The Best Golf Resorts in Rabat
An honest word first: Rabat has no true stay and play golf resort. What the capital has instead is one of the great golf estates anywhere, Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, 45 Robert Trent Jones Sr holes in a cork oak forest 15 minutes from town, with the five star Sofitel Rabat Jardin des Roses close enough to function as its hotel. Golfers who want fairways outside the bedroom window pair the capital with Mazagan Beach and Golf Resort at El Jadida, Gary Player's Atlantic links around two and a half hours down the coast. The season runs October to May. Here are the six that matter, ranked.
Photograph: Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, via Google
How we chose
This list was researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk, and every designer, opening year and fee on it was checked against club and tournament sources in June 2026. Because Rabat sells almost nothing under the phrase golf resort, we ranked the way a traveling golfer actually experiences the place: course quality first, then how good the bed within reach of it is, then how cleanly each venue fits a capital based trip. The first two entries share one royal estate and a hotel pairing rather than an on site lodge, the third is the one genuine destination resort within an easy drive, and the rest are day venues we rate honestly as such. Golfers who insist on sleeping over the 18th green should plan Rabat as the golf rich city stop of a wider swing; our Morocco golf holidays page and 7 day Morocco golf itinerary show how the pieces join.
Two practical notes that apply across the list. Moroccan clubs publish fees in dirhams and quote the caddie separately; caddies are customary, inexpensive and genuinely useful on tree lined layouts, a convention we cover club by club in our Morocco green fees guide. And the Atlantic coast season is long: October to May is prime, summer is playable on the ocean but hot inland. All fees below carry their season and year and are indicative rather than guaranteed, so always confirm directly before booking.
The best around Rabat, ranked
Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Red Course
The reason golfers come to Rabat at all. King Hassan II gave Robert Trent Jones Sr a 440 hectare cork oak forest south of the capital and a free hand, and the Red Course that opened in 1971 is widely rated among the best things Jones ever built: a par 73 of 7,329 yards cut tight through the oaks, with the famous par 3 ninth played across a lake to an island green. It is the longtime host of the Trophee Hassan II, played here on the PGA Tour Champions in February 2025 with Ernie Els and Colin Montgomerie in the field, and Cabell Robinson refreshed the greens and bunkering in 2016. There is no hotel on the estate; the five star Sofitel Rabat Jardin des Roses, set in seven hectares of Andalusian gardens about 15 minutes away, is the pairing every Morocco golf operator uses. The club's published 2025 public green fee is 1,200 dirhams for 18 holes, with caddies at 200 and carts at 400, indicative only; always confirm directly before booking. Our verdict: a top tier championship course at mid table money, and reason enough to route any Morocco trip through the capital.
Access: public year round; book ahead around the Trophee Hassan II. Check Rabat hotel rates.
Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Blue and Green Courses
The rest of the royal estate, and the reason a Rabat stop comfortably fills two or three days of golf. The Blue Course runs through the same cork oak forest as the Red, drawn as part of the original Trent Jones commission, shorter and friendlier but still a proper 18 with water in play, and the 9 hole Green Course makes an ideal arrival day loosener or a second loop after lunch. The club's published 2025 public rates are 850 dirhams for 18 holes on the Blue and 300 dirhams for nine on the Green, with the same modest caddie and cart fees as the Red, indicative only; always confirm directly before booking. Played as a 45 hole package from a Souissi hotel, the complex gives you more quality golf per night than most full resorts. Our verdict: the Blue in the morning, the Red the next day, and you have the best two day golf stop in northern Morocco.
Access: public; the Blue takes tee times around member play. Check tee times.
Mazagan Beach and Golf Resort
The genuine article. If the Rabat question is really a stay and play question, the answer sits about two and a half hours down the coast past Casablanca: Gary Player's links style par 72, opened in 2009 along the Atlantic dunes at El Jadida and stretching beyond 7,400 yards, one of the longest courses in Morocco, with the ocean wind doing the defending. The course is the centerpiece of a sprawling beach resort with a hotel, spa, casino and a long ride of sand, and golf and stay packages make consecutive days on the links simple to arrange. Visitor green fees are published in dirhams with a meaningful discount for resort guests, and golf inclusive packages are the smart way to buy it; rates move by season, so always confirm directly before booking. Our verdict: the one true golf resort within reach of the capital, and the natural beach finish to a Rabat golf week.
