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Wild Coast Sun Resort
Type: Golf Location: 4295, Port Edward, , South Africa Address: Main Bizana Road |
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Wild Coast Sun Resort
Type: Golf Location: 4295 Port Edward Address: Main Bizana Road |
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Leisure Group of Hotels, Resorts and Casinos – is laid out within a 1,800acre estate on the edge of the
Eastern Cape, overlooking the Indian Ocean, near Port Edward.
Constructed by Robert Trent Jones II in 1983, it remains the only course designed in South Africa by the
American golf architect and it’s routed over terrain in keeping with the coastline around this part of the Cape;
wild, rugged and spectacular.
Set in natural bush between the Umtamvuna and Mzamba rivers, Wild Coast Sun’s fairways rise and fall then
twist and turn throughout its 6,400yard length, presenting especially challenging holes at the six par three
holes on the scorecard.
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The par five 12th "Green Mamba" is rated one of the best 18 holes in South Africa, with the tee shot played
from an elevated tee toward a cascading waterfall from where the fairway then cuts through a valley towards
the kidneyshaped green and, when you’ve putted out, there’s a small funicular railway to transport you up
the steep slope behind the green to the next tee! Many consider the 12th hole alone is worth the twohour
drive south from Durban to play Wild Coast. And if that's not enough, the book 500 world’s greatest golf holes
by author George Peper and the editors of GOLF magazine features the 146yard par three 13h at Wild
Coast:
“The 1997 Wild Coast Challenge, a South African PGA event, saw how fickle winds can render this hole’s
seemingly innocuous yardage meaningless. Players hit anything from punch five irons to three quarter
wedges on this hole to adapt to the changing conditions, knowing that shots missing this green can land in all
sorts of trouble. The ‘jungle’ is the most obvious hazard, but a rear bunker.
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