Northern Cape
Two bodies oversee amateur golf within The Northern Cape province. The first bodies is called Northern Cape Golf Union. Northern Cape Golf Union which is home to 6,000 golfers in 62 clubs that span two provinces and has 25 clubs within Northern Cape. Northern Cape section. The other authority for regional golf is the Karoo Golf Union and its 20 affiliated clubs are situated within an area that stretches clockwise across Upington up to De Aar to Beaufort West from Beaufort West to Calvinia. Kimberley is one of the oldest golf clubs in the African continent, was formed in 1890. Its members continue to play on a beautiful 18-hole layout, where the putting surfaces have changed from sand browns, to diamondiferous tailings and their Elliot grass greens being used. But, all accounts, the finest golf course of the area can be located in Sishen in the Sishen region, where 18 lush fairways of green have been laid around the Camel Thorn forests.