South Africa

Top 100 Golf Courses - South Africa

Kingswood Golf Estate

81^st

Kingswood Golf Estate is located at the heart of the Garden Route and the course is the result of collaboration between the South African golfing legend Sally Little and architect Danie Obermeyer.

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Umdoni Park

82^nd

Umdoni Park, named after the indigenous tree of the same name, was established as a Trust by sugar magnate Sir Frank Reynolds back in 1920...

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Selborne

83^rd

Selborne is laid out within a 200-acre estate in two returning loops and most holes have water to contend with...

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Mossel Bay

84^th

Mossel Bay lies on pleasantly undulating cliff tops with fairly open fairways which have ocean views from each and every one of them...

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Wedgewood Golf & Country Estate

85^th

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.

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Parys

86^th

The new layout at Parys Golf and Country Estate was redesigned by Cobie Le Grange and DDV Design, opening in 2007. Laid out on the banks of the Vaal River, eleven of the holes bring water into play.

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Bloemfontein

87^th

Golf in Bloemfontein dates back more than a century but the parkland course in play today at Bloemfontein Golf Club is a Bob Grimsdell layout that was later refashioned by the prolific Peter Matkovich and Dale Hayes.

Benoni Country Club

88^th

The Benoni Country Club was originally established as the Van Ryn Golf Club back in 1906 when it was created by employees of the Van Ryn mine.

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Bosch Hoek

89^th

Designed with nine holes and eighteen teeboxes, the once-private course at Bosch Hoek Golf Club in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands is an early 1960s Bob Grimsdell layout which has recently been upgraded with bent grass greens by Golf Data.

Legend Golf & Safari Resort

90^th

The course at Legend Golf & Safari Resort is the longest in all of Africa, measuring almost 8,500 yards from the championship tee markers, but it closed in October 2019 for a full revamp and is scheduled to open again in late 2021.

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South Africa Leaderboard

Rank	Name	Courses Played
1	Heinrich du Preez	100
2	Stuart McLean	84
3	Hans Vierra	81
4	Nelson Marais	78
5	DARYL AUSTIN	73
6	Mick Hough	70
=	Stefan Blommaert	70
8	Lohan Neethling	69
9	Tony Perkins	59
10	Alex Rossi	53