A golf course set on the arid, dusty dunes of Dubai would have seemed like a mirage not so many years ago. The Ranches has no water hazards or bunkers, just the desert itself.
If St Andrews is the home of golf, then the Majlis, with a clubhouse modelled on a village of Bedouin tents, can declare itself the birthplace of the game in the Gulf.
The Wadi by Faldo is a formidable test of golf and the six-time Major winner's infamous mean streak is unmistakably stamped on the minefield of wickedly placed bunkers.
