The Links at Fancourt ☆ Follow

The Links at Fancourt is an 18-hole, par-73 golf course designed by Gary Player. Originally an airfield, The Links was transformed over 20 months into a links-style course inspired by the classic courses of Scotland and Ireland. Located across 620 hectares of lush countryside in George on South Africa's renowned Garden Route, ten minutes from George Airport, the course features dramatic, unconventional holes, undulating fairways, pot bunkers, and links-style greens in various shapes and elevations. Notable holes include the long downhill par-3 second with an astonishingly large sloping green, the highly unusual par-4 tenth called Kilimanjaro with an elevated green perched at the top of the dunes, and the par-5 16th over and through the dunes to a hard-to-find rumpled green.

The Links is one of the most difficult tests of golf in South Africa and was never meant to be a low-scoring, target golf course. Golf Digest ranks it among the Top 100 Courses in the World outside the United States, and The Links achieved its highest ever ranking of No 28 in their 2022-23 list of the World's 100 Greatest Courses. The Links was the host venue for the 2003 Presidents Cup, which ended in an historic tie after a dramatic play-off between Tiger Woods and Ernie Els. The European Tour visited for the 2005 SA Open and 2012 Volvo Golf Champions, and The Links hosted the first Women's World Cup in 2005.