8 Stories Published
Golf & Nature
Your Winter, Our Summer
November to February is the northern golfer’s off-season and KwaZulu-Natal’s summer. The first of a six-part series on the courses of this coast, the season they play in, and what the heat asks of you.
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Course Profile
Zimbali Lakes: A Course in Its Second Summer
South Africa’s newest course has had one summer. Bentgrass greens on a humid coast, an 18th that tees off from one of the course’s highest points, and irrigation that uses no drinking water.
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Course Profile
Prince’s Grant: The Hole to Talk About Is the 16th
Everyone photographs the 15th. The hole with the history is the next one, on ground that was once a rice plantation, on a Victorian land grant near KwaDukuza.
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Course Profile
Zimbali Country Club: Two Flat Holes and a Forest
Only two of the eighteen holes are flat. Tom Weiskopf’s cart course on the north coast, the greens it replanted, and a policy change that lets visitors book again.
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Course Profile
Mount Edgecombe: The Mill Is Gone, the Golf Stayed
A sugar mill stood on this land for well over a century. The mill is gone; two golf courses and the temples stayed. A course profile from north of Durban.
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Course Profile
Durban Country Club: The Tour Comes Back, and So Does the Question
Built after one flood and rebuilt after another. In February 2027 the Alfred Dunhill Championship tests the bentgrass greens in the Durban summer. The last of the six.
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Course Profile
Leopard Creek: Where the Fairway Ends and Kruger Begins
Gary Player’s championship course sits on the southern boundary of Kruger National Park. The 13th green sits 32 metres above the Crocodile River, and the far bank is Kruger territory.
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Golf & Nature
Skukuza: The Golf Course Inside the Kruger, Where the Wildlife Has Right of Way
A nine-hole course inside the Kruger National Park. No fences, no bunkers, and hippos near the fairways.
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