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Everything about the top golf courses in Cape Town
The top golf courses in and around Cape Town reflect a ranking shaped by verified reviews from golfers and by the strength of the surrounding golf landscape. Steenberg Golf Club in the Constantia valley is the Cape Town circuit's most complete golf experience. Peter Matkovich's design on the Steenberg wine estate, in the valley between the Steenbergberg mountain and the False Bay hillside, surrounded by Cape Dutch farm buildings dating from the 17th century, uses the undulating wine estate terrain to produce a course of genuine variety whose setting in the Constantia microclimate produces the Cape's most consistently lush playing conditions. The estate hotel and winery add a hospitality dimension that makes Steenberg a full day out rather than merely a round of golf. Royal Cape Golf Club in Wynberg carries the weight of South Africa's oldest golf club and the Cape's most significant golf institution. Founded in 1885, its parkland course through the southern suburbs uses mature trees and natural slope to produce a layout that has changed character over 140 years of adaptation to a growing city around it. The club's history, South African Opens played on this ground, a membership that includes some of the Cape's most prominent individuals across every decade since the Victorian era, gives it an authority that newer courses cannot claim. Milnerton Golf Club on the West Coast lagoon north of Cape Town is the city's most links-adjacent course. The layout on the Diep River estuary adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, exposed to the Cape Doctor, the southeasterly wind that blows consistently from November through February, plays in conditions that are as close to links golf as South Africa produces outside of Hermanus. The course is not the most technically sophisticated in the circuit, but its natural estuary setting and wind exposure make it a distinctive option. Atlantic Beach Golf Club at Melkbosstrand, 40 kilometres north of Cape Town on the West Coast, occupies Atlantic coastal terrain with direct ocean exposure and views toward Robben Island across the bay. Its course on the coastal fynbos terrain is maintained to a resort standard and plays with the full Atlantic exposure that the sheltered Cape Town urban courses do not experience.
