Golf courses in and around Johannesburg

Blair Atholl

Lanseria, Johannesburg

Set on Gary Player's former Gauteng farm near Lanseria, Blair Atholl is a Player-designed championship course and one of the longest on earth.

Blue Valley

Midrand, Midrand

Blue Valley is a Gary Player design draped across a small Midrand river valley, known for steeply undulating terrain and a giant shared green.

Bryanston

Bryanston, Johannesburg

Bryanston Country Club is a long parkland course in northern Johannesburg, built to a Charles Hugh Alison design that brings water into play on eleven holes.

Centurion

Centurion Golf Estate, Centurion

Peter Matkovich parkland course through a Centurion estate, with water on ten holes.

Copperleaf

Centurion, Centurion

The first Els Club in South Africa, Copperleaf is Ernie Els's Highveld design set among Centurion grassland and Magaliesberg views.

Dainfern

Fourways, Johannesburg

Dainfern Country Club is an estate course in Fourways designed by Gary Player and Phil Jacobs, routed around the meandering Jukskei River.

Eagle Canyon

Honeydew, Roodepoort

Built across a former granite and sand quarry in Honeydew, Eagle Canyon brings a links feel to Johannesburg's parkland belt.

Ebotse

Rynfield, Benoni

Billed as South Africa's only inland par-72 links course, Ebotse threads through wetlands and open water on the East Rand at Benoni.

Eye of Africa

Eikenhof, Johannesburg

Greg Norman's first South African design, Eye of Africa opened in 2010 across the high, rolling hills south of Johannesburg.

Glendower

Edenvale, Johannesburg

Glendower Golf Club is a mature parkland course in Edenvale, built to a Charles Hugh Alison design and long a South African Open host.

Glenvista

Glenvista, Johannesburg

A parkland course in a well-watered valley below the Klipriviersberg ridge, designed by Sid Brews and opened by Gary Player in 1973.

Houghton

Houghton Estate, Johannesburg

Houghton is a Jack Nicklaus signature course opened in 2010 on a mature, undulating estate minutes north of central Johannesburg.

Huddle Park

Linksfield, Johannesburg

Huddle Park is a public golf and recreation park in Linksfield, set on wetland with three dams on the site of a onetime 54-hole complex.

Irene

Centurion, Pretoria

One of Pretoria's oldest clubs, Irene Country Club is a mature parkland course with the Hennops River winding through its historic grounds.

Jackal Creek

Northriding, Randburg

A public parkland course in Northriding, Randburg, Jackal Creek plays over rolling, elevated ground with water in play on several holes.

Killarney

Lower Houghton, Johannesburg

One of Johannesburg's oldest golf clubs, tracing its origins to 1903, and the only Robert Trent Jones design in South Africa.

Kyalami

Midrand, Johannesburg

One of the region's older parkland courses, Kyalami opened in 1955 on gently undulating ground between Johannesburg and Pretoria, with unusually narrow, tree-lined fairways.

Modderfontein

Modderfontein, Johannesburg

A parkland course laid out in 1935 on the grounds of the old Modderfontein Dynamite Factory, with a river running through its valley.

Parkview

Parkview, Johannesburg

Founded in 1916, Parkview threads a narrow parkland corridor along the Braamfontein Spruit through the leafy suburbs of northern Johannesburg.

Randpark Bushwillow

Randpark Ridge, Johannesburg

Bushwillow is Randpark's second eighteen, a shady Bob Grimsdell parkland course lined with mature trees and gentler than its Firethorn sibling.

Randpark Firethorn

Randpark Ridge, Johannesburg

Firethorn is Randpark's championship layout, a tree-lined par 72 rebuilt in 2015 that has staged both the SA Open and the Joburg Open.

Reading

Alberton, Johannesburg

A tight, tree-lined parkland course in Alberton laid out by eight-time SA Open champion Sid Brews, with water in play on 14 holes.

Royal Joburg East

Linksfield North, Johannesburg

Royal Johannesburg's East is a Bob Grimsdell parkland championship course and one of the longest layouts used on the European Tour's African swing.

Royal Joburg West

Linksfield North, Johannesburg

The West is Royal Johannesburg's original 1909 layout by Laurie Waters, a shorter, recently rebuilt parkland companion to the championship East.

Ruimsig

Roodepoort, Johannesburg

Gary Player and Ron Kirby laid out Ruimsig on fairly open West Rand ground in the mid-1980s, giving it an almost inland-links character.

Serengeti

Kempton Park, Kempton Park

Set beside OR Tambo International at Kempton Park, Serengeti's championship layout is a Jack Nicklaus Signature course opened in 2009.

Silver Lakes

Silver Lakes, Pretoria

A Peter Matkovich design opened in 1993, Silver Lakes threads its par-72 holes through a secure Pretoria-East estate dotted with dams.

Wanderers

Illovo, Johannesburg

Dating to 1939, Wanderers is a compact, mature parkland course in Illovo whose original opening holes were later surrendered to the neighbouring cricket stadium.