Dubai Creek Championship Course
Dubai Creek Championship Course: Karl Litten (1993). Par 71, 7,009 yards. Nacho Elvira won the 2026 Dubai Invitational here with 274 (−10).
Dubai Creek Championship Course: Karl Litten (1993). Par 71, 7,009 yards. Nacho Elvira won the 2026 Dubai Invitational here with 274 (−10).
Dubai Creek Championship Course: Karl Litten (1993). Par 71, 7,009 yards. Nacho Elvira won the 2026 Dubai Invitational here with 274 (−10).
Updated October 24, 2026
4 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
DP World Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Nacho Elvira | 274 (−10) | by 1 stroke |
| 2024 | Tommy Fleetwood | 265 (−19) | by 1 stroke |
European Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | José Cóceres | 274 (−14) | by 2 strokes |
| 1999 | David Howell | 275 (−13) | by 4 strokes |
The club opened in January 1993 with a party for more than a thousand VIP guests headlined by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, at which Shirley Bassey sang "Hey Big Spender". Two days earlier Isao Aoki, Nick Faldo, Ernie Els and Seve Ballesteros played the back nine in the opening Dubai Creek Challenge, a curtain-raiser to the 1993 Dubai Desert Classic.
Source: Golf Digest Middle East
The Dubai Desert Classic left its home on the Majlis for the Creek in 1999 and 2000, intended to show the world that Dubai had more than one world-class course and to put the new Dubai skyline on television. David Howell (1999) and Jose Coceres (2000) won there.
Source: Golf Digest Middle East · Wikipedia: Dubai Desert Classic
Brian Johnson's clubhouse is based on the lateen sail of traditional racing dhows and appears on the UAE's currency.
Source: Golf Digest Middle East
At the par-4 6th the medal and regular tees sit on a floating platform about ten metres out in the Creek, so players drive back to the mainland.
Source: Dubai Golf - Creek Championship Course hole guide · Top 100 Golf Courses
The water surrounding the island green of the par-5 13th is not obvious from the fairway, tempting players to go for it in two.
The club housed the first inland marina in the region and the first chandlery in Dubai.
Source: Golf Digest Middle East
Karl Litten
major redevelopment of course (14-month project; added par-3 course, range, hotel integration)
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dubai Invitational 15–18 January 2026 | Nacho Elvira | DP World Tour |
| 2024 | Dubai Invitational 11–14 January 2024 | Tommy Fleetwood | DP World Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The routing and ground are drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
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