It’s the windy season in Cape Town, and golfers can expect the south-easter to blow at varying speeds most days of the week. Mowbray has been cleverly designed to deflect the strength of the wind as much as possible. You don’t play straight into the full force of the wind other than on two holes, one of them being the opening short 4, which is a challenge even at 305m from the back. The fairway doglegs right around a small forest of trees, and anything in there is usually an automatic pitch back to the fairway. A fairway finder still leaves a testing medium iron into a well-protected green. No 12 also plays into the wind, and a 346m par 4 feels like it’s more than 400. Again, the fairway looks narrow standing on the tee. On other holes golfers are contending with cross winds, and these have their own challenges. Yet even on the windiest of days this is a most playable layout with a rich variety of holes to enjoy.
