South Africa

Western Cape, South Africa

The Links course at Fancourt opened for play in November 2000 and it represents a unique and very tough South African golfing experience.

Mpumalanga, South Africa

Leopard Creek Country Club – the wild thing – is a course that’s in-tune with nature. Set on the edge of the Kruger National Park it's a cocktail of golf and safari.

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...

Western Cape, South Africa

The 18-hole Montagu parkland layout is the original course at Fancourt (from an initial 27-hole design), which was upgraded in 2005 when new 1st and 9th holes were introduced.

Western Cape, South Africa

Laid out within a 500-acre residential estate in the Cape Winelands, Pearl Valley is one of the most visually pleasing golf courses imaginable...

North West, South Africa

The Gary Player Country Club is perhaps South Africa’s most famous course thanks to the “Million Dollar Golf Challenge”. Naturally the “Black Knight” designed it and it’s one of the longest courses in the country...

Western Cape, South Africa

Arabella Golf Club is set dramatically on the edge of Bot River Lagoon. This wetland is home to thousands of waterfowl, so keep your eyes peeled for the Blue Crane… this beautiful bird is even the Arabella club emblem.

North West, South Africa

Few know much about the course at the ultra-private Millvale Golf Estate, which is located in the North West Province, near Koster and not far from Rustenburg.

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.

Gauteng, South Africa

Measuring an incredible 8,300 yards from the back markers, Blair Atholl is one of the longest golf courses in the world...

Gauteng, South Africa

Formed back in 1935, the Glendower Golf Club engaged the services of Harry Colt’s associate, Charles Hugh Alison, to lay out an 18-hole parkland course in two loops of nine...

Gauteng, South Africa

Founded in 1967, the River Club is an ultra-exclusive golf club often referred to as "the Augusta National of South Africa".

Gauteng, South Africa

The East course at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington is famed for its fearsome start to the inward half, with back-to-back par fours over 500 yards in length at the 10th and 11th holes.

Eastern Cape, South Africa

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.

Western Cape, South Africa

According to Peter Matkovich – the architect behind Pinnacle Point – this is: "The most dramatic golf course site I've ever encountered anywhere in the world!"

Northern Cape, South Africa

Sishen was the last course designed by Robert Grimsdell and its lush green fairways are bounded by stands of trees and desert vegetation...

Western Cape, South Africa

The Jack Nicklaus designed Simola opened in 2005 – only the third Golden Bear signature course in South Africa – and it sits majestically on a wooded landscape overlooking the Knysna River...

Western Cape, South Africa

George Golf Club members have played on the same site for more than 85 years so it’s little wonder George is sometimes referred to – by Fancourt visitors in particular – as “the Old Course.”

Gauteng, South Africa

Opened in April 2015 after a lengthy grow-in period, the golf course at Steyn City is a Nicklaus Design that’s the focal point of an enormous parkland and real estate development on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

Mpumalanga, South Africa

Located near Dullstroom in South Africa's premier fly-fishing area, Highland Gate Golf and Trout Estate boasts an Ernie Els Signature course that opened to critical acclaim in 2014.

Limpopo, South Africa

A stream winds through part of the course to a lake which forms the centerpiece of the design here at Elements Private Golf Reserve.

Western Cape, South Africa

The Outeniqua (meaning “land of milk and honey”) parkland layout has a number of fairways bounded by white-walled, thatched roof villas, adding character and colour to the surroundings.

Western Cape, South Africa

The fairways at Pezula – meaning “high up with the gods” – are part and parcel of a sizeable residential estate laid out on a commanding headland at Knysna in the heart of the Garden Route...

Western Cape, South Africa

Erinvale was one of the earliest residential estate courses in South Africa to open back in 1995 and it made an immediate world wide impact the following year when it hosted the World Cup of Golf...

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Zimbali's 18 holes are laid out within a coastal forest reserve and the course is routed through wetlands and woodland with substantial changes in elevation throughout.

Gauteng, South Africa

Woodmead is regarded as the more prestigious of the two 18-hole courses at the Country Club of Johannesburg though the Rocklands course is a very good track too...

Gauteng, South Africa

Pretoria Country Club put itself on the map after a 2004 Gary Player redesign. Pot bunkers are now the order of the day as are new and re-fashioned water hazards.

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Johannesburg golfer Hugh Baiocchi designed the 18-hole championship course at Champagne Sports Resort and it first opened for play in 1997.

Gauteng, South Africa

The Randpark course (now called Firethorn) was established in the mid-1960s when the golf club acquired some land adjacent to their Windsor Park (now called Bushwillow) course...

Gauteng, South Africa

Bryanston plays very long (7,400 yards from the back markers) and the tone is set for the round with back-to-back par fives at the opening two holes.

Western Cape, South Africa

De Zalze is yet another creation from the prolific Peter Matkovich and is laid out within the 750-acre Spier Estate in the shadow of the Helderberg Mountains...

Gauteng, South Africa

Laid out on a gently undulating landscape, the course at Kyalami Country Club is a fine example of suburban parkland golf, with generous fairways and clever bunkering...

Gauteng, South Africa

The course at Parkview Golf Club was established in 1916 when LB Waters, the four-time winner of the South African Open, set out a series of golf holes along a long, narrow green belt...

Western Cape, South Africa

With spectacular mountain views, False Bay and the ocean as a focal point, it’s no wonder that Clovelly was one of Bobby Locke’s favourite courses.

Eastern Cape, South Africa

Set in natural bush between the Umtamvuna and Mzamba rivers, Wild Coast Sun’s fairways rise and fall then twist and turn...

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

The signature hole at Prince’s Grant is the 560-yard par five 15th. "Umvoti" plays from an elevated tee to a green down beside the Indian Ocean...

Gauteng, South Africa

The Rocklands course (formerly known as Woodlands) is the newer of the two 18-hole layouts at The Country Club Johannesburg and its more open fairways are the perfect foil to the tougher, tighter Woodmead course.

Gauteng, South Africa

Jack Nicklaus officially opened his new Signature course at the long-established Houghton Golf Club in 2011. The course is not brutally long but relies on strategic bunkering to protect par.

North West, South Africa

The most fearsome hazard at Lost City is reserved for the downhill par three 13th where a crocodile pit guards the front of the green!

Western Cape, South Africa

The course at Steenberg is part of a long-established estate that includes a 17th century wine farm, hotel and residential properties...