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Ranking: Platinum (Exceptional)
Rating: 72
Designer: Jack Nicklaus
Holes: 18
Type: Parklands

Pecanwood Golf & Country Club is a platinum ranked, 18-hole golf course with generous fairways, water features, strategically placed bunkers and immaculate greens all year round. With design excellence and high quality maintenance combined, Pecanwood is appealing and playable to most levels of golfers. It is also a world class teaching academy.The club is located on the south-eastern side of Hartebeespoort Dam.

Directions to the Pecan Golf & Country Club is travel to Hartebeespoort Dam (from JHB take the N1 direction Roodepoort), turn off at William Nicol Road and turn right over the freeway. Travel past Monte Casino and Dainfern Ridge and pass underneath the R28 highway (at Diepsloot), turn left (Hennops Rivier Road) on the R511 (at the big Sun City sign). Pass over the dam wall to the 4-way stop. Turn left at the stop street and continue to the Sandton turn-off (R512). Turn left onto the R512, direction Sandton and pass over the Western side of the dam. Turn left at the T-junction. The golf club is situated immediately to the left.

Pecanwood Golf & Country Club Facilities:

• High mounds
• Not Open Mondays (except during school holidays)
• Visitors welcome every day
• Book 7 days in advance to play Saturdays & Sundays
• Pro shop
• Driving range
• Golf club hire
• Carts
• Pull Trolleys
• No Caddies
• Reciprocity: Simola, St Francis Links, Pearl Valley

Contact Details for Pecanwood Golf & Country Club:

Tel:+27 (0) 12 244 8000
Email: craig@pecanwood.biz
Website: www.pecanwoodgolf.co.za

Address:
Pecanwood Golf & Country Club
R512, Hartbeespoort
Bojanala
North West Province
South Africa

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Ranking: Platinum (Exceptional)
Rating (Par): 72
Designer: Gary Player
Holes: 18
Type: Coastal Golf Course/Parklands

The Fish River Country Club has breathtaking views of the Indian Ocean from several of its holes, and offers golfers challenges along the beautiful and unspoiled coast. The Fish River golf course is an 18-hole, platinum ranked and beautifully kept course.

This is a Parklands course and not a Links, but when the wind blows, it offers a great challenge to all handicaps. The fairways are boardered by a natural thick coastal vegetation and rolling sand dunes and there are several drives across the Old Woman’s River. 

Fish River Country Club Facilities:

• Open Mondays
• Visitors welcome every day
• Pro shop
• Golf club hire
• Carts
• Pull Trolleys
• Caddies available
• Reciprocity – Royal Port Alfred, White River
• Accommodation – Fish River Sun Hotel & Country Club Resort

Contact Details for Fish River Country Club:

Tel: +27 (0) 40 676 1002
Email: fishsun@sunint.co.za / fmarais@sunint.co.za
Website: www.suninternational.co.za

Address:
Fish River Country Club
Port Alfred
On the R72 coastal road between Port Alfred & East London
Eastern Cape
South Africa

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Ranking: Platinum (Exceptional)
Rating (Par): M – 72, W – 71
Designer: Gary Player
Holes: 18
Type: Parklands

The Leopard Creek Golf Course is a platinum ranked, championship golf course located in Malelane, Mpumalanga Lowveld. The Course was specifically designed to blend in with the surroundings, and is working closely with the Kruger National Park and nature conservation authorities to keep this an undisturbed, natural environment. The course is a paradise for bird-watchers and a challenge for golfers, and golfing hazards take on a new dimension, for much of the water is home to hippos and crocodile.

Leopard Creek Golf Club Facilities:

• Open Mondays
• Visitors not allowed, only hotel residents and guests of members permitted
• Pro shop
• Driving range
• Golf club hire
• Carts
• No Caddies allowed
• Accommodation – Malelane Sun Hotel

Contact Details for Leopard Creek Golf Club:

Tel: +27 (0) 13 791 2000
Email: dmurdoch@mweb.co.za
Website: www.leopardcreek.com

Address:
Leopard Creek Golf Club
Malelane Gate
Lowveld
Mpumalanga
South Africa

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Ranking: Platinum (Exceptional)
Rating (Par): 71
Designer: Ronald Fream & David Dale
Holes: 18
Type: Links

The Pezula Championship Golf Course is situated east of Knysna on the Garden Route on sweeping coastal cliffs. It lies high above the Indian Ocean and Knysna lagoon – a terrain of rolling fairways, fynbos and greens completely surrounded by bunkers that makes it a very difficult course to walk, and therefore panic golf carts are provided for all golfers. The course provides 5 different tee options on every hole to cater for players of all skill levels, and it is designed to include a full range of shots, making it a challenging, rewarding and complete golf experience.

Pezula Championship Course Facilities:

• Open Mondays
• Visitors welcome every day subject to availability
• (except last Monday of the month – subject to change)
• Club house
• Short game facility
• Pro shop
• Golf club hire
• Carts all inclusive
• No caddies
• Accommodation – Pezula Resort Hotel & Spa, Sparrebosch self-catering

Contact Details for Pezula Championship Course:

Tel: +27 (0) 44 302 5307/5310
Email: golf@pezula.com
Website: www.pezula.com

Address:
Pezula Championship Course
Lagoonview Drive East Head
Knysna
Garden Route & Southern Cape
Western Cape
South Africa

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Ranking: Platinum (Exceptional)
Rating (Par): M – 70, W – 72
Designer: Gary Player
Holes: 18
Type: Bushveld

The Lost City Golf Course is an 18-hole desert-style golf course with beautiful views across the bushveld, and with the Royal Palace looming in the background, playing at the Lost City is a memorable experience. Unique to this course are the real crocodiles at the 13th hole making this one of the most unusual golf resorts in the world. The Lost City Golf Course is a fantastic golf experience for golfers of varying standards with its wide fairways and receptive greens.

Lost City Golf Club Facilities:

• Not Open Tuesdays
• Visitors welcome every day – subject to availability
• Pro shop
• Driving range
• Golf club hire
• Carts are compulsary
• Caddies optional
• Accommodation – Sun City Cabanas, Sun City Hotel, Cascades, The Palace

Contact Details for Lost City Golf Club:

Tel: +27 (0) 14 557 1245/6
Email: olegoale@sunint.co.za
Website: www.suninternational.com

Address:
Lost City Golf Club
Sun City Resort
North West Province
South Africa

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