Possibly the most playable and fairest of the seven Jack Nicklaus courses in South Africa for the average golfer. Pecanwood was his first design here and it doesn’t have the tricky undulating greens of his others, narrow playing corridors or testing changes in elevation. Water hazards only guard two greens on each nine. It is a flat property. Nicklaus has nevertheless been creative with it through the use of attractive greens complexes of varying sizes, numerous bunkers, and deep ones at that. Yet intelligent course management and straight shots can comfortably avoid them. Most Nicklaus layouts have a safe side of the fairway where you can bail out rather than taking aggressive tiger lines, and that applies as much at Pecanwood as at Simola or Serengeti.