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GAUTENG GOLF
Blair Atholl
The 18-hole Gary Player Signature design course, Blair Athol, is one of the finest golf courses in South Africa, as well as throughout the world. Gary Player’s family have had their family home here for 25 years so when Player decided to develop this into a golf estate it wasn’t just another project to add to the list of over 200 golf courses he has developed worldwide. This really was a personal labour of love. The result is probably one of the finest golfing experiences you could have anywhere in the world and it certainly will rival Player’s lovely courses at Sun City and Leopard Creek for the title of the best course in South Africa.
The golf course has been designed in such a manner that the routing has allowed for eleven water featured holes. Whether alongside the Crocodile River or natural dams, these holes have unique aesthetical appearances and Gary Player has created wonderful features enchancing the playability, shot value, variety and resistance to scoring. The design, both challenging and rewarding, will allow for the testing of scratch players, yet still ensuring enjoyment for handicapped golfers. The course length will be in excess of 7700m from the back tees and at present be the longest course designed in South Africa. The design has the course playing as a single loop, with halfway house set over the Crocodile River after the 8th hole. Being a single loop, all bar the 18th and 1st, do not have any hole running side by side, making the experience unique for the golfer.
Selecting a signature hole will be difficult as there are so many potentially great holes with design features and existing natural features. Some of these features include a hundred and fifty year old water canal that weaves its way through the course, through the 3rd tee complex, behind the 8th green, alongside the 9th tee and supplies the main dam in front of the 17th green, tee and behind the 1st green. The Crocodile River that meanders adjacent to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 16th holes hosts a large community of different sedges and water plants that supports and abundance of bird life. Magnificent views of the oldest mountain range in the world, "The Magalies", and the Cradle of Mankind await players at the elevated points. A variety of massive trees can be found throughout the routing and part of the design is to add thousands of large, new trees.
This course is open to its members and their guests only.
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LOCATION
Blair Atholl is set just outside Johannesburg about 2.5 km north of Lanseria Airport and a short drive from the smart suburbs of Fourways and Sandton.
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