The Glendower Golf Club is an 18-hole
golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
complex located in
Edenvale, Gauteng
Edenvale is a small city on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa. The greater Edenvale area has an estimated population of 70,000, including Greenstone, Harmelia, Highway Gardens, Buurendal and Croydon. Edenvale is part of the Ekurhuleni Metropol ...
,
South Africa
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. The course has been the home of the South African Open for eight competitions. Englishman Chris Paisley won his first European Tour title winning the 2018 SA Open. Englishman
Graeme Storm
Graeme Raymond Storm (born 13 March 1978) is an English professional golfer.
Career
Storm was born in Hartlepool. He learnt his trade at Hartlepool Golf Club, where he still holds the course record of 62. He won The Amateur Championship in 19 ...
won the 2017 SA Open beating
Rory McIlroy in a play-off while South African golfer
Brandon Stone won the 2016 SA Open.
History
In 1935, ten businessmen formed a company with an idea to create a country club and purchased the farm Glendower which in those days was on the edge to the town of Edenvale.
The land bought was 266.7 acres in size and consisted mostly of a tree plantation.
[ A parkland course was planned and an English golfing architect, Charles Hugh Alison, was employed to design the course and it was constructed by A.F.Tomsett.][ The course would open on 7 March 1937.][ In 1939, The Transvaal Open Championship was held at the club and won by ]Bobby Locke
Arthur D'Arcy "Bobby" Locke (20 November 1917 – 9 March 1987) was a South African professional golfer. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time. He won The Open Championship four times and 15 PGA Tour events in total ...
with a record score of 265.[ A record prize of £100 for the time, was offered by the club in 1946.][ In 1973, the club grounds would be declared a nature reserve.][ At the Volvo Toro Classic held at the course in 1975, ]Allan Henning
Allan Henning (born 1 June 1944) is a former professional golfer from South Africa.
Henning was born into a golfing family. His brothers Harold, Brian, and Graham all became professional golfers.
Henning turned professional in 1962 and won 18 ...
scored eleven birdies in his first round.[ The club has hosted the South African Open in 1989, 1993, 1997, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.][ In 1997, ]Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh ( hif, विजय सिंह ; born 22 February 1963), nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer. He has won 34 events on the PGA Tour, including three major championships: one Masters title (2000) and two ...
became the first non-white player to win a South African Open at the course.
Course
In 1985, the course was redesigned with all 18 greens reshaped and rebuilt to USGA
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standard, new tee positions added and extended and new water features added at eleven holes. The course has fairways with 64 bunkers, 27 on the front nine and 37 on the back nine and has water hazards on 11 of its 18 holes.[
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Holes and yardages
Championship Tee
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Ekurhuleni
Golf clubs and courses in South Africa
Sports venues in Gauteng
1937 establishments in South Africa
Sports venues completed in 1937