Tunisia lends itself to a golf trip between autumn and spring, about two hours' flight from Paris. The courses follow the Mediterranean: north of Tunis, The Residence Golf Course, by Robert Trent Jones II, plays between the sea and a salt lake, and Golf de Carthage, founded in 1927, is the country's oldest club; Hammamet lines up the Yasmine and the two Citrus courses, all by Ronald Fream, among olive trees and pines; the Sahel brings together the two El Kantaoui courses, near Sousse, and the Palm Links and Flamingo at Monastir. Further south, Djerba has 27 holes by Martin Hawtree among palms, water features and the sea.
Spring, from March to May, and autumn, in October and November, are the best seasons; in Djerba and Sousse, February is already pleasant. Winter remains playable, cooler and wetter; summer is hot and only playable early in the morning. We arrange tailor-made trips there: reserved tee times, private transfers, seafront hotels or characterful guesthouses, and outings to the medinas and Roman sites between rounds.
Djerba, the largest island in North Africa, in south-eastern Tunisia, has only one golf club, but it has 27 holes: three nines designed by Martin Hawtree and opened in 1995, La Mer, Les Palmiers and Les Acacias, in the Midoun tourist zone. Golfers come to play in the sun while Europe is cold, with a calm, white island all around. The best periods run from February to May and from October to November.
Hammamet, on the south-east coast of Cap Bon in Tunisia, has three 18-hole courses designed by Ronald Fream: La Forêt and Les Oliviers at Golf Citrus, the country's first 45-hole complex, and the Yasmine Golf Club, opened in 1991. Golfers come to play round after round among pinewoods and olive groves, then return to the medina and the beach in the evening, ideally in spring (March to May) and autumn (October and November).
Monastir, on the coast of the Tunisian Sahel, has two 18-hole courses a quarter of an hour from town: Flamingo, designed by Ronald Fream on an olive-covered hill above the sebkha, and Palm Links, a flat Chris Pitman layout facing the hotels of Skanès. The two courses at El Kantaoui, in Sousse, are half an hour away. The best seasons run from March to May and from October to November.
Golf in Sousse, on the coast of the Tunisian Sahel, means El Kantaoui, a 36-hole complex a quarter of an hour north of town: the Sea Course, opened in 1980 and host of the first Tunisian Open in 1982, and the hillier Panorama, added in the 1990s. Golfers come to play two courses carried through by the architect Ronald Fream and to explore a World Heritage medina, ideally from February to May and in October and November.
Tunis has two 18-hole courses north of the city, about twenty minutes from each other: The Residence Golf Course, a par 72 designed by Robert Trent Jones II between the sea and a salt lake near Gammarth, and Golf de Carthage, the country's oldest club, founded in 1927 at La Soukra. Golfers come to pair two very different courses with the medina, Carthage and Sidi Bou Said, ideally from March to May and in October and November.
