It’s a long drive to reach Sishen from just about wherever you may live in SA, yet the course has such a growing appeal that numerous tour groups arrive throughout the year to experience one of the world’s remotest top courses. They leave with plenty of respect. I’ve visited four times in the last three years, so know the layout reasonably well by now, yet its challenging holes continue to frustrate me. Those impressive kameeldoring trees that line the fairways and protect several greens are difficult to avoid. The three holes with water hazards fronting the greens seem tame by comparison. Sishen is not just defined by its unique geographical position in the arid Northern Cape, though. It would be a great course wherever it be situated, due to all its memorable holes and uniformly creative greens complexes. The first two holes head west, but a strength of the layout is that thereafter you constantly switch direction on every tee box.