Access: public; resort guests get preferred times and packages. Check stay and play rates.
Bahia Golf Beach
The quiet seaside alternative. Bahia Golf Beach runs its 18 holes, a par 72 designed by Cabell B. Robinson, the same architect who renovated the Dar Es Salam Red, through a beach residential development at Bouznika, roughly halfway down the coast road between Rabat and Casablanca. The setting is relaxed, the golf honest, and the drive from the capital short enough that it slots into a Rabat week as the change of scenery day. Lodging within the development is residential rather than hotel based, so treat it as a day venue and confirm current visitor arrangements and the rate sheet with the club before you commit a morning. Our verdict: the best supporting round on the coast road, worth the detour when the Dar Es Salam courses are busy.
Access: public tee times available; weekdays are quietest. Check tee times.
Royal Golf Anfa Mohammedia
The history round. The Mohammedia course was first laid out in the mid 1920s by the Biarritz professional Pierre Hirigoyen and later revised by the French architect Hugues Lambert, which makes it one of the oldest layouts in Morocco, a compact par 72 of about 5,870 meters threading cork oaks and eucalyptus beside the sea in the port town of Mohammedia, between Rabat and Casablanca. Nobody will mistake it for a championship test after the Red, but the old shaded corridors, the seaside town setting and the unhurried club atmosphere are exactly what a 36 hole week needs in the middle. Green fees are modest and published in dirhams; confirm the current sheet with the club before booking. Our verdict: the charm pick, best played as the easy walking day between the big assignments.
Access: visitors welcome; no hotel on site. Check tee times.
Bouznika Bay Golf Club
The bonus nine. Bouznika Bay is a 9 hole Robert Von Hagge design on the same stretch of coast as Bahia Golf Beach, the standout a par 5 third guarded by a clover of three bunkers, and it earns its place here as the short afternoon loop when you are already down the coast road. Von Hagge holes by the Atlantic for a fraction of resort money is not an offer to refuse out of hand. The club operates within a beach resort community whose facilities run seasonal hours, so confirm current opening, visitor access and rates directly with the club before making the detour. Our verdict: not a destination, but a pleasant second nine on a Bahia day, and the cheapest Von Hagge you will ever play.
Access: confirm current visitor arrangements with the club. Check tee times.
Designers, opening years, host events and fees verified June 2026 by the GolfForKings editorial desk from club, tournament and booking sources, including the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam published 2025 rate card. Rates shown carry their season and year and are indicative only; always confirm directly with each club before booking. Where a detail could not be verified, we say so and recommend confirming with the club.
Plan a Rabat golf trip
Tell us roughly when and who is traveling. One concierge books the Dar Es Salam tee times, pairs the right Rabat hotel, sequences the coast road days and the Mazagan finish, and prices the trip honestly. We reply within one working day, with no obligation.
Building the trip
The shape of the week writes itself: two or three nights at a Souissi hotel for 36 or 45 holes across the Dar Es Salam Red and its Blue and Green stablemates, a coast road day at Bahia or Mohammedia, then two nights at Mazagan for back to back links rounds before flying out of Casablanca. From there Morocco opens up fast: the desert and palm grove golf of Marrakech, with Assoufid, Al Maaden and the historic Royal Golf Marrakech ranked in our list of the best golf courses in Marrakech, or the ocean cliffs of Tazegzout among the best golf courses in Agadir. The national picture lives in the best golf courses in Morocco and the Morocco destination hub, with the Marrakech and Agadir city hubs one click deeper. Weighing the country against its rivals, our Morocco vs Turkey comparison settles the usual debate. When you are ready, browse Marrakech golf holidays, all inclusive golf in Morocco or the 6 day Morocco golf itinerary, or let plan my trip put the whole thing in one brief.
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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Courses, designers, fees and access verified June 2026. Last reviewed: June 2026. See how we rank.