Royal Cape Golf
Course, Wynberg, Cape Town. Founded in 1885, the Royal Cape
Golf Club is South Africa’s oldest and most exclusive club featuring a
course with narrow fairways lined by trees. The Royal Cape Golf Club is
in the , a 15 minute drive from the city centre and from the Cape Town
International Airport.
A true championship course, having hosted the South African Open eleven
times and the South African Amateur Championships eight times, it has
recently undertaken a reconstruction programme of all eighteen greens
strictly to the specifications of the United States Golf Association.
The course today is a fine test of golf especially when the south-easter
is blowing. Essentially it is a flat parkland course, well maintained
and a pleasure to play with lovely views of the Table Mountain range.
The fairways are narrow and tree-lined.
Wayward shots are penalised by trees and the greens are well bunkered.
There is also plenty of water on the course, particularly at the corner
of the 3rd and 4th and 5th holes and also at the 14th, 15th and 16th
holes. The most difficult holes are the par 4 third, at 435m the longest
two-shotter on the course, and the par 4 14th played into the teeth of
the prevailing south-easter with water guarding the right of the green.
The greens are well bunkered and there is plenty of water on the course.
Course Regulations: Appropriate golf attire required. The Golf
Course is reserved for members on Saturdays, closed Good Friday and
Christmas Day. Handicap certificate compulsory. Soft spikes are required
on the golf course.
Did
you know?
the Royal Cape Golf Club is South Africa’s oldest and most exclusive
club featuring a course with narrow fairways lined by trees.
