Amateur golf in Eastern Cape is administered by the Eastern Province Golf Union (with 7,000 members in 26 clubs) and Border Golf Union (which has around 3,000 members in 23 clubs). The Eastern Cape Women’s Golf Association looks after female golfers, and this governing body oversees the golfing affairs of members in 26 affiliated clubs. Humewood is said to be the only true links layout in the whole country and it dates back to the late 1920s when SV Hotchkin set out the course whilst on a visit from England. He also, during the same trip, had a hand in the design of the East London course on a site that the club had moved to in 1923. Of more recent vintage, Robert Trent Jones Jnr’s Wild Coast course near Port Edward and the Jack Nicklaus St Francis Links layout hold lofty positions in the national ranking charts.
Eastern Cape, South Africa
The course at St Francis Bay lies a little inland from the coast and it displays many links traits with fairways laid out on rugged, tumbling, sandy terrain...
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Greens at Humewood are firm and fast, requiring a sure putting touch – which was needed when the South African Open returned to this top class links in 2006.
East London Golf Club has hosted the South African Open seven times (between 1930 and 2001) and it’s widely regarded as one of the top courses in the Eastern Cape.
Set in natural bush between the Umtamvuna and Mzamba rivers, Wild Coast Sun’s fairways rise and fall then twist and turn...
Situated a few of kilometres inland from Chintsa in the Wild Coast region of the Eastern Cape, the 18-hole layout at the Olivewood Private Estate & Golf Club is the first design of former Sunshine Tour professional Algy Kietzmann, who became so involved with the project that he personally shaped all of the green complexes.
Bob Grimsdell laid out the course at St Francis Bay Golf Club in 1975 and this 9-holer was extended to a full 18-hole layout in 1999 by Danie Obermeyer.
Situated in nearly 900 acres of parkland adjacent to the Hopewell Nature Reserve near Port Elizabeth, lies the Wedgewood Golf & Country Estate, which sports a reconstructed Golf Data course at its centrepiece.
One of four South African clubs with a regal prefix, Royal Port Alfred Golf Club obtained its royal status in 1924, seventeen years after its formation.
The Katberg Eco Golf Estate & Hotel lies within an enormous 1,000-acre estate in the Winterberg Mountains, where residents have the use of a fine 18-hole championship layout.
Founded in 1890, Port Elizabeth is the second oldest golf club in South Africa and it marked 125 years as a golfing institution by hosting the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship in 2015.
