Located in St Francis Bay,
The Jack Nicklaus Signature
layout at St Francis Links
is South Africa’s number
6 ranked course and will
provide every golfer with
a serious, rewarding and
entertaining day of golf.
The layout has been sculpted unobtrusively into
the original site, which has resulted in a perfect
links golf landscape.
The course has enhanced and protected an
ecologically sensitive environment and prompted
Jack Nicklaus to comment, about the finished
product and his own creation, that this may well be
“the best course I have ever seen”.
As a leisure destination the phrase ‘a welcoming
home-away-from-home where both great friends
and great memories are made’ is the sort of
copy which might just look like more insincere
brochure blurb.
However the estate’s management team, led
by USA native and 3 times PGA of South Africa
Professional of the Year Jeff Clause, prides itself
on its hospitality ethic and delivers on what it
promises.
Winning the award as the ‘Best Reception Venue’
in South Africa, in each year it was awarded from
2010 to 2013, bears eloquent testimony to this.
The development’s property is in a Natal plantation
farmhouse style, with state-of-the-art security
protocols, including access control and a security
fence around the entire property.
The facilities include excellent conference, spa
facilities, running, hiking and cycling trails, added
to which a new hotel complex is breaking ground.
This new addition will complement the St Francis
Golf Lodge and top class villa rentals options on
site and complete the elements necessary for St
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