Solo Golf Holidays in South Africa

The thing that stops most golfers booking a solo trip is the picture of standing on the first tee with nobody to share it with. In South Africa that picture rarely survives contact with the place. Clubs like Royal Cape Golf Club — the country’s oldest — and the parkland of King David Mowbray in Cape Town are used to welcoming visiting singles and pairing them into group tee times, so you walk on alone and walk off with three new playing partners.

We can arrange your week either way. Prefer total independence? We’ll book your rounds at Milnerton Golf Club, with the ocean on one side and the lagoon on the other, and leave your evenings open. Want the company built in from the start? Our hosted and escorted group tours are made for solo golfers: you join a small group, your host books the tee sheets and runs the transfers, and you spend the trip among people in exactly the same boat as you. It is the simplest, warmest way to take a first solo golf holiday.

Cape Town and the surrounding coast give a solo golfer a rare combination — championship courses within easy reach of one another, and hotels with the kind of sociable bar-and-restaurant feel that makes eating alone a pleasure rather than a chore.

We regularly base solo travellers at The Bay Hotel in Camps Bay, steps from the beach and the strip of restaurants where a table for one never feels conspicuous. Up the coast, The Farmhouse Hotel in Langebaan looks out over the lagoon and suits a quieter, slower week. Inland in the winelands, Spier Hotel near Stellenbosch puts you among vineyards with plenty to fill the non-golf hours.

For the golf itself, the Cape’s roster is hard to beat. Metropolitan Golf Club sits right in the city with Table Mountain as its backdrop; Steenberg in Tokai pairs a manicured layout with an estate and tasting room you’ll want to linger at; and Royal Cape, Milnerton and King David Mowbray round out a week of genuine variety. We’ll sequence them to your handicap, your pace and how much you want to play.

Golf Planet Holidays has been arranging tailor-made golf trips since 1981, and a solo holiday gets exactly the same hands-on planning as a group of eight. You tell us your dates, your courses and the pace you’d like; we come back with a full itinerary — hotel, green fees, tee times and transfers — costed in pounds with everything itemised, starting from £290 per person. Nothing is left for you to piece together once you land.

Your money is looked after the whole way. We’re ATOL Protected, and the money you pay is held in trust with PTS until you have travelled — so your trip is secure from the moment you book to the moment you fly home.

Flying in from the United States? South Africa is a long-haul hop worth making, and the strong dollar stretches a long way against Cape Town green fees and winelands hotels. We arrange the ground holiday and tee times; flights are an easy add-on, so just tell us your departure airport and we’ll fold them into the plan.