.

The golf course and clubhouse, owned by Tourism Development '&' Investment Company (TDIC) and managed by Troon Golf, was voted by readers of Business Traveller magazine for its world-class 27-hole championship course stretching over 162 hectares of undulating terrain with ornamental trees and seven spectacular saltwater lakes.

Abu Dhabi Golf Club is the current host venue of the European Tour-sanctioned Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, which hosts a recognised field of the world's leading golfers. The event also received an award for the second year running as What's On magazine's ‘Best Sporting Event of the Year' in Abu Dhabi.

The Abu Dhabi Golf Club is renowned for its exceptional golf course quality and design, high agronomical standards and all year round course condition and consistency. Recently, the golf club garnered the ‘Best Golf Course in the Middle East' at the Middle East Golfer Awards 2009 ceremony.

Built in 1985, the iconic clubhouse is currently undergoing major refurbishment of its ground floor, Spike Lounge, golf shop and locker rooms, which will all be completed by fourth quarter of 2009. In addition, over 120,000 palm trees have been planted on the course. The Westin Hotel '&' Spa, scheduled for completion by fourth quarter of 2010, will represent the hospitality heart of the Abu Dhabi Golf Resort which overlooks the spectacular course. – Emirates News Agency, WAM

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