Home of many great golfers, we take a look at some of the best courses in South Africa.
The Best Golf Courses In South Africa
South Africa is a country that has had a long relationship with the game of golf. Not only has it produced some of the best golfers ever in Gary Player, Ernie Els, Bobby Locke and countless others, but the country also has some world class golf courses too.
Here we have taken a look at some of the best.
Fancourt (Links)
On South Africa’s south coast, midway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, Fancourt is at the heart of South Africa’s famed ‘garden route’. It’s a supremely beautiful stretch of coastline with a moderate climate and incredible array of flora and fauna. Fancourt has three courses, all designed by nine-time Major Champion Gary Player.
The premier track is the Links, venue for the 2003 Presidents Cup and the 2012 Volvo Golf Champions event won by Branden Grace. It’s an incredible design inspired by the great links tracks of Scotland and Ireland and is generally regarded as one of the very best courses in South Africa.
Leopard Creek
Leopard Creek offers safari golf with the course located on the southern edge of Kruger National Park, about 200 miles east of Johannesburg.
There are numerous water features and even if you are not enjoying the golf, which would be very hard to do, there is a good chance of spotting crocodile, hippo, antelope, buffalo, or even a lion. The course is also an excellent test of golf.
Durban Country Club
The course is one of the country’s oldest dating back to 1922. It’s little more than a stone’s throw from the Indian Ocean, and laid out over what would once have been sand dunes.
Although it perhaps doesn’t really have the feel of a links in terms of its grasses and firmness, it certainly does in the way many fairways play over rumpled, mounded terrain the like of which you will rarely have experienced, especially the 17th were the rollercoaster fairway drops and rises.
Humewood
Along the coast of the Eastern Cape in South Africa there stretches mile upon mile of classic links land with towering sand dunes he equal of anything Scotland or Ireland have to offer. And yet despite this fabulous natural resource South Africa can lay claim to only one authentic links golf course.
Humewood, on the outskirts of…
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