Lichtenburg Golf Club

Overview: Lichtenburg Golf Club is a full 18-hole, par-72 course in the North West town of Lichtenburg. The available scorecard lists 6,539 yards, with a conventional two-nine structure that mixes par fours and par fives with three-par holes. Its location on the town’s golf corridor makes it a regional club course rather than a resort estate, and the layout is listed in South Africa’s official course-rating records. For golfers crossing the grain-growing country west of Johannesburg, Lichtenburg is one of the established places to find a complete round.

History: A dependable opening date and architect are not identified in the sources reviewed, so the profile avoids filling those fields with a guess. The stronger historical record is administrative: Lichtenburg appears in the North West Golf Union’s rated-course material with several tee combinations, showing that the present routing has an established competitive identity. Its continuing presence in current scorecard services also confirms that the club remains a distinct 18-hole facility rather than a duplicate of a nearby town course.

Did You Know? The Lichtenburg card offers a wide spread of rated tee positions, from shorter forward options to a longer men’s layout. That makes the same par-72 property read differently depending on the tees chosen, an important detail for golfers comparing the course by headline yardage alone.