The Goose Valley Golf Club is situated in pristine surroundings on the Goose Valley Golf Course, only 2km from Plettenberg Bay Goose Valley Golf Estate, Plettenberg Bay, and bordering on the Keurbooms Estuary. Golfers playing this magnificent Gary Player Signature golf course in the heart of the Garden Route will experience breathtaking views of the estuary, the sea, and the Tsitsikamma Mountains. The golfing experience is enhanced by the beauty of the natural fynbos and the abundance of animal and birdlife around the course. The course boasts a superb Driving Range with practice, chipping, and putting facilities, and is surrounded by indigenous Fynbos which is home to small bucks, tortoises, and spectacular birdlife. There must be very few courses, if any, elsewhere in the world where one can play golf and simultaneously watch whales breaching in the sea.
Goose Valley accommodation is extremely popular with golfers and non-golfers alike and the estate has become a sought-after value for money destination for self-catering holiday rentals in Plettenberg Bay. Goose Valley Golf Club welcomes visitors and has become extremely popular with tourists who enjoy the relaxed family atmosphere of the Club. Many visitors choose to live on the course by renting self-catering accommodation with a choice of 2, 3, and 4 bedroom condominiums.
The Club has gentlemen and ladies change rooms, a well-stocked and professionally managed pro shop, golf cart hire, equipment rentals, a full driving range with all golf practice facilities, the restaurant, and halfway house facilities. There is a squash court and two tennis courts. Professional golf instruction is available.
Being a residential Golfing Estate, Goose Valley is also the ideal vacation base for visitors to enjoy many of the other spectacular golf courses on the Garden Route, which is fast assuming the mantle of the “Algarve of the Southern Hemisphere”.
Accolades
Goose Valley Golf Course has received many accolades over the years:
Golf Digest Top 100
Goose Valley Golf Club was ranked number 49 in Golf Digest’s list of 2008 top 100 South African Golf Courses, and was also ranked the 18th Best Conditioned Golf Course!
Complete Golfer Top 50
Complete Golfer has again produced its list of South Africa’s very best golf courses. Goose Valley received a Gold Status Award in Compleat Golfer’s May 2008 list of “Top 50” South African Golf Courses, moving one place up to number 40.
Opinions
Golf Digest
In the October 2006 edition of Golf Digest, Terry McLean, Golf Digest’s Editor, in an article about the new Pinnacle Point Golf Club in the Southern Cape, wrote that “the golf course that impressed us most was Goose Valley!”
Compleat Golfer Top 50
Compleat Golfer has again produced its list of South Africa’s very best golf courses. Goose Valley received a Gold Status Award in Compleat Golfer’s May 2008 list of “Top 50” South African Golf Courses, moving one place up to number 40.
Originally a nine-holer:
The course was originally a nine-holer from 1996 to 2002, whereafter it was extended to eighteen holes with the incorporation of the Turtle Creek land. The course also received rave reviews whilst 9 holes. Some of these were:
Golf Digest
“November 1999″….
Goose Valley voted “The best nine-hole golf course in South Africa”.
David Denison “Golfing Scribe – East London Daily Dispatch”….
Goose Valley Golf Club Signature Hole
“I spent a glorious few days at Goose Valley, a visit which re-emphasized my impression this is faraway the best nine-hole course in South Africa – so long as it is played off the forward tees! For me, Goose Valley’s signature hole remains the 425m fifths, the second round as the 14th. Standing on the tee you look down a broad sweep of green-carpeted Kikuyu with tall trees lining the fairway – blue gums to the left; firs to the right. Reminiscent of Augusta, they stand like sentinels guarding a piece of the Garden of Eden”.
The environmentalists….
Because of the sensitivity regarding the environment, Goose valley got bad press at launch. Today the environmentalists have publicly stated that “Goose Valley sets the standard for all future coastal developments”. Their approval has been given for the construction of the second nine holes.
The “Smart Investor” backs Goose Valley….
2001 issue of the Smart Investor Magazine named Plettenberg Bay as the premier holiday resort town in South Africa. Discussing investment in coastal resorts and the huge increases in property prices, they went on to say “So is the Garden Route a game for the rich? Fortunately not. There are places in Plettenberg Bay, which offer, excellent but unrealised value. Look for them. Goose Valley is one, built around a Gary Player golf course. It got bad press at launch and, maybe as a result, two bed-roomed apartments, which were priced at less than R400 000 in 1995, fetch that now”.
Sorry folks, if you missed the boat! These prices are of course is a pipe dream now, but it will never be too late to invest in this superb realistically priced estate, no matter what the price!!
Gary Player “Compleat Golfer – February 2001″….
Goose Valley Golf Club“We’ve done at least 200 courses around the world already”. “Another course of ours is Goose Valley, which was voted the best nine-holer in South Africa. It's a magnificent course and test of golf and, of all the work I’ve ever done, Goose Valley was in the best condition in the shortest time. Its built on pure sand, which is perfect and it looks as if we’ll be building the other nine holes there sometime this year”.
Gary Player “At Goose Valley in December / January 2002″….
“These greens are equal to the best anywhere in the World!”
Contacts:
Tel: +27 (0)44 533 5082