Mooipoort Golf Club

Overview: Mooipoort Golf Club offers an 18-hole course in the Roodeplaat area north-east of Pretoria, where the city gives way to open Highveld country and bushveld edges. The course is built for practical, everyday golf rather than spectacle: a rural setting, natural vegetation and a full routing create a useful escape from the capital while still keeping the round close to Pretoria’s main golf market.

History: The club’s current information dates the course tradition to about 1987 and credits Ds. Japie Jacobs with the design. Its later history is tied to a change of ownership in 2008 and to the growth of Roodeplaat as a leisure and residential area. Mooipoort has retained the feel of a club course, with golf days and local events providing the social structure around the layout.

Did You Know? Mooipoort’s position near Roodeplaat places it in a landscape where the transition from Pretoria’s urban edge to open bushveld happens quickly. That change of scenery is one of the course’s strongest features: the round feels rural even though the city and its surrounding estates are close by.