South Africa

15 Mar

Play a course from which elephant, hippos and crocodiles are often seen, and spend nights inside Kruger Park.

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A golf course next to the world’s most-famous safari park is both brilliant and yet slightly worrying, especially when a round at Leopard Creek Country Club can include sightings of elephant, crocodile, buffalo and hippo. But you’re perfectly safe on this 360-hectare site, on the border of South Africa’s wildlife-rich Kruger Park and the Crocodile River in Mpumalanga.

Incredibly private – its exclusivity has been likened to Augusta – it has hosted the Alfred Dunhill Challenge on the DP World Tour for the best part of twenty years, and is so meticulous with its course care that it has the South African rights to specific grass brought in from the USA. While you can get lucky and see some of safari’s ‘big five’ from the confines of this luxury enclave – not to mention birdies, albatross and eagles, if you’re lucky – it’s better to book one of their private guides, who can increase your chances of crossing leopards, rhinos, elephants, lions and buffalo off your list.