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Ranking: RNR (Recommended not Ranked)
Rating: M – 72, W – 70
Designer: Tom Weiskopf
Holes: 18
Type: Links/Coastal Forest

The Zimbali Golf Club is an 18-hole course that has developed the reputation of a memorable course with charisma and challenge, and offers irresistible ocean and forest views, exceptional water and wetland features and a natural setting.

International golf course designer and former British and South African PGA champion, Tom Weiskopf, had to integrate a “cart only” course into a property with dramatic elevation changes, varying eco-systems and substantial residential sections. The entrance of the modern, colonial-styled clubhouse is dominated with the remains of a ruined farmhouse framed around an ageing wild fig tree.      
 
Zimbali Country Club Facilities:

• Open Mondays
• Visitors welcome every day – bookings essential
• Pro shop
• Driving range
• Golf club hire
• Golf Carts
• Halfway house
• Putting greens
• Bar & lounge facilities
• Restaurant
• Corporate entertainment facilities

Contact Details for Zimbali Country Club:

Tel: +27 (0) 32 538 1041 / +27 (0) 83 212 7686
Email: zbl.proshop@fairmont.com / dan.debruyn@fairmont.com
Website: www.zimbali.co.za

Address:
Zimbali Country Club
On M4, 1km from Ballito
Central & North Coast
KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa

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Ranking: RNR (Recommended not Ranked)
Rating: 60
Designer: Peter Matkovich
Holes: 18
Type: -

The Simbithi Country Club’s 18-hole Executive Course was created by well known golf course designer Peter Matkovitch, and it incorporates dams, bunkers and water features, with an abundance of wildlife.

The exclusive golf Course on the Simbithi Eco-Estate is designed to offer a thoroughly enjoyable golf experience for both young and old, and lower and higher handicap players. A clubhouse and restaurant facility is the central gathering point for residents on the Simbithi Eco-Estate. The facility also provide an array of subsidiary sporting facilities, with tennis courts, a large swimming pool and a squash court adding to the country club feel.
 
Simbithi Country Club Facilities:

• Open Mondays
• Visitors welcome every day
• Pro shop
• Putting & chipping greens
• Golf club hire
• Carts
• Pull Trolleys
• Caddies available
• Club house
• Restaurant

Contact Details for Simbithi Country Club:

Tel: +27 (0) 32 525 4632
Email: waynehill@simbithi.com
Website: www.simbithi.com/estate

Address:
Simbithi Country Club
Shaka’s Rock Road
Ballito
KwaZulu-Natal Central & North Coast
South Africa

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Ranking: RNR (Recommended not Ranked)
Rating: 72
Designer: Matkovich & Hayes
Holes: – 18
Type: -

Ebotse Golf and Country Estate provides an 18 hole, RNR ranked golf course that offers you an unprecedented golfing experience and it’s guaranteed that you will want to come back for more. The course boasts a truly unique driving range and a 40 hectare man-made lake with an abundance of bird life. This golf course has 7 holes on water and has been built to US PGA specifications. The Estate is located only 15 minutes away from OR Tambo International, and a mere 30 minutes from Johannesburg, Sandton and Pretoria.
 
Directions to the Ebotse Golf & Country Estate is from the N12 towards Witbank,  turn left into Pretoria Road and then right into Sarel Cilliers Street.
 
Ebotse Golf & Country Estate Facilities:

• Clubhouse
• Pro shop
• Driving range
• Putting green
• Carts
• Function facilities
• Bar

Contact Details for Ebotse Golf & Country Estate:

Tel: +27 (0) 86 070 0007
Email: golf@ebotsegolf.com
Website: www.ebotsegolf.com

Address:
Ebotse Golf & Country Estate
Main entrance in Sarel Celliers Street
Rynfield
Benoni
Gauteng East
South Africa

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Ranking: RNR Recommended not Ranked)
Rating: M – 71, W – 72
Designer: Bob Grimsdell / Re-design Golf Data
Holes: 18
Type: Parklands

The picturesque Victoria Country Club (Est 1859) is ideally located in the scenic parklands adjoining the Queen Elizabeth Nature Reserve, less than 5 minutes from the CBD of Pietermaritzburg. The course has been upgraded by Golf Data, and is now able to offer a world-class golfing experience all year round. The upgrading included the total reshaping and reconstruction, to USGA specification, of all the greens, 3 new impressive and attractive waterholes, and a fully automated irrigation system was installed.

The Victoria Country Club is an 18-hole course that is RNR ranked, and located less than 5 minutes from Pietermaritzburg CBD. Other sports activities available at the Victoria Country Club, is tennis, swimming, snooker, squash and accommodation.
 
Victoria Country Club Facilities:

• Open Mondays
• Visitors welcome every day
• Pro shop
• Golf club hire
• Carts
• Pull Trolleys
• Caddies available
• Bar
• Board Room
• Function Facilities
• Halfway House
• Restaurant
• Reciprocity: Eshowe, Royal JHB & Kensington, Kloof, CCJ, Rand, Kimberley, Stellenbosch

Contact Details for Victoria Country Club:

Tel: +27 (0) 33 347 1394/1942
Email: enquiries@victoria.co.za
Website: www.victoria.co.za

Address:
Victoria Country Club
Duncan Mackenzie Drive
Midlands & Drakensberg
KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa

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Ranking: RNR (Recommended not Ranked)
Rating: M – 72, W – 68
Designer: Jack Nicklaus
Holes: 18
Type: -

The Simola Golf Course is a Jack Nicklaus signature course, and remains one of South Africa’s leading golf courses. It is a fun, yet challenging championship course, set in stunning surrounds, with a lack of wind due to the fact that it lies below high ridges. All the holes provide players with amazing views of the Knysna Lagoon, the Heads, or the Knysna River.

Directions to the Simola Golf & Country Estate, is take the N2 from George following Lagoon into Knysna, turn left into Old Cape Road and travel for approximately 6 km up the hill to Simola.

Simola Golf & Country Estate Facilities:

• Open Mondays
• Visitors welcome every day
• Pro shop
• Driving range
• Golf club hire
• Carts
• Reciprocity: Pecanwood, St Francis Links & Pearl Valley

Contact Details for Simola Golf & Country Estate:

Tel: +27 (0) 44 382 0944
Email: golf@simolaestate.co.za
Website: www.simolaestate.co.za

Address:
Simola Golf & Country Estate
No 1 Old Cape Route
Knysna
Garden Route & Southern Cape
Western Cape
South Africa

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