I played that course in Dubai (if memory serves me right it's The Montgomery Course?). The green was the biggest in the world and made in the shape of the country. There are indeed tees pretty much all the way around the island, and it's a hole where you can find yourself with an almost impossible second shot if you hit it onto the wrong part of the green as you'll be either hitting a flop shot over water or having to putt 40 odd feet away from the hole.
Very gimmicky in my opinion.