Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 7 July 2015 | Page 11

PUTTING
Putting Women First!

Kingswood Golf Estate
Sally Little

Golf is a great sport. Requiring skill and finesse, it is
incredibly social, played in some of the most beautiful
settings in the world and is a great corporate teambuilding exercise; the fashion is continuously
improving and it is likely the only competitive sport
that culminates in cocktails and conversation at the
end of every game. So why aren’t more women
playing?
A lack of female role models is not the reason instead
the masculine, unappealing and uncomfortable golf
course is and there is a strong argument that a female
designer can provide valuable input in encouraging
more women players.

Take Kingswood Golf Estate for example, where
developers sought the invaluable expertise of Sally
Little, arguably one of the greatest South African
female golfers. Boasting a successful 30-year career
on the LGPA tour, with 15 titles and two Majors under
her belt, the Capetonian certainly knows a thing or
two about golf courses and her signature course on
the Garden Route is designed with the specific aim of
being female and family friendly.
“I was brought on after the developers had already
hired their architect,” explains Sally. “My role, as I
describe it, was to be the female footprint on a male
master plan”.