Glendower
Glendower
20 Marais Road, Dowerglen Ext 2
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2008
South Africa
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Overview
Located 20 minutes from Johannesburg International Airport is the C.H. Alison-designed Glendower Golf Club, host to eight South African Opens. Opened in 1937, the club underwent major renovations in 1985 and 2007 adding yardage, bunkering and adapting each putting surface to USGA specifications. The parkland-style course is famous for sprawling red bunkers, wide hazards and immaculate putting surfaces. Large meandering water hazards help create the signature holes at Glendower and are on full display on the par-5 second with a tee shot over a shimmering hazard to a tight tree-lined fairway, as well as on the par-4 10th featuring a lengthy approach over a lake to a tightly protected green. The course is home to Kikuyu grass fairways protected by 64 penal bunkers and is challenging and well worth its ranking as a premier destination in South Africa.
