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.