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South Africa Golf Courses

South africa is fast becomming one of the world's favourite and exciting golfing destinations.There are few reasons why it's a good idea to plan your next golfing holiday to South Africa. One is the fact that green fees are very reasonable compared to many other parts of the world. Another is far more important: South Africa has many Chapionship Golf Courses with breathtaking sceneray and awesome surroundings.

From the North to the South and all along the coasts of South Africa, you will find many diverse golf courses. Each with it's own unique style and landscaping. Ranging from bush surroundings playing around wildlife to teeing off with the waves of the Indian Ocean crashing down a few metres below.

Here is just a few of the magnificent golf courses South Africa has to offer. Please contact us for a full range of all the courses available.

Mpumalanga Golf Course

Mpumalanga

Leopard Creek

Rated South Africa's number one golf course, the 18 holes of the Leopard Creek championship golf course is certainly the biggest and brightest diamond of them all. Situated inside a private game reserve, the natural surroundings of this course engrave themselves in the memories of all players while the golf course itself tests and provides extreme enjoyment to all golfers.

Skukuza

Here is a first for South Africa and the world - a unique opportunity for golfing enthusiasts within one of the world's greatest conservation establishments, the Kruger National Park. The Skukuza Golf Course is designed for all levels of golfers. The course is a Par 72, 5 950m (6 450 yards) for men and 5 059m (5 480 yards) for women of sheer pleasure and challenge. Since the course is not fenced-in, uninvited spectators are a common sight. While the graceful and curious giraffe may stop by to thoroughly analyze the arc of your swing, the grazing impalas and warthogs may just not pay you any attention at all. The birds in the nearby trees and the spectacular view of Lake Panic should not lull you into complacency, however. Any wayward shots are severely punishable with a play in the rough where one may have to face the true inhabitants of the park.

Graceland

The flat savannahs of Mpumalanga do not at first glance suggest that they are suitable for the building of a golf course, but as one of the world's leading designers, Gary Player made creative use of what natural features were available and the results are a highly challenging course at Graceland Hotel, Casino and Country Club. The front and back nines of Graceland Country Club follow paths along opposite sides of natural donga's. The course features a mixture of significant elevation changes, water hazards, rolling fairways, and strategically placed bunkering.

North West Golf Courses

North West Province

Gary Player Country Club

Gary Player designed a course which, due to the variety of tee and pin positions can be set up to suit the handicap player as well as the professional. Combine the length of the course from the back tees with difficult pin positions and the tough kikuyu grass and the heat inside the "volcano", especially if grown to 4-6 inches around narrow fairways, and the course can become virtually unplayable - even for professionals.

In past Million Dollar Challenges we've seen course records of 63 but we've also seen pro's shoot 300 over 4 days. There is no easy nine on this course. As the course winds through the valley you never have a level lie on the fairways and missing the fairways are murder. By the time you reach the green you need to be able to relax - but you can't - the greens are slick, sloping and daunting.

Lost City Golf Course

The Lost City Golf Course lies within the Sun City entertainment complex in the semi-desert of the North-West Province of South Africa. It was designed - like the neighboring Gary Player Country Club - by South Africa's grand master of golf Gary Player. The Lost City Golf Course is long, difficult and beautiful and belongs to the best in the world. The course shows many water hazards, a lake among them. The most dangerous water hazard lies at hole 13 (directly at the green), because here a great number of crocodiles are romping about, some more than two meters long, it is not advisable to fish golf balls out of the water.

Pecanwood Golf Course

Overlooking the Hartebeespoort Dam and the oldest reported mountain range in the world, The Magaliesberg Mountains, Pecanwood is one of the latest and greatest 18 hole courses to be added to South Africa's list. Opened by Jack Nicklaus on 22 August 1998, it features holes similar to the finest holes in America including the 18th from Pebble Beach. Pecanwood can be placed in the top drawer of all golfing experiences.

Limpopo Golf Courses

Limpopo Province

Hans Merensky Golf Estate

The Hans Merensky Golf Estate is located in the warm heart of the Valley of the Elephants. Situated on the border of the world renowned Kruger National Park, the Hans Merensky Hotel and Spa offers a unique blend of Golf and Game to both local and International visitors. Guests are able to experience a unique package offering luxury accommodation, sports, conference facilities and a world famous golf course that is home to a wide variety of game & over 200 species of birds.

Zebula Golf Estate & Spa

Try your hand at a round of golf at what promises to be one of the most magnificent golf courses in Africa's natural bushveld. Don't be surprised if you encounter a lofty giraffe or a shy zebra or two during your golfing experience. Zebula Country Club lies within 1200 hectares of bushveld.

It is the realisation of a long time dream to combine the wonders of golf with the natural wildlife and habitat of the African bush. Designed by Peter Matkovitch, renowned designer of Leopard Rock, Spier, Steenberg and Arabella, the highest ranked new course in SA.

