Jolie Ville golf course at Sharm El Sheikh, lakes and palms between the Sinai desert and the Red Sea
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The Best Golf Courses in Sharm El Sheikh

Let us be straight with you, because most lists are not: Sharm El Sheikh has exactly one championship golf course, and it is a good one. The Jolie Ville's lake fed par 72 sits between the Sinai mountains and the Red Sea at about 85 to 100 euros a round. So this ranking does what a traveling golfer actually needs: it ranks the Sharm course honestly, then the four Red Sea rounds worth pairing with it, from the Sinai's other course at Taba to the Hurghada corridor across the water.

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By the GolfForKings editorial desk · Editorial policy · Last reviewed June 2026

Photograph: the Jolie Ville golf course, Sharm El Sheikh, by Yousef Elroby, via Google

How we ranked them

We rank on the quality and character of the golf first, then on what each course adds to a Red Sea week: setting, conditioning, the welcome, and what the fee buys. Sharm itself contributes one entry, because Sharm has one course; the rest of the list covers the rounds a golfer based in Sharm genuinely combines with it, either up the Gulf of Aqaba coast at Taba or across the water in the Hurghada corridor, where Egypt keeps its real golf cluster. Every fee below is an indicative 2026 figure from current booking and course listing sources; always confirm directly before booking. Our Sharm green fees guide breaks down the costs in detail.

The structural point for trip planners: Sharm is not a golf destination with a beach, it is a world class diving and beach destination with one good course attached. That changes the math in your favor. Three relaxed rounds on the Jolie Ville cost under 300 euros total, the dawn tee time leaves the whole afternoon for Ras Mohammed or the Tiran straits, and if the group wants a true multi course week, the Egypt guide shows how the other shore delivers it.

The ranking

01

Jolie Ville Golf and Resort

Sanford Golf Design · Naama Bay, Sharm El Sheikh · par 72, 18 lakes · indicative 85 to 100 euros, 9 holes about 65

Sharm's course, and a genuine oddity worth the detour: a fully grassed championship par 72 fed by 18 artificial lakes, wedged between bare Sinai desert and the Red Sea at Naama Bay. Sanford Golf Design laid it out in the late 1990s and the Pickalbatros group took over in January 2025, keeping the standard Egyptian resort model: visitors pay roughly 85 to 100 euros for 18 holes, hotel guests less, and about 65 euros buys the 9 hole late afternoon round once the heat breaks. Bermuda fairways, constant water, mountains behind every green. As the only golf in a world class diving town, it overdelivers.

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02

Taba Heights Golf Resort

John Sanford, 2006 · Taba, Sinai · par 72, 7,100 yards · resort course above the Gulf of Aqaba

The Sinai's other course, and the wilder one. John Sanford returned to the peninsula in 2006 to build a 7,100 yard par 72 that tumbles from desert foothills toward the Gulf of Aqaba at the Taba Heights resort, with Saudi Arabia and Jordan filling the horizon across water that seems painted. It is a proper championship scale layout in a place golf has no business existing, kept alive by the resort's hotels, and tee sheets are rarely troubled. Taba sits at the far northern end of the Sinai coast from Sharm, so treat it as an overnight rather than a day trip and let the drive show you the emptiest coastline on the Red Sea.

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03

Golf El Gouna

Fred Couples design · El Gouna, Hurghada corridor · lagoon town flagship

The best reason to fly across the water. El Gouna is the Red Sea's most polished resort town, a lagoon laced private development north of Hurghada, and its Fred Couples designed course is the flagship round of the whole coast: generous desert fairways threaded between lagoons, mountains inland, kite surfers beyond the rough. The town itself seals the ranking, because evenings here, marinas, restaurants, an actual social scene, beat anything golfers find in Naama Bay. A 45 minute flight or an overnight ferry hop separates the two shores, which is why we cost the corridor as its own trip on the Egypt golf holidays page.

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04

The Cascades, Soma Bay

Gary Player design · Soma Bay peninsula, south of Hurghada · links style desert golf with sea on three sides

Gary Player's Red Sea statement. The Cascades spreads across the Soma Bay peninsula south of Hurghada with sea on three sides, a links leaning desert design where wind off the water does the defending and the closing holes run hard against the shore. It is widely treated as the championship test of the Egyptian coast, the round serious golfers build the corridor trip around, and the attached thalasso resort makes it the natural splurge night of the week. Pair it with El Gouna and Madinat Makadi and the Hurghada shore suddenly looks like a real golf destination, which is exactly the comparison our best courses in Egypt ranking draws out.

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05

Madinat Makadi Golf Resort

Makadi Bay, Hurghada corridor · 18 hole championship resort course · the value play of the coast

The corridor's value round. Madinat Makadi anchors the Makadi Bay resort zone south of Hurghada with a full 18 hole championship layout, broad and well watered through the desert with the kind of forgiving width that suits the mixed ability buddies trip, plus academy holes for the beginners in the group. Fees undercut the marquee names up the coast, all inclusive hotels surround the property, and transfers from Hurghada airport are short. It will not win the week's architecture debate against the Cascades; it will win the week's best value vote, and on a three round corridor swing that matters.

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Editorial ranking by the GolfForKings desk, June 2026. Fees are indicative 2026 rates from current booking and course listing sources; always confirm directly before booking. Check tee time availability.

Building the trip

For a Sharm based week, the formula is simple: two or three dawn rounds at the Jolie Ville, reef afternoons, and a free day for Ras Mohammed. Golf first groups should flip the geography and base in the Hurghada corridor instead, playing El Gouna, the Cascades and Madinat Makadi from one base; the Egypt golf holidays page costs both shapes and the Egypt destination guide adds Cairo's historic clubs for the stopover. Budget detail lives in the Sharm green fees guide. If you are comparison shopping winter sun, Egypt vs Tunisia settles the North Africa question and the Marrakesh fee guide covers the other classic November to March escape.

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Tell us your dates and group, and one concierge weighs Sharm against the Hurghada corridor, books the rounds and the reef days, and costs the whole trip to the head. No obligation.

Sharm El Sheikh golf questions

How many golf courses does Sharm El Sheikh have?

One that matters: the 18 hole, par 72 championship course at the Jolie Ville Golf and Resort in Naama Bay, designed by Sanford Golf Design, open since the late 1990s and run by the Pickalbatros group since January 2025. That makes Sharm a one course destination, ideal for a diving or beach holiday with serious golf attached rather than a multi course golf week.

How much does golf cost in Sharm El Sheikh?

Budget about 85 to 100 euros for 18 holes at the Jolie Ville championship course, with guests of the attached hotels paying toward the bottom of that range and around 65 euros for 9 holes. Carts and clubs are extra and modest by resort standards. Rates are indicative for 2026 and move with season and operator; always confirm directly before booking.

Should golfers choose Sharm El Sheikh or Hurghada?

If the trip is golf first, choose the Hurghada corridor: El Gouna's Fred Couples designed course, the Gary Player designed Cascades at Soma Bay and Madinat Makadi give a week of variety Sharm cannot match. Sharm wins when one excellent course is enough and the diving, the flight price or the family resort scene is doing the heavy lifting.

When is the best time to play golf in Sharm El Sheikh?

October to May, the European winter sun window, when mornings are warm rather than brutal and the tee sheet is at its busiest. High summer is playable only at dawn, with daytime heat well past 35 C. Year round, the winning formula is an early tee time, lunch at the clubhouse, and the reef in the afternoon.

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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Course facts and fees verified June 2026 from current booking and course listing sources; fees indicative, always confirm directly before booking. Last reviewed June 2026.