Houghton Golf Club
The Houghton Golf Club,
one of the most beautiful courses in South Africa is the
Johannesburg suburb of Houghton and noble 1923rd open it is
a temporary race track with a intense experience of nature,
like the park-like course strongly is forested, has a number
of ponds and dams and many flowering shrubs on the edge of
the fairways. This is very beautiful to the eye, but bad for
deformed Balls. In this paradise of birds living in
countries such as Guinea-birds, and Egyptian geese he became
a Bird sanctuary declared.
The place since 1951 on the calendar of the South African
Open, the second since the Second World War were here eight
times Bobby Locke, Gary Player and Ernie Els have already
Made history. Seven holes of 1993 and Matkovich Hayes
converted and implemented a new bunkers Gary Player company.
Here in 1995 at the Alfred Dunhill Challenge, the
competition between Africa and Australia - "Ryder Cup" in
the southern hemisphere.
The dominant grass is Kikuyu, which is nice as a Fairway, a
rough and semi rough, but a nightmare to . Play There are
different types of holes: long par 3 and 4 are supplemented
by shorter, the dog-legs are large, the par-5 holes not
being accessed by two strokes be. The longest hole on the
course is 12, really out of range. Hole 16 is the beginning
of the last beautiful Houghton, the 17-hole if only 145 m
long, but because the green tea is higher than the impact of
more or less blind. All in a good course.
The green fee is based on the number of players of the day
on weekends only if accompanied by a member played. The food
in the clubhouse costs per person 30-110 Edge.
Fritsch caught strong start
Florian Fritsch has a good start in Agadir. The 25-year-old man from Munich,
Soon penalties for slow swingers?
Almost every golfer has probably been on high Lap times are discussed.
Gal holds impressive form
LPGA Tour, Rancho Mirage, California: The U.S. women this week, "Major time."



