An insight of the Leopard Creek Golf Course
Leopard Creek Golf Course is one of the most popular golf courses in South Africa.
It is a host to the European Tour and Professional Golf Association tournaments. This week, it is the venue of the Alfred Dunhill Championship.
The tournament is considered to be a high priority for the top golfers in the world, as it offers highly lucrative prize money.
The Leopard Creek Golf Course is located in the premises of an untouched wildlife environment, which adds a certain amount of prestige to the tournament.
It is an excellent place for wildlife fanatics, as they can watch over 200 species of birds hovering over the course. It offers a great experience for the participants as the Leopard Creek is one of its kind.
The trees on the course and those surrounding the course are many decades old, this gives the course a very distinguished personality.
It is common to witness wild animals wandering around the course.
However, the natural habitats of the animals have not been disturbed and the landscapes of the course were made keeping in mind the aspect that it does not disturb the natural habitat of the animals.
The golfers who participate in the tournament say that playing on the Leopard Creek Golf Course is an experience like none other.
However, the South African golfers have had more success on the course as compared to their international counterparts.
The Likes of Charl Schwartzel and Ernie Els have a terrific track record on the course. The South African, Els has won the championship multiple times and Schwartzel has won it once by playing one of his best rounds of golf on the course.
The course was constructed in 1996. It is commonly not open to the general public but when tournaments take place, the public has access to the course, so that they can watch the top golfers compete each other on the fairways.
Gary Player, the architect of the Leopard Creek Golf Course, says that there is a touch of nature to the course, while playing a shot you might hear a hippopotamus snort or see wild animals growling near the fence.
There are symbols all across the course and each tee has a leopard symbol that signifies the stages of a leopard’s life.
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