Fancourt
Mountain-framed golf at the heart of a Garden Route escape.
Our first African guide starts on South Africa’s Garden Route, where Fancourt provides a base for golf and a wider holiday. Use it as a starting point for an itinerary with breathing room.
Mountain-framed golf at the heart of a Garden Route escape.
Gary Player’s Atlantic dune course beside seven kilometres of beach.
Destination imageryA new Oosthuizen links and a château garden course on one estate.
Destination imageryNicklaus fairways under the Simonsberg, a short hop from Franschhoek.
Matkovich fairways along the Bot River Lagoon, ninety minutes from Cape Town.
Destination imageryVineyard golf on a 1682 wine farm, with an island green and a 76-metre putting surface.
Destination imageryAfrica’s oldest golf club: flat, windy parkland that has staged ten SA Opens.
Destination imageryIsland tees, a riverbank of oaks and vineyards on the edge of Stellenbosch.
Gary Player’s private course on the Crocodile River, facing the Kruger Park.
Golf since 1927 under 15,000 trees, with two par threes named after Brigitte Bardot.
Dry riverbeds, olive avenues and only 45 per cent of the land planted.
Destination imageryKyle Phillips’s par 73 with Ménara-style pools and twelve monumental sculptures.
Three nines of red-earth bunkers and seven lakes, set square to the High Atlas.
Destination imageryErnie Els’ par 72 on the Beau Champ lagoon, with six holes on the water’s edge.
Bernhard Langer’s course on its own island, reached only by the club’s shuttle boat.
Destination imageryTwo east-coast resort courses, with the Legends Tour on the Legend each December.
Destination imageryRodney Wright’s west-coast par 72 under the Rempart, with Tamarin Bay from the 7th.
Peter Matkovich’s par 72 on old cane fields, host of the 2026 Mauritius Open.
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