Houghton Golf Club
Houghton Golf Club: Jack Nicklaus (2010). Par 72, 7,279 yards. Charl Schwartzel won the 2004 Alfred Dunhill Championship here with 281 (−7).
Houghton Golf Club: Jack Nicklaus (2010). Par 72, 7,279 yards. Charl Schwartzel won the 2004 Alfred Dunhill Championship here with 281 (−7).
Houghton Golf Club: Jack Nