Best Golf Courses in South Africa
25 ranked courses in South Africa
South Africa has 25 clubs in this guide, spread across seven provinces, with the Western Cape (eight) and Gauteng (six) holding the most. Parkland is the main type, at 15 of the 25, alongside five coastal courses, three links, one mountain course and one desert course. Ten clubs are semi-private, seven are resort courses, six are private and two are public. Gary Player's name runs through the list. He designed Leopard Creek Country Club at Malelane, on the western boundary of the Kruger National Park with the Crocodile River beside several holes; the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City, home of the Nedbank Golf Challenge; Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate at Lanseria; and The Links at Fancourt in George, an inland links that staged the 2003 Presidents Cup. Jack Nicklaus is behind three: Pearl Valley Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course at Paarl, Simola Golf & Country Estate in Knysna and St Francis Links, a public links at St Francis Bay. The Eastern Cape coast also holds Humewood Golf Club in Gqeberha, an S. V. Hotchkin links from 1931 that has hosted the South African Open five times, and East London Golf Club, founded in 1893. In KwaZulu-Natal, Durban Country Club opened in 1922 with about half its holes in dunes that run parallel to the sea. Inland, Glendower Golf Club in Edenvale has staged the national Open eight times, and Sishen Golf Club at Kathu plays through a 500-hectare camelthorn forest close to the Kalahari.
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The Garden Route makes one trip: Pinnacle Point Estate at Mossel Bay, George Golf Club and the two Fancourt courses in George, then Simola and Pezula Golf Estate in Knysna. Johannesburg is the base for Glendower, Royal Johannesburg & Kensington, Kyalami and Blair Atholl. Further afield, Durban Country Club pairs with Zimbali Country Club at Ballito, Humewood with St Francis Links on the Eastern Cape coast, and Leopard Creek with Highland Gate near Dullstroom in Mpumalanga.
- Ranked courses
- 25
- Course styles
- parkland 15 · coastal 5 · links 3
- Access
- semi-private 10 · resort 7 · private 6
- Opened
- 1906–2008
- Playable without membership
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