Klerksdorp Golf Club

Overview: The Schoonspruit frames an 18-hole parkland layout at Klerksdorp Golf Club shaped by the Schoonspruit and the long history of golf in the city. The course layout describes a first nine that crosses the park area and a second nine with a different sequence of par fives and par threes. Water and the spruit are repeatedly part of the shot line, so the course rewards a player who treats position and approach angles as carefully as distance.

History: Klerksdorp Golf Club was established in 1889 and is described by the club as one of the oldest clubs in the former Transvaal. It began as a nine-hole course with unusual blougrond greens and later developed into the current 18-hole layout. Floods, drought, and water supply shaped that evolution, making the course history as much about persistence as about formal design changes.

Did You Know? The 16th hole requires a crossing of the Schoonspruit before the green, while the 18th is a reachable par five finishing in full view of the clubhouse. Those two holes make the closing stretch easy to remember: one demands precision over water, the other invites a confident final attack.