A colourful bed of flowers, an imposing wooden doorway set into a white wall crowned with tiles:Welcome to the Mohammedia Royal Golf Club.

Between avenues of pines and eucalyptus, the first fairway is a ceremonious procession into...Scotland! For that is where you might be (except for the temperature) once you are on the second hole; a wild sea, white dunes, pink laurel bushes, gorse and acacias. At the ninth you return to the fragrant maritime pines for an exceptionally pretty back nine.

“A game of two halves” - both equally enjoyable. Easy walking. 43 miles south of Rabat.