Port Elizabeth

In 1890, the club was founded. Port Elizabeth Golf Club quickly established itself as one of the top stars of South African golf. After the launch of the South African Tournament at Kimberley in 1892, Port Elizabeth then hosted the next three years of the tournament before the club moved to its current site in 1902.

The next year The following year, SA Tournament returned to Port Elizabeth for the fifth time. SA Tournament returned to Port Elizabeth for the fifth time, and included not just the Amateur Championship but the Open Championship featuring four professional golfers and six amateurs taking part in the tournament. Johannesburg-based professional Laurie Waters won the inaugural Open with an aggregate score of 36 holes that beat his closest competitor 3 strokes ahead.

In 1934 Port Elizabeth had hosted eight Amateurs as well as five Opens, 3 women's Amateurs along with Three PGA Championships. In the years following there was a return of the Amateur returned in the years 1974 and 1990 and an additional Women's Amateur also taking place in the years 1979 as well as 1998 and 2010. Twenty-four national titles won during the course of a long history of 130 years is great going for a surprisingly modest club within the shade of close by Humewood.

Contrary to its famed neighbor at the coast, "The Hill" as it's referred to locally is a parkland layout that has various trees scattered all over the course. Bob Grimsdell upgraded the course in 1952, and Danie Obermeyer, and Philip Basson from Golfscape carried out a major overhaul in the beginning of the new millennium. redesigning the bunkers and greens and rehabilitating two holes.

Some of the holes with special features include right-doglegging par fives on the 13th and 8th (with some water hazards on the greens impacting shots to the hole's approach) The heavily-bunkered shorter par 4 16th and the 18th, left doglegged (rated as stoke index 18) which provides an excellent opportunity to walk off the green at home with the birdie (or better) on the 18th hole.