Beautiful South Africa has long provided some of the European Tour’s most breathtaking golf courses and this week is no exception as Gary Player Country Club takes center stage for the seventh Rolex Series event of the season at the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
Career Grand Slam winner Player designed the course himself and it opened in 1979, hosting the first edition of this event in 1981 and every one since.
Designed in a volcanic crater and surrounded by Pilanesberg National Park, sightings of the big five – lions, Cape buffaloes, elephants, leopards and rhinos – are common along with a host of other wildlife.
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