Yellow 5997 metres, CR72.0/123
White 5605 metres, CR70.0/120
Red 4977 metres, CR67.2/110
Women’s white, CR75.8/135
Women’s red, CR72.9/128
R390 affiliated
R590 non-affiliated
R385 Sundays
Golf cart R420
Golf Data 1994
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This modern-looking course in 1994 replaced the club’s original layout on the dunes of the False Bay shoreline. It’s close to the Strand beachfront, but without any sea views. Although built on a flat, inland site, it’s a varied and challenging parkland design, particularly in windy conditions, with a strong par-5 18th in front of the clubhouse. A large water hazard guards the right hand side of the fairway and another the front of an undulating raised green.
The club, which has an attractive double-storey clubhouse with good facilities, will be celebrating its centenary in November 2023
Water hazards, streams and dams are a feature of a layout built by Golf Data on a low-lying vlei, particularly on the back nine where they come into play on two exceptionally testing par 3s, Nos 14 and 17.
The tree-lined front nine has an unusual variety of different holes, dogleg par-5s, driveable par-4s and testing par-3s, while seven holes on the back nine are played on the other side of a highway, reached by a tunnel after playing the tenth. The course is renowned for good quality and slick greens.
The par 5s are among the more interesting and testing holes. To play them without a bogey is a feat. The second is short but has two large trees with wide canopies in the middle of the fairway, about 100 metres apart, which can snag golf balls. The fifth zig-zags through trees with a green on the edge of a hazard. No 16 is long and straight, played into the prevailing wind, with a cluster of bunkers near the green. And No 18, the longest at 508 metres, is usually played into the wind
63 by Francois Olivier 2007;
Christiaan Bezuidenhout 2013 WP Champs
2023 Gideon van der Vyver & Lynette Brink
2022 WP Botha & Lynette Brink
2021 WP Botha & Lynette Brink
2020 Elmo Barnard & Tania Jacobson
2019 Elmo Barnard & Erna Truter
Range close to clubhouse is open to the public, and offers membership packages.
1/ Strand was the site in 2004 of Ashleigh Simon’s historic first SA Women’s Strokeplay and Matchplay double at age 14. She remains the youngest winner of the national titles. It is a regular tournament venue for amateurs, and Christiaan Bezuidenhout won the Western Province strokeplay and matchplay double in 2013. He had a 63 in the third round, and beat Haydn Porteous in a playoff.
2/ Deon Germishuys became the first Strand member to win the SA Amateur, at Durban CC in 2018, yet he never won the club championship. He is now a winner on the Sunshine Tour.
3/ Parts of the old Strand course now form part of the mini 9-hole Greenways Golf Estate on the seafront towards Gordon’s Bay.
4/ Strand might be the only golf course in the country with a Putt-Putt facility, situated behind the range.
5/ Lynette Brink has won the women’s club championship 19 times over 27 years, from her 30s to her 60s. The first was in 1996, and the latest in 2023. She won eight in a row from 2010 to 2017. Elmo Barnard won the men’s title four years in a row from 2017 to 2020.
6/ Former Strand member Chloe Garner won the 2019 women’s World Long Drive title with 347 yards in Oklahoma.
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