Wingate Park Country Club

About the club

The Wingate Park course opened in 1951 and was laid out by a couple of the top national professional players of their time, AF Tomsett and AR Guthrie. The course is named after Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, a British Army officer who helped to train Jewish paramilitaries in Palestine during the 1930s, and the 18-hole layout is a well-known venue for provincial and national amateur events and the club also hosted the South African Masters competition for professionals in 1994. The 392-yard, newly renovated 9th is the signature hole on the course. Water hazards are used sparingly around the layout but not on this hole where a water hazard threatens the tee shot on the right hand side of the fairway then the approach as to pass a nicely positioned pont in short of the green which comes very much into play.