Currently Iran's only golf course, it is situated in Tehran on the Enghelab Sports complex. The Enghelab course (which translates as 'Revolution') is the only 13 hole golf course in the world. Previously 18 holes, 5 of them were confiscated in 1992. The course is in dramatic surroundings with the towering Alborz mountains to the north and the sprawling city of Tehran to the South. The course plays as 18 holes with 3 to 7 being also played as 12 to 16.
Despite only having one golf course, the sport is becoming more and more popular within Iran, particularly amongst women. Due to the increasing popularity of the sport, over the last two years, the Iranian Golfing Federation have hosted two local tournaments for Iranians and foreign diplomatic staff. Now though, for the first time ever, Iran are opening their doors to the worlds golfing community, allowing all nationalities to travel to Iran to take part in this historic event.
There is a beautiful food court in "Enghelab" sport complex which Diba Tensile Architecture has designed and constructed an aesthetic membrane roof for it. So far the food court has turned into a new attraction of the complex, and not only for the athletes, other people come to this food court to dine, relax and enjoy the beautiful views.The design of the roof needed to be special in order to cover as much space as possible, yet keeping the old pine trees. As shown in the picture below, the building is built among the trees and there are holes on the roof which the trunks of the trees go through them. The membrane covering is on the roof of the building where the branches of the trees expand. Finally Diba architects came with an unsymmetrical double-conic form with highly curved edges that eliminates the membrane and trees connection.
Despite only having one golf course, the sport is becoming more and more popular within Iran, particularly amongst women. Due to the increasing popularity of the sport, over the last two years, the Iranian Golfing Federation have hosted two local tournaments for Iranians and foreign diplomatic staff. Now though, for the first time ever, Iran are opening their doors to the worlds golfing community, allowing all nationalities to travel to Iran to take part in this historic event.
