White 5744 metres, CR71.0/132
Blue 5217 metres, CR67.8/128
Women’s Red 5102 metres, CR72.1/125
R350, golf cart R340
R260 Monday, Tuesday
Sid Brews 1948
039 695 0140
www.pscc.co.za
The oldest golf club on the KZN South Coast, founded in 1915, and boasting a charming course of wonderful variety. It’s also one of the longer South Coast courses, at 5 830 metres, and hosted the 2015 KZN Open for the country’s leading amateurs as part of its centenary celebrations.
The course sits on the banks of the broad Mzimkhulu River as it flows into the Indian Ocean. The river is close and threatening, with flooding over the years, the worst being in May 1959 when the country club was practically washed away.
It’s a golf course of two contrasting nines, probably due to the fact that it began as a 9-hole course in the 1920s, before extending to 18 in 1948. The shorter front nine is tree-lined and tight, and wanders into the surrounding indigenous forest, while the back nine is closer to the ocean – which unfortunately cannot be seen from any hole – and has an open links feel to it. It is quirky and old-fashioned, yet enormous fun to play. The longest par 4 is 377 metres (No 16), yet the holes can play long in any kind of sea breeze.
62 by Jesse Verster in 2005
2020 Phiwe Mkhoma & Kim Strauss
2019 Daan Swanepoel & Kim Strauss
Short-game area and warm-up nets. Cricket field used as range when not in use.
1/ This is a proper country club, with a cricket oval, bowls and squash, family activities, and live music at weekends.
2/ In May each year the Restoration Cup competition commemorates the 1959 flood, and the gratitude of Port Shepstone CC for the help provided by other South Coast golf clubs and those further afield which raised funds to re-establish the golf course and clubhouse.
3/ Tristen Strydom, a Sunshine Tour pro, won 2015 KZN Open with 18-under 270. He had low round of 65.
4/ For five consecutive years (2015-2019) it was voted Best South Coast Course in the Reader’s Choice awards.
5/ Sunshine Tour’s Jaco van Zyl was a Port Shepstone member when he won 2000 SA Amateur at East London.
6/ Wayne Fairbairn had a hole-in-one at short par-4 fourth in 2004, one of 10 albatrosses recorded.
Conditioning RatingsFacility RatingsTwo different nine-hole layouts. The course is very playable, and has some challenging holes to test your game. The course is dry, especially the tees.
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