Africa

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

The Country Club course at Durban Country Club has played host to sixteen South African Opens, more than any other course in the land.

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.

Morocco

Morocco’s King Hassan II – a real golf enthusiast – commissioned American-based architect Robert Trent Jones to design Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in the late 1960s on a massive 1,000-acre site...

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.

Morocco

Situated right on the Atlantic coast, the golf complex at the Hilton Al Houara Resort & Spa is a rather unique offering from the unlikely design partnership of Graham Marsh and Vijay Singh.

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...

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.

Morocco

Situated close to the small mountain town of Ifrane, Michlifen Golf & Country Club sits at an altitude of 5,500 feet above sea level within the stunning Middle Atlas Mountain Region of Morocco, between Fez and Meknes.

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.

Mauritius

The course at Ile aux Cerfs Golf Club (formerly known as Le Touessrok) is set on its own tropical island in the Indian Ocean and it's a prestigious IMG layout that bears Bernhard Langer's architectural stamp of approval.

Morocco

Gary Player is the architect of the 18-hole Mazagan golf course and it’s rather fitting that this golfing legend, who claimed his Open titles on championship seaside courses, should fashion this contemporary links layout on Morocco’s Atlantic coast.

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...

Morocco

The tee for the par three 17th is located at the highest point on the golf course – offering panoramic views of all the holes on the back nine – and it’s the starting point for the signature hole at Assoufid.

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.

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".

Morocco

The fairways of the Tazegzout golf course at the Taghazout Bay Resort occupy a massive 190-acre site that sits 250 feet above the Atlantic, with views of the ocean’s sparkling waters enjoyed from every hole on the layout.

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

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.

Morocco

A very private 18-holer that you'll not find listed in any Moroccan golf directory, Golf du Palais Royal d’Agadir is a Robert Trent Jones Snr design that lies within the heavily guarded ramparts of the Royal Palace...

Kenya

Situated less than an hour’s drive north of downtown Mombasa, the Baobab golf course is the first of two 18-hole layouts planned for an ambitious residential development at Vipingo Ridge...

Kenya

The Kenyan Open was held here from 1969 to 2002 and during its time at Muthaiga Golf Club, the competition was won by a trio of golfers who would go on to become Masters Champions...

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

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

Mauritius

Peter Matkovich was the architect who fashioned the course at the Heritage (Le Château) (formerly Golf du Château) within the enormous Domaine de Bel Ombre estate on the southwest coast of Mauritius.

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...

Tunisia

The Yasmine Valley golf course at Hammamet offers a great deal more than the normal type of resort golf experience one might expect through an undulating landscape of pine and olive groves.

Egypt

The Allegria is Greg Norman’s first North African golf course design, opening to rave reviews when it was first unveiled in 2010 on the outskirts of Cairo.

Botswana

After more than two years in the making, Phakalane Golf Estate has risen up from Botswana’s hot, arid scrubland.

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.”

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...

Mauritius

Anahita Golf & Spa Resort hosted five editions of the Afrasia Golf Masters beginning in 2010, when a large number of professional and amateur players participated in a week-long series of competitions.

Egypt

In a remarkable feat of engineering, the imagination of Faldo and technical excellence of Schmidt and Curley transformed a barren and featureless Egyptian desert into a lush golfing oasis called Katameya Dunes...

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...

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.

Morocco

For many years the tree-lined fairways of the Red and Blue courses at Royal Dar Es Salam co-hosted the Trophée Hassan II competition until the event moved to Mohammedia in 2010.

Kenya

Karen Country Club is located close to Karen Blixen’s house, which is now a museum dedicated to the late Danish author whose memoir, Out of Africa, was her most famous work.

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 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...

Tunisia

La Foret course at Golf Citrus is strategic and demanding with many of the fairways doglegging through pine groves laid out on hilly terrain.

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.

Uganda

Water hazards form a large part of the playing strategy at Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa, especially on the 549-metre 8th and 395-metre 18th holes, both of which feature spectacular island greens in the lake inlet that leads to the mooring in front of the clubhouse.

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!"

Ghana

Unusually, a round at Achimota Golf Club now starts and finishes with a par three hole and there are back-to-back par fives on both the front and back nines...

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...

Seychelles

The luxury resort of Lemuria in the Seychelles derives its name from a mythical “lost land” of the same name that was meant to exist somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

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.

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...

Namibia

Omeya Golf Estate is a self-contained satellite town on the edge of Windhoek. The course was designed by Peter Matkovich and it's something of an emerald golfing jewel that lies within the Namibian bushveld.

Egypt

Cascades at Somabay was far ahead of its time when it opened in 1998, in fact it was the first championship golf course in North Africa to be designed by any of the modern day “Great Triumvirate”...