Type: Championship parkland

Designer: Peter Matkovich

Length: 18 holes, 6 381 m

Par: 72

Featured hole: 8th – bucket-list hole requiring accurate shots and strategic play

Arabella Golf Course in Hermanus is one of the top-ranked golf courses in South Africa, with pristine conditioning, tricky sand traps and challenging water hazards on the golf course. The Arabella Golf Club edges along the Bot River Lagoon and looks out onto the fynbos-covered Kogelberg mountains, and is a course designed to be played as much as it is admired.

Facilities include:

  • Fully stocked pro shop
  • Warm up range, putting and chipping green
  • Secure lockers rooms and showers
  • Golf carts
  • Golfing clinics and coaching by the Pro
  • Half way house and golf club bar

Type: Championship Links

Designer: Mark Muller

Length: 18 holes, 6 295m

Par: 72

Featured hole: 13th “Lions Head” – a blind tee shot and the third shot is steeply uphill

Set against Table Mountain and 700m from the beach, each hole on this golf course has been carefully designed to ensure a varied golfing experience every time. The direction of the breeze dictates your game plan. On calm days you can play your normal lofted shot or on windy days you can play links-style low running shots beneath the wind.

Atlantic Beach golf course has been built with a serious commitment to the preservation of the indigenous fauna and flora (fynbos).

Facilities include:

  • Caddy and golf carts
  • Practice facilities
  • Lessons
  • Dining
  • Spa
  • Club and shoe rental
  • Locker room
  • Golf shop

Type: Parkland

Designer: Peter Matkovich

Length: 27 holes (1-18 = East course; 1-9 and 19-27 = North course; 10-18 and 19-27 = South course)

Par: 72

Featured hole: 11th on the East course – The tightest tee shot, where an avenue of pine trees forms a dauntingly narrow target. The approach shot is played uphill to a raised green.

Hermanus Golf Course was redesigned in 2006, where the charming and gentle layout of the past was replaced with modern classically designed holes. The East Course is considered the best layout. The 3 different nines have a character of their own, and each provides a quality golf experience – the variety of holes is a feature, as is the number of strong challenging par 4s. Superb conditioning has long been a feature of Hermanus.

Championships are played on the East course and attracted its first ever SA men’s Amateur Championship in 2014, as well as being home to the Walker Bay Classic since 1984.

Facilities include:

  • Pro shop (run by The Pro Shop brand)
  • Practice facilities – short game area, putting green
  • Clubhouse
  • Club rental
  • Caddie and cart retal
  • Lockers

Type:

  • The Links: Links
  • Montagu: Parkland
  • Outeniqua: Parkland

Designer: Gary Player

Length:

  • The Links: 18 holes, 6 930m
  • Montagu: 18 holes, 6 714m
  • Outeniqua: 18 holes, 6 312m

Par:

  • The Links: 73
  • Montagu: 72
  • Outeniqua: 72

Featured hole:

  • The Links: The 10th is called Kilimanjaro, with an elevated green perched at the top of the dunes.
  • Montagu: The 17th is a signature hole,  where the tee and green are separated by a wide expanse of water.

Fancourt is home of some of the most rewarding golf courses for both pros and novices. There are 3 Gary Player-designer courses, each with its own unique character and allure.

The Links is Fancourt’s flagship course and measures up to the highest international standards. Ranked 2nd in South Africa, The Links has hosted some of the prestigious tournaments, including the Presidents Cup (2003), the SA Open (2005) and the 2012 Volvo Golf Champions European Tour. The Links is a walking course, with no cart hire, and a caddie for every player is compulsory.

The Montagu course has a world-renowned reputation as one of the best 18-hole parkland courses, and is well-known for superb conditioning and fast-paced firm greens. With rolling fairways and strategically-placed bunkers, even the most experienced golfers will find themselves challenged.

The Outeniqua course is a parklands course, offering views of the surrounding mountains and forests, and can be challenging. Several tightish fairways demand accuracy from the tee, and water hazards are in play on several holes.

Pace of play is monitored for both Montagu and Outebiqua, and golfers are given 4h30 to complete a round.

Facilities include:

  • Proshop
  • Caddy and golf carts
  • Practice facilities
  • The Academy at Fancourt
  • Lessons offered by PGA professionals
  • Dining
  • Spa

Type:

  • St Francis Bay: Parkland
  • St Francis Links: Links

Designer:

  • St Francis Bay: Robert Grimsdell
  • St Francis Links: Jack Nicklaus

Length:

  • St Francis Bay: 18 holes, 5 647m
  • St Francis Links: 18 holes, 6 553m

Par:

  • St Francis Bay: 71
  • St Francis Links: 72

Featured hole:

  • St Francis Bay: 9th – a 381m links-like hole, has a dogleg right around coastal bush. From an elevated tee you play to a rumpled fairway.
  • St Francis Links: 17th – 114 holes-in-one have been played here, where Nicklaus designed a Redan-style green in the dunes playing between 190 and 125m.

The St Francis Link currently hosts the SA PGA Chamionship (Sunshine Tour).  The course asks for brave shots and inventive ones, with Nicklaus excelling in his designs with varied challenges, short and long, wide and narrow, uphill and down. There are 4 different sets of tees, making the course enjoyable for everyone.

St Francis Bay was once a 9-holer, and was rebuilt in 1999. With its sandy soil, the course has a strong links feel to it, particularly the bunkering and greens, and indigenous bush lining some fairways, and attractive design features have resulted in an interesting variety of holes.

Facilities include:

  • Clubhouse
  • Proshop
  • Driving range
  • Putting green

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