DESTINATIONS / KWAZULU-NATAL MIDLANDS
★ ★ ★ ★ GREYTOWN CC Scenic, challenging, hilly layout, good condition, great 19th hole in historic clubhouse. A choice of guest houses in town. www.greytowngolf.club
HISTORIC GREYTOWN COUNTRY CLUB
The wooden clubhouse at St Cathryn’s is a comfortable countryside venue, with an outside deck on the dam. An attrac- tive setting in late afternoon as the sun sets. Inside there’s a cosy 19th, with good food on the menu. Cathy sources local products, some of it from the German community. The Hermannsburg private school is nearby – the country’s oldest co- ed school. Greytown was founded in the 1850s. On the deck I had beers with two members of the local German brass band. Piet tells me that four local clubs – St Cathryn’s, Greytown, Noodsberg and Mooi River – have embraced a Quad- rangular series where their members meet up four times a year, hosting an event at each of their courses. “It’s been great for the golfing community in the greater area.”
Greytown Country Club is one of the oldest (1895) golf clubs in KZN, and there’s a stately and tranquil aura around every part of it. It’s in a quiet upper part of town on a tree-lined av- enue to Wembley College campus, an independent school founded in 1998 by one of the town’s biggest benefac- tors, the late Brian Corbishley. I teed off the following morning with club captain Paddy O’Sullivan, who drew my attention to a large marker stone on the first tee. “There’s one on every hole, and we acquired them recently,” he said. An attractive feature of a course that at first glance looked lovingly cared for. The 1950s club- house has a spacious verandah, and
oozed character inside. Downstairs I was shown two squash courts. Which explains why it’s a country club. This is a fabulous 9-holer (R250 for 18, R180 for 9), with beautifully de- signed holes and significantly attrac- tive features, including a rocky flower bed on the sixth fairway which looks perfectly natural. It has an English countryside feel to it, particularly the par-3 third, with its oak tree as a back- drop and an old residence behind the green, part of Wembley. The second
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