Durban Country Club on Golf Channel now

[Ron Csigo]

The Volvo Championship is being played at Durban Country Club and can be viewed on the Golf Channel for those interested.

Durban Country Club is an interesting mix of parkland and links golf.  The course is routed through severely undulating dunes and then through some flatlands.  With the course being a couple hundred yards from the Indian Ocean coastline, wind is almost always a factor.  This adds to the challenge of the course having to hit from elevated tee boxes down to narrow, undulated fairways and back up into elevated, well-contoured greens.

For those that have played it, please feel free to add comments especially any features that we may not pick up on TV.  

Also, is there another course that it compares favorably to?

[Bob_Huntley]

Ron,

I haven't played the DCC since 1963 so I have no idea what changes have been made in the last fifty years. I do know it was always a delight to have a game there and come to the last couple of holes with a decent score only to lose it OB on the right side of the fairway. If you have a chance, play it and lookout for the monkeys, they can be a pest.

 A neighbor is Royal Durban G.C., a very tough test of golf situated in the middle of a horse racing track. Not long but in humid weather wiith  lush grass and deep rough it could be a bear. Iam not sure what has happened in the interim but very few players bettered 280 when I was around.

Bob

[Nigel Islam]

I love watching the course on TV. If I ever get to South Africa that would be at the top of my list to play.

[Bob_Huntley]

Ron,

I think your questions have been answered in another post.

Bob

[Ron Csigo]

Thanks Bob.  Looks like there are two Durban threads going on at the same time.

Thanks for your input on the golf course and for the Royal Durban recommendation.  I hope to make it down to Durban in the next two years.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Here's summore:

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,25230.0.html

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,26765.0.html