I recently travelled to the south of Johannesburg to play at the Eye of Africa Golf Estate and it was certainly quite interesting. The terrain south of Johannesburg is far more hilly than in the northern suburbs, and there are some beautiful and massive hills, covered in rock that surround the area. I think that it is a development that is going to take a long time to complete and be successful, because there is not very much happening around it and while it is 17 km south of the Johannesburg CBD, it is still miles away from anything.

The golf course itself is in a very good condition and reminds me of Serengeti, although it is not really similar. It’s probably because it has some particularly easy short holes and some fairly tricky ones as well and there are enough warnings about snakes to stop you wanting to go into the rough and look for your ball, should you have the misfortune to hit it there. The course is in a good condition and the greens roll true, which means that the ball stays on the path that you hit it on and do not bump around. What I did not like was the facilities before and after the game, which were pretty ordinary and the halfway house, for lunch, could be substantially improved as could be the options for what to have for lunch. I am also somebody who prefers, when visiting a golf course, to pay an all-in fee, and not to be asked to pay an extra R20 or R30 to hit some balls as a warm-up before the game, and that does seem a little tacky to me, but it is still a practice at many clubs.