Cape Town Golf

[Bratty]

Hi folks,

I've done a couple of searches, but couldn't find much so posting to ask for advice.

I'm off to Cape Town with the wife, but she'll be finishing her thesis for her MBA, so I've been told I can play golf most days.

Which of these is worth playing:
Atlantic Beach
Royal Cape
Rondebosch

Probably won't have a car, so needs to be close to Camps Bay (which these are around 30 mins from).

Cheers!

 

[GeneralStore]

Atlantic Beach will be very windy on most days, I would rather try the other 2. Rondebosch is good value for money and a decent course, and Royal Cape is also good, and quite upmarket.

If you are staying in Camps Bay, you can get to:
Steenberg (awesome course) in about 40 minutes
Pearl Valley (best course) in about 1 hour
Metropolitan (easy course, 9 hole loop) in about 15 minutes

Steenberg and Pearl Valley are 2 of the best courses in Africa, Royal Cape is definitely worth trying

Hope that helps

 

[m1975]

i played at erinvale when i went to cape town, lovely course, front 9 surrounded a bit by apartments but back 9 going towards mountains very nice and some great views
it was a few years ago but i don't think it was too far from cape town, would recommend the course to anyone

 

[Bratty]

Cheers, guys. I'll check out those others you mention.

 

[USER1999]

Erinvale is nice, as is stellenbosch, and pearl valley is awesome. Club house was a porta cabin when I played there, but I gather it is a bit different now. Get the hotel to transport you, and you can get anywhere. They normally have a driver. Don't let him put his music on the cd though. Mine was happy clappy god bothering stuff. Drove me nuts.

Had the worlds worst caddy at erinvale too. Clueless. Fun though.

 

[GeneralStore]

Pearl Valley is just amazing now, everything has been built, course is always in good condition, real grass driving range, practise facilities are just brilliant. You are right about Stellenbosch, also a nice course.

Caddies are different in South Africa, they are generally just used to carry your bag and to go and look for your ball in the rough (loads of snakes, especially at Pearl Valley, so you dont want to be doing that), they arent the advice giving kind of caddies.

Went to play Pearl Valley on a monster hang over, had rolled out of bed 15 minutes before tee off, wanted something to eat and didnt have the time, so they asked me what I wanted and then brought it to me on the 3rd tee. World Class!