Anahita – Golf Course Review

Location: Flacq District, Mauritius
Played: February 2026
Course Type: Parkland
Key Words: Rolling | Sand | Open

Golfer’s Tips

The practice facilities are excellent – the range, short game area and putting green are all first class.
The short ninth hole is not drivable owing to the ditch in running in front of the green, so perhaps lay far enough back to enable a fuller shot with more spin to hold the narrow putting surface.

Signature Holes

9th – an interesting short par four, with a trench that meanders down the centre of the fairway and in front of a narrow green with a steep run off to its rear.
18th – an excellent finishing hole which brings with it all of Anahita’s qualities. A par five that swoops around from left to right, with the ocean visible to the left, and then down to a green sitting in front of the clubhouse and behind plentiful bunkering.

Review:

Anahita provides exclusive resort golf on Mauritius, with an enjoyable parkland-style layout with a couple of real highlights.

Very much contrasting to some of its Mauritian peers, for example Ile aux Cerfs and the Legend course at Belle Mare Plage, Anahita is less of a tropical-style course and much more a traditional parkland layout. The course is notable for its sweeping, undulating land, but the real defence is the rolling greens and run off areas, and the vast number of strategically placed sand traps. For those familiar, think a tropical version of The Grove or Chart Hills.

Designed by Ernie Els to be open off the tee, with many tee box options available for all golfer abilities, the course starts with a mid-length par four, but the par five second is a nice longer hole over rolling terrain, and further interest is provided by some old stone wall that also features on a few others holes (which presumably earmarks the former usage of the land as a sugar plantation).

After a few more holes of the same ilk, with the ocean making a brief appearance on the summit of the green on the par five 4th, the downhill eighth hole is then a fine one-shot hole with the sea glistening beyond.

The ninth hole provides a nice change of pace to the other mid length holes, and a little more thought that perhaps Anahita could benefit from. A short par four of only around 300 yards, but with a snaking ditch that splits the fairway and circles across the front of its green, which itself has a steep drop off to a generous collection area for the overhit approach shot.

A highlight on the back nine is the longer par four fourteenth hole, which turns gradually left to right with the aforementioned stone walls diagonally bisecting the fairway on driver length. The green also sits diagonally, parallel with the wall just in front, making the shape and angle of your approach important.

The final two holes provide the postcard finish, with a reminder of where you are – a one-two punch of a par three played to a green with sea view beyond, followed by an excellent par 5 finisher with water left which sweeps round to the right and into a green that is well guarded by a vast sprawling bunker left.

Overall Anahita is a pleasant change-up from its smaller, more tropical compatriots, and there are a couple of real highlights that will last in the memory, but perhaps lacks the intrigue and ingenuity that could really push the golfing experience further.