Yas Links celebrates first birthday
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Yas Links Abu Dhabi, the UAE’s newest golf course, celebrates its first anniversary this week with a top ranking in Abu Dhabi daily, The National. In the initial ten months since its opening, Yas Links was recognised as the ‘best golf course in the Middle East’ by Golf Course Architecture magazine, classified 5th in a Golf Magazine USA ‘Top 10 New International Golf Courses of 2010’ ranking, and placed at No. 2 in the Top 10 ‘professional-level’ Golf Courses of the World classification. Chris White, GM of developer Aldar Properties (Golf Division), said: “We couldn’t have asked for a better first year. We have been fortunate to have such a great product to work with – Kyle Phillips designed a spectacular course that has made headlines around the world as a golfing masterpiece that offers a very unique experience to its visitors.” Yas Links is the first project in the region for Kyle Phillips, who didn’t just design the course, but was also responsible for shaping the three-kilometre long coastline. During the construction stage he employed some of the 1.8 million m3 (cubic metres) of fill dredged from the sea to construct the golf course, creating dramatic links holes with no less than nine seashore greens.
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