Mogol Golf Course

The Mogol golf course is situated in Lephalale and is well known for it's monstrously big Marula trees (better known as sky bunkers), winds through the Onverwacht extension and demands accuracy and precision.

The Mogol Club offers you a very demanding 72 Par, 6077 metres course, laid out with such ingenuity that you do not even need to leave town to play golf. This attractive 18 hole course is considered to be one of the country's best winter courses and forms part of the Mogol Sports Club which also caters for many other sports such as squash, tennis and swimming. A conference facility, a sports hall, function hall and a swimming pool are only some of the club's excellent facilities.

Eastern Cape Golf Courses

Eastern Cape

Humewood Golf Club

The Humewood Golf Course is situated in the city of Port Elizabeth and is a unique old-fashioned links course. Rated in the top fifteen golf course in Southern Africa, the great Bobby Locke once remarked that if the British Open were to be held outside the British Isles, then Humewood would be the ideal venue. After your round relax in the 19th hole with awesome views overlooking the course and out to sea.

Fish River Sun Golf Course

Fish River is a good golfing layout, albeit more than a bit windblown at times during the year, and an ideal stopover between East London and Port Elizabeth. Close to the beach, but separated by high dunes, on a nice calm day it's a gem to play. It's always had a reputation as one of the best-conditioned courses in the region. The Old Woman's River runs through the middle of the course, and has to be carried twice, once with the tee shot on No.13 andcoming back with an approach to the 16th. One of the feature holes at Fish River is the 12th, a long par-5 that curves around a bend in the river.

Royal Port Alfred Golf Club

Royal Port Alfred Golf Club is as charming and old-fashioned, as you will find in South Africa, very much a product of the early years of the century. However, it's too special to change, and should be always preserved exactly as it is. Many of the holes are quirky, but that simply adds to the intrigue, forcing you to play unconventional shots, and there's fun to be had here. It is built on rolling hills and sand dunes with views over the Indian Ocean, and each hole is individually named, sometimes quite aptly in the case of Whale's back, the Punch Bowl and Hippo's bath. The clubhouse has a grand view out over the course and the sea, and there's an equally good vista from the high top tee on Greenmantle, the 12th.

KwaZulu Natal Golf Courses

KwaZulu Natal

Durban Country Club

The Durban Country Club golf course is rated as one of the top ten golf courses in South Africa. No other golf club has hosted the South African Open and other important tournaments as often as Durban. The course lies directly at the beach of the Indian Ocean and has been masterly fashioned into the dunes. It was opened in 1922 and updated 1959. Many of the holes are positively difficult. The 12th with its steeply raised green is also called the Prince of Wales hole. The Prince, who played here in 1924, needed 17 strokes, until the ball was eventually in the hole.

Wild Coast Sun Country Club

This championship course hosts a number of high profile tournaments every year. With the Indian Ocean as a backdrop, American golf course architect, Robert Trent Jones Jnr, has created a most dramatic golfing experience along the cliffside coastline. Testament to the high regard this golf course is held in, is the fact that since the introduction of the ranking of South Africa's best golf courses the Wild Coast Sun course has never dropped out of the top ten.

Zimbali Golf Course

The Golf Course at Zimbali is the first in Africa to be designed by world-class designer and former British and South African Open Champion. Situated in a unique coastal forest reserve on the Kwazulu Natal's Dolphin Coast, these shores are washed by the warm Indian Ocean and covered with lush vegetation. An 18-hole par 72-championship golf course offers even the higher handicappers a competitive game of golf.

Western Cape Golf Courses

Western Cape

Fancourt Hotel & Country Club Estate

A challenging game of golf awaits even the most proficient golfer at Fancourt situated along the Garden Route. One has the choice of playing 4 golf courses designed by golfing great Gary Player. These courses are in a class of their own and every golfer is compelled to improve his technique and strategy. Fancourt has hosted the 2003 Presidents Cup and is Southern Africa's only member of the prestigious 'Great Golf Resorts of the World' Association.

Arabella Golf Estate

The Arabella Estate, originally known as "Laughing Waters", began as a barley farm and is an area designated a "World Biosphere", and earmarked to become a "World Heritage" site. Maintaining a balance between man and nature was foremost in the development of the Championship Golf Course on the "Beautiful Land", with its rolling, undulating terrain. The course was completed during December 1999 and Peter Matkovich has ensured the 18 holes encompass the Mountain backdrops, lagoon frontage and forests on the estate. These provide for links, parkland and coastal aspects, while the individual fairways provide natural corridors as vantage points to savor nature's true beauty. The challenge of finding the wide fairways is set by hungry bunkers, thirsty water hazards and lagoon, and emphasized by the magnificent "dominant bent grass" greens.

Pearl Valley Golf Estate

Nestled in the heart of South Africa's beautiful Cape Wine lands, Pearl Valley Golf Estates is recognized internationally as a prestigious destination for world-class golf and premium lifestyle. It is a place of natural splendour, of good friends and excellent cuisine, of appreciation of life’s finer pleasures – and, of course, a spectacular round of golf.

