Plan less, play more — world‑class golf meets unforgettable wildlife.
Safari Golfing NZ runs small-group trips through South Africa's best golf courses and game reserves — one fairway, one sighting at a time. Our next expedition, 4–13 September 2026, is built around the Springboks vs All Blacks 3rd Test.
South Africa has some of the finest golf courses on earth — and they happen to sit inside some of its wildest country.
We've run three of these trips now, and the pattern holds every time: a game drive at first light, eighteen holes in the afternoon, dinner under a thatched roof somewhere in between. It's not a golf trip with a safari bolted on, or the other way around. It's one trip, built properly, by people who've actually done it three times over and keep going back.
We're not a New Zealand travel agency that visited South Africa a few times and liked it. My wife and I are South African-born and only moved to New Zealand six years ago — the courses, the reserves, the roads between them, this is home ground to us. We're just showing you around.
Small groups, courses and reserves we know personally, and an itinerary that never makes you choose between a tee time and a sighting.
Championship courses laid into bushveld, riverbank and highland terrain — every one walked and played by us first.
Open-vehicle game drives at first light, wrapped up in time for an afternoon tee time — not squeezed in after the round.
Nine nights built around the 3rd Test at FNB Stadium — six championship courses and two Big Five reserves woven in around it.
South African safari is at its best June through September. If September doesn't suit, gather a group of 12 or more and we'll build the same trip — golf, game drives, your dates.
While the golfers are on the course, the rest of the group has its own itinerary entirely — I run the golf side, my wife runs this side.
Sunrise flights over Pilanesberg National Park — a very different way to see the bush than from a vehicle.
A second drive scheduled for exactly when the golfers tee off, so nobody's waiting around at the lodge.
Elephant Whispers in Hazyview — hands-on time with a resident herd, guided by their handlers.
Non-golfing partners and friends are genuinely welcome on every trip — this isn't an afterthought bolted on to a golf tour.
Three tours in, and it's the same faces asking when the next one leaves.
"Three trips in, and every single one has ended the same way — already asking about the next one."
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