21 SIMOLA 76.8 POINTS Knysna, Southern Cape 6401 metres Jack Nicklaus Signature Down 5 places from No 16 22 GEORGE 76.5 POINTS George, Southern Cape 6166 metres Charles Molteno Murray Down 4 places from No 18 23 CCJ WOODMEAD 76.2 POINTS Sandton, Central Gauteng 6803 metres COURSES 21-30 Fred Hawtree / Golf Data Down 1 place from No 22 24 PRETORIA COUNTRY CLUB 76.0 POINTS Pretoria, Gauteng North 6398 metres Laurie Waters / Bob Grimsdell Up 4 places from No 28 25 FANCOURT OUTENIQUA 75.7 POINTS George, Southern Cape 6301 metres Gary Player Design Down 2 places from No 23 26 ERINVALE 75.4 POINTS Somerset West, Western Cape 6440 metres Gary Player Design Down 1 place from No 25 27 CCJ ROCKLANDS 75.2 POINTS Sandton, Central Gauteng 6831 metres Martin Hawtree / Golf Data Up 3 places from No 30 28 ROYAL JOHANNESBURG WEST 75.0 POINTS Johannesburg, Central Gauteng 6586 metres Laurie Waters / Col SV Hotchkin / Bob Grimsdell Up 5 places from No 33 29 DE ZALZE 74.8 POINTS Stellenbosch, Western Cape 6324 metres Peter Matkovich Up 5 places from No 34 30 HOUGHTON 74.5 POINTS Johannesburg, Central Gauteng
31 PECANWOOD 74.2 POINTS Hartbeespoort Dam, North West Province 7040 metres COURSES 31-40 32 KYALAMI 74.0 POINTS Sandton, Central Gauteng 6631 metres Arthur Tomsett & Koos de Beer Down 6 places from No 26 33 PRINCE’S GRANT 73.8 POINTS KZN North Coast 6158 metres Peter Matkovich Up 10 places from No 43 34 BRYANSTON 73.4 POINTS Sandton, Central Gauteng 6560 metres Charles Alison Down 5 places from No 29 35 VICTORIA 73.2 POINTS Maritzburg, KZN Midlands 6156 metres Bob Grimsdell / Golf Data Up 3 places from No 38 36 PARKVIEW 73.1 POINTS Johannesburg, Central Gauteng 6603 metres Laurie Waters Up 1 place from No 37 37 RANDPARK FIRETHORN 73.0 POINTS Johannesburg, Central Gauteng 6766 metres Sid Brews & Koos de Beer / Golf Data Down 6 places from No 31 38 EYE OF AFRICA 72.7 POINTS Johannesburg, Gauteng South 7210 metres Greg Norman Up 2 places from No 40 39 ROYAL CAPE 72.6 POINTS Cape Town, Western Cape 6065 metres Jack Nicklaus Signature Up 4 places from No 35
put in temporary greens. Few golfers had any interest in playing the course in that situation and took their custom elsewhere. The greens at Randpark Bushwillow suffered a similar fate in March this year, and the only solution for Randpark was to close the course for more than a month while they waited for the new grass to grow. LEAPING UP THE RANKINGS Clubs which do experience condition- ing issues over a lengthy period of time will suffer most in the Conditioning cri- teria, because there is now a bigger gap between the haves and have-nots. A course which previously scored 6 out of 10 now might score 11 out of 20, where- as its rivals might have progressed from 7 out of 10 to 15 out of 20, a gap of four points compared to one point before. That three-point margin overall can translate to as much as 20 places on the rankings, the points difference being that close between courses. This has already been confirmed in the surge up the rankings of three prominent Gauteng courses since 2018 which have benefited from each hav- ing outstanding maintenance teams. Pretoria Country Club, Houghton and the Rocklands course at Country Club Johannesburg have gone from outside the Top 50 into the Top 30. Steyn City has moved up from No 25 to within reach of the Top 10, and the two courses at Mount Edgecombe
Charles Molteno Murray Up 2 places from No 41 40 HERMANUS 72.4 POINTS Hermanus, Western Cape 6440 metres Peter Matkovich Down 1 place from No 39
6656 metres Jack Nicklaus Up 2 places from No 32
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