Zimbali Country Club
Zimbali Country Club
R627, Zimbali Coastal Estate
Dolphin Coast, KwaZulu-Natal 4399
South Africa
Overview
American course designer Tom Weiskopf was presented with a considerable challenge when he first saw the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast terrain on which he was asked to build Zimbali in the mid-1990s: “I had never before worked with land where so much elevation had to be taken into account." His solution was to integrate a cart-only layout, at the time a first in South Africa. Zimbali (1998) rolls and tumbles among hills on the Indian Ocean shoreline with only two flat holes in the layout. Three par 3s are played from elevated tees. The Zimbali Coastal Resort development has a large residential component plus two hotels. The course is again open to visiting golfers. It has a neighboring course outside the estate, Zimbali Lakes, designed by Ernie Els, which opened in 2025.