Simola Golf & Country Estate

Located high up in the hills above the Garden Route town of Knysna, Simola Golf & Country Estate is a world apart. Fairways merge seamlessly with lush indigenous vegetation and forests creating an evocative vista of undulating green hills and dales descending gently down to the Knysna River. From its vantage point, the 325-hectare Estate looks out a spectacular panorama encompassing the full expanse of the Knysna Lagoon, all the way to the Heads and beyond to the sea.

Free State Golf Courses

Free State

Schoeman Park Golf Club

The course is noted for its tall trees which come into play on many of the holes, including the 2nd which is a shortish par-four where the drive must be steered through a narrow avenue of foliage. The 4th hole, stroke two on the card, is a tough 415-metre par-four with out -of-bounds on the right and thick, wiry rough to contend with. The next hole is a splendid par-five of 501 meters with a strategically placed water hazard crossing the fairway about 120 meters from the green. On the inward loop, the 395-metre dogleg par-four 13th stands out, as out-of-bounds on the right and the tall trees which are on either side of the fairway mean that accuracy off the tee is vital. The drive must again be precise at the 417-metre par-four 16th which bends almost 90 degrees to the right. The 18th curves to the left and there is plenty of rough and trees both on the left and on the right of the fairway.

Oppenheimer Park Golf Course

Power and accuracy are the keys to success here. The 10th, 395 metres, is a dogleg left. The drive is important and must avoid the trees on the corner of the dogleg. The green is protected by bunkers and gives the impression of being tucked away behind trees, bushes and shrubs. Water is an abiding factor at Oppenheimer Park, and the 'dreaded drink' is in play at five out of seven holes from number 6.

Bloemfontein Golf CLub

Bloemfontein's last five holes - all water holes, rival the toughest in South Africa. The 14th, is a par-five of 478 metres. The river that flows though the course is a major threat here. The water must be crossed with the tee shot and also comes into play down the left-hand side of the fairway and right up to the green. The 15th is a demanding par-four of 429 metres. The river again comes into play on the left, while the giant, three-tiered green is guarded by bunkers to the left and to the right. A big sand trap in the middle of the fairway 60 metres short of the green can cause immense problems with the approach, while a bunker to the left of the green and a grass bunker to the right add to the severity of the closing hole.

Northern Cape Golf Courses

Northern Cape

Sishen Golf & Country Club

Situated on the outskirts of the town of Kathu in the Northern Cape Province, this is truly a unique setting in which to play a round of golf - the course winds its way through a 500 hectare Camelthorn forest on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Built and maintained by Sishen Iron Ore Mine and officially opened in 1979, this, the last masterpiece of Robert Grimsdell, which he unfortunately could not see completed.

Considering its surroundings, its lush green fairways and greens have surprised many a visitor to this arid region. Being situated off the beaten track, the course is blissfully un-congested and visitors are always assured of getting a game here. Sishen's par 72, 18-hole course is currently rated in the top 30 best golf courses in South Africa, and is truly one of the hidden gems of Southern Africa.

Upington Golf Course

Mention Upington and the mind conjures up visions of a desolate unbaked Southern Kalahari Desert town where man's existence is a daily struggle.

But how wrong can one be? Through this harsh landscape that surrounds Upington runs a glittering green ribbon - the fertile Orange River valley which brings life-giving water from the distant highlands of Lesotho to the town. Upington Golf Course is a suprisingly attractive, contrasting 18 hole grass course with a true "Kalahari" look and feel to it.

Magersfontein Memorial Golf Estate

The first golf estate in this area. MMGE has an unique layout with bent grass greens, plenty pothole bunkers and picture perfect fairways. This layout has several replicas around the world; eg.
- Green and bunker layout of the 8th - 14th of Berwick, Scotland,
- Opening hole 1st - 17th of Wentworth, London.
Truly a demanding golf course to test your golfing skills at all levels.

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Gauteng Golf Courses

Gauteng

Glendower Country Club

Rated as one of SA's top ten courses. A well designed 6 770m course, situated against a tree-covered slope. The fairways are excellent, featuring numerous hazards and narrowing at the greens. The course opened in 1937 and has superb kikuyu fairways and excellent greens. There are 85 bunkers and water comes into play on 11 of the holes. It is a heavily wooded, parkland course.

Roodepoort Country Club

Roodepoort Country Club was designed by Gary Player and Ron Kirby and is renowned for its large, undulating Bent grass greens with subtle slopes. It is a well bunkered, inland links course with well defined fairways - a great test of golfing ability for both high and low handicap golfers.

Kyalami Country Club

Kyalami Country Club has some really excellent holes, not the least of which is the 178-metre par-three 3rd where the tee shot must carry water and be hit precisely, as only a narrow strip of land up the right-hand side can offer any relief if the ball misses the green. The 436-metre 11th - stroke two on the card - provides a searching test. It is a tight hole where the second shot must carry water to a well-guarded green. The finishing hole is a par-five of 479 metres off the championship tees.

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