Fancourt Country Club

The Fancourt Hotel & Country Club Estate is a real Luxury Golf Resort is located in the heart of the Garden Route in the Shadow of the Outeniqua mountains. The property that only South African member of the "Great Golf Resorts of the World" is one of the founders of SAP Hasso Plattner. The property not only has three 18-hole courses, but also have a Luxury hotel, conference center, four restaurants, Swimming pools and tennis courts. Play can only persons that are on the system. The International Hotel Association has the best Fancourt Golf Resort in South Africa and selected Hasso Plattner's goal is in 2005 come to world's top 100 golf courses. All three courses (Montagu, Outeniqua and The Links) are of Gary Player, a fourth (Bramble Hill) is to open in 2001.

Montagu's Place:

This course is preferred by experts: the Putt-Bent-grass are often very fast, the landing areas and large greens are guarded by bunkers. Hole 6, Par 3, 149 Meter requires a drop from the elevated tee on a peninsula green. Hole 8, Par 5's, with 470 meters down completely green with water left and behind. The 17 hole was modeled in the twelfth hole Augusta. The entire Is surrounded by the beautiful scenery of the Outeniqua mountains. The area was originally flat and large earth moving in its present structure assigned. Key features are the water hazards Bebunkerten and large greens.

Outeniqua course:

The No. 2 is not quite as spectacular Fancourt difficult as the big brother, but still a class Place: water, valleys, rolling fairways and thick trees. The holes were short of bunkers balanced. It was finalized in 1997.

The Links:

This course was also in November 2001, by Gary Player designed. More than 700,000 cubic meters of earth moved be had to create a links course, he could in Ireland and Scotland. The fairways are Kentucky, Rye, Fescue and Bent grass covers the Majority of the green with Bent grass. Worth mentioning is the second hole, par 3, with a bunker in the middle of the green. In November 1992, at the Fancourt Country Club Presidents Cup instead.