Our take

No club in South Africa has staged the SA Open more often than Durban Country Club, and one round over its bush-lined fairways above the Blue Lagoon tells you why.

• Serious golfersSeventeen SA Opens set the benchmark, and the third, a long, narrow par five squeezed by dense bush with a bunker lurking left, is rated among the best of its kind anywhere; it plays like it too.
• Higher handicapsGentle underfoot, with under 30 metres of climb across the whole round, but the bush lining the fairways gives nothing back; take whatever club finds grass and treat the day as the occasion it is.
• Buddy tripsThis is the round your group will still be talking about at dinner, the SA Open course above the Blue Lagoon estuary with the Indian Ocean beyond, and the clubhouse restaurant handles the aftermath properly.

Tell us who’s coming and how you like to play, and we’ll shape the right trip around you.

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