Five unique luxury boutique properties, located in the West Coast, Cape Town, Chapman’s Peak, Hermanus, and Plettenberg Bay. Choosing any of the properties will allow you to enjoy golf, as well as the amazing wines and gastronomical delights South Africa offers.

You’re invited to join Simon Lacey on an exploration of Namibia over a series of three articles, follow him on a road trip around this astounding country.

Read Part 2 of Simon Lacey’s adventures through Namibia, from Swakopmund to Damaraland.

Read part 3, the final part of Simon’s adventures through Namibia, from Serra Cafema Camp in the Hartmann Valley, opposite the Angolan board, to meeting the Himba people, then onto Okonjima, home of the Africat Foundation and then back to Windhoek.

Did you ever think you would get to play the No.1 course in Ireland, Royal County Down in tournament format with guaranteed tee times?
Well now is your chance by entering the Newry, Mourne & Down Trophy and competing against other international visitors.

A round at Augusta National is one of golf’s true bucket list experiences. Former Golf World editor Nick Wright was lucky enough to tee it up the day after Tiger Woods’ epic victory in 2019.

Front 9 Travel are continuing their support of the Slip! Slap! Swing! campaign by promoting their new ‘Get Skin Savvy’.

How hypnotherapy can help you on and off the course!

The Slip! Slap! Swing! sun protection campaign for golf launched last year, and is back on this summer with a new challenge. The Melanoma Fund – the charity behind the campaign – aims to get 200 golf clubs in the UK and Ireland ‘Sun Protection Accredited’ in 2020.

What a dramatic first impression we get of the Island of Canouan as we descend in the small private jet that whisked us from Barbados Grantley Adams Airport only 25 minutes earlier.

Matt Watson, PGA Professional at Cowdray Golf has been based at Cowdray Golf since turning professional in 2015, within his time as a PGA qualified golf instructor, he has been fortunate enough to work and continues to work with a range of golfers from complete beginners to elite players.

Rob Smith is a Contributing Editor for leading publication Golf Monthly who specialises in travel and course reviews. He has enjoyed visiting the stunning island of Mauritius both on and off-duty…

La Finca Resort in Spain is ready to reopen its doors to visitors at the end of this month following a €6 million renovation project which has seen the golf courses and restaurants undergo major redevelopments.

I first visited South Africa some twenty five years ago and instantly fell in love with the country and its people, and knew I had to go back. And have done so – many times, exploring more widely every time.

Paul Stuart, Head Golf Professional at the London Golf Club Academy, has been involved with the club for over 25 years, working his way up from Assistant Professional to Director of Golf and over the last 18 months creating and heading up the LGC Academy.

The Cape Provinces of South Africa afford the opportunity to have a multi-centre, multi-experience itinerary without it feeling like it’s a ‘where are we tonight’ road trip. This can be done and the region lends itself to this – it’s just not for everybody. So here we’ve slowed the pace down.

An amazing opportunity to stock up on the The No 1 Ball In Golf for an insanely low price! 40 Mint Refinished Pro V1 / V1x for just £59 shipped straight to your door. Includes FREE UK shipping!

In some of my previous blogs I focused on the golf side of things – we are a golf specialist after all – but you simply cannot travel to the far tip of Africa and not experience more of what this amazing continent has to offer. So, following on from my theme of ‘journeying’ not ‘travelling’, this blog will take you north from South Africa into Zimbabwe to Victoria Falls – one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World, and ends on safari in the incomparable Botswana.

KwaZulu Natal has to be one of, if not the most beautiful provinces in South Africa with so, so much to offer its visitors, it’s ideal for a genteel road trip. In fact it has so much to offer that rather than giving a ‘set menu’ of superb locations for an itinerary, this will be an ‘a la carte’ selection of places you could visit.

Rob Smith is a Contributing Editor for Golf Monthly who specialises in courses and golf travel. Here he describes one of his all-time favourite destinations…