Most golf courses in South Africa have their club championships over the first weekend in March. They choose this time because the grass that is the very longest, and if you stray from the fairway, you are really going to have a tough time – so it is a much more challenging time of the year to play golf. Invariably, it is played over two days – this year being 5 and 6 March and so it is the wrong time of the year to try and arrange a social game with a friend if you are not a member of a club!