Eastern Cape Golf Club Details
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Wedgwood Park Country Club
Wedgwood is a parkland course designed by George Grimsdale in the late forties. The layout of the course is second to none. The GM classic was hosted here in the sixties and seventies. The course was frequented by players such as Gary Player, Lee Travito and Seve Balasteros etc. Gary played his 100th tournament at Wedgwood. The course is surrounded by trees and has very generous fairways. The course is now being modernized to meet the new demands of a championship course.
| Green fees: | From £5.00 to £7.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 74 |
| Yardage: | 6325m |
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East London Golf Club, East London
The East London Golf course nestles against the dunes of the famous Nahoon Beach and to the south, the leafy Marina Glen, and is one of the oldest and proudest clubs in South Africa. Spectacular course, laid on scrub covered duneland along the ocean with breathtaking views. No water hazards on this course. Hosted the South African open seven times and also South African Amateur more than once. Every year one of the top ten courses in the country.
| Green fees: | From £28.00 to £32.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 73 |
| Yardage: | 6438m |
| Website: | www.eastlondonsa.com |
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Royal Port Alfred Golf Club, Port Alfred
Old-fashioned up-and-down seaside course, with lots of short par 4s but also some very intimidating holes. Small, tricky greens can make scoring difficult on a windy day. Unusual for South Africa in that you play 13 holes before returning to the clubhouse. Previously used to hold championship matches, today the popular course for tourists because of its magnificent location. Non-members welcome.
| Green fees: | From £13.00 to £16.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 72 |
| Yardage: | 5771m |
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Walmer Country Club, Port Elizabeth
A demanding 54 year old course that features three water holes that house a variety of birds with meerkats and tortoises never too far away. Walmer Country Club is a standard 18 holes configuration with fairways running predominantly in West and East directions. The front Nine is the most challenging.
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West Bank Golf Club, East London
This course is situated on the West Bank of the Buffalo River and is six kilometers from the City Hall. Laid out on a headland, which encloses the Hood Point Lighthouse and West Bank cemetery, it affords magnificent view over both land and sea. The westward view from the 18th tee, showing Shelly Beach and in the foreground Cove Rock in the distance is glorious and always commented on by visitors. The links reminds one strongly of those on the coast of England and Scotland, for at no time is a player out of sight of the sea.
| Green fees: | From £12.00 to £17.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 72 |
| Yardage: | 5782m |
| Website: | www.westbankgc.co.za |
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Fish River Sun Golf Club, Port Alfred
Another successful Gary Player design course. A "semi-links" course. Remote and challenging layout built close to the Indian Ocean with superb bent grass greens.
| Green fees: | From £32.00 to £36.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 72 |
| Yardage: | 5770m |
| Website: | www.suninternational.co.za |
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Humewood Golf Club, Port Elizabeth
It is situated on the sand dunes on the shores of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth. The fairways are exposed, undulating and wide to compensate for strong winds, bunkers are few with steep faces, greens are firm and fast, the rough is thick coastal bush and there are no water hazards. The prevailing south-easterly and westerly winds will demand all your golfing skills.
| Green fees: | From £29.00 to £34.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 72 |
| Yardage: | 6225m |
| Website: | www.humewoodgolf.co.za |
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Port Elizabeth Golf Club, Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth Golf Club, founded in 1980, is the most sought after member golf club in Port Elizabeth and Eastern Province. It is the second oldest registered golf club in South Africa. The 18 hole Parkland golf course with spectacular gardens and greens provides golfers with the only pure Bent grass greens in the greater Port Elizabeth area.
| Green fees: | From £25.00 to £30.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 72 |
| Yardage: | 6117m |
| Website: | www.pegolf.co.za |
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Walmer Golf Club, Port Elizabeth
One of the older clubs in the region, with a unique eagle sculpture on the fairway cut out of a tree which was struck by lightning. Very friendly staff with a lovely atmosphere.
| Green fees: | From £8.00 to £12.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 68 |
| Yardage: | 5477m |
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The Wild Coast Sun Country Club, Wild Coast
The Wild Coast Sun Country Club is a rugged beauty of a course. Carts are compulsory but this does not detract from the competitive challenge. The course may be a daunting challenge for professionals and amateurs alike but its wide fairways and huge greens, attract golfers of all levels. At first glance, the score card might suggest that this course is a bit of a push-over, less than 6000 metres in length with six par threes. On face value this might seem so but in reality the Wild Coast Sun Country Club is one of South Africa's most testing layouts. Indeed renowned American golf course architect, Robert Trent Jones Jnr has created a dramatic golfing experience overlooking the Ocean. Possible the greatest challenge is to conquer the prevailing winds which add an entirely new dimension to the course. Some of South Africa's finest and certainly most dramatic golf holes can be found here. The thirteenth, a par 3 played across a waterfall is generally regarded the best short hole in the country. And for drama nothing can match the outstanding par 5, twelfth. Here the drive is hit from a high elevated tee to a fairway far below that snakes its way through a valley flanked by a dam and stream on the left with a natural hillock on the right. The more of the river you take on with your drive the easier the approach to the green, an excellent example of a risk and reward par 5.
| Green fees: | Resident - From £27.00 to £32.00 for 18 holes
Visitor - From £33.00 to £40.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | 70 |
| Yardage: | 5870m |
| Website: | www.sun-international.com |
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Bushman Sands Golf Course
The course has been designed by South African golfing legend, Gary Player. The course follows the banks of the Bushman's and New Years Rivers, resembling the game's earliest "links" courses in Scotland with undulating fairways and pot bunkers. A challenging yet friendly course.
| Green fees: | From £23.00 to £27.00 for 18 holes |
| Par: | Course is a 10 hole course, last 8 holes will be open in October 2005 |
| Yardage: | to be added |
| Website: | www.bushmansands.com |
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