Kloof Country Club

Overview: In the green hills west of Durban, Kloof Country Club offers a parkland round shaped by wooded ground and changing elevation. The current layout covers 18 holes, while the club presents it as a course of natural beauty and individual hole character rather than a uniform estate design. Mature vegetation and sloping ground make route choice important, especially when a good position off the tee determines how much of a green can be seen.

History: The golf history begins with Tom Field’s work in 1926. Stafford Vere Hotchkin later re-imagined the property as an 18-hole course in 1929, which is the key date for the current routing tradition. Those two stages explain why Kloof has a longer design story than a simple opening-year field suggests. The course remains tied to the club’s established identity in the Durban hills.

Did You Know? Kloof’s name is a useful description of the setting as well as the club identity. The course’s ravines, slopes and wooded ground create changes in elevation that influence how a golfer reads each hole, so the best strategy is often to work with the contours instead of trying to overpower them.