Fancourt Resort and Hotel (Mantagu Course) - South Africa

The Fancourt Resort and Hotel near George, South Africa, is in the heart of the "Garden Route," the strip of coastline east of Cape Town that stretches from Heidelberg in the west to the Tsitsikamma Forest and the Storms River in the east. All three of Fancourt's courses, the Montagu, the Outeniqua, and the Links, were designed by Gary Player, South Africa's paragon of golf. Framed by the Outeniqua Mountains, the Montagu Course offers lush green fairways, sapphire lagoons, and bands of the brilliant heath land vegetation, known as fynbos or "fine bush" in Afrikaans, that exemplifies the Edenic landscape for which the Garden Route is famed.

Fancourt Resort and Hotel (Links Course) - South Africa

The Fancourt Resort and Hotel hosted the 2003 President's Cup, played on the resort's Links Course, the most recent of the resort's Gary Player-designed courses. The potboiler of a President's Cup ended in a controversial tie agreed to by team captains Jack Nicklaus and Player with darkness approaching, after Tiger Woods and Ernie Els had played three holes of a pressure-packed sudden-death playoff The Links Course is an exposed, rumpled layout with authentic links features, spread out against the unkempt savannah grasses with the Outeniqua Mountains hovering above.