Hole 18 of 18 · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Hole 18 at Yas Links Golf Club

Par
5
Yards
646
Handicap
3
Bunkers, water
8

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Hole 18 aerial at Yas Links Golf Club
Map distances from 54 tee · 477 yds

The map's printed distances are measured from the 54 tee to the green; they do not move when you change tees. Your 74 yardage is in the tiles above.

Green size: 49 yds deep × 32 yds wide

Esri World Imagery · captured Oct 2025. Green at the top.

Where this map comes from

Satellite photo
Oct 2025
Esri World Imagery
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Yas Links is in Abu Dhabi, UAE; USGS 3DEP covers only the United States and returns NoData here, and no other reviewed terrain source covers the course.

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Hole 18 aerial at Yas Links Golf Club

The plan for No. 18

The play: A risk-and-reward par 5 finish along the shore. Par 5, men's stroke index 3 (74 646, 70 608, 66 589, 62 558, 54 477 yards). One of the few tour par 5s that plays over par, especially into a north-west wind.

Shot by shot

  1. Off the tee

    Two bays of the shore cut into the left side. A long central bunker splits the landing area: left of it is shorter but brings the sea in; right of it is the safe route.

  2. Approach & recovery

    On the second, the more of the bay you cut off, the shorter the shot, with the sea left all the way. The safe miss is right, into closely mown hollows. Tour: one of the few par 5s that plays over par, especially into a north-west wind (DP World Tour, 2025).

  3. On the green

    The mapped green is about 49 yards deep and 32 yards wide. The club: narrow and undulating, with water and sand left.

  4. Watch for

    • Sea along the left (two bays)
    • Long central fairway bunker
    • Water and bunkers left of the green
    • Hollows right and long

The green on No. 18

Mapped boundary
Wide × deepyards
31.6×49
Areasq ft
7,895
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Research notes

  • A narrow, undulating green on a point, with water and sand to the left and closely mown hollows to the right and long. (Hole 18)[1]
  • One of the few tour par 5s that plays over par, especially into a north-west wind. The fairway is nearly 80 yards wide with a small bunker in the middle: left of it is the risky route that can reach in two, right of it is safer and leaves a third to the green. (Hole 18)[2]
  • The fairways are among the widest on tour but missing them is heavily punished, and the very large greens mean more long lag putts than usual when the wind blows. (Keys to performing well)[2]

Sources

  1. Yas Links hole-by-hole course guide — Yas Links Golf Clubhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100928005726/http://www.yaslinks.com:80/course
  2. Abu Dhabi Championship: Edoardo Molinari picks out the key holes — DP World Tourhttps://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/news/articles/detail/abu-dhabi-hsbc-championship-edoardo-molinari-picks-out-the-key-holes-and-players-to-watch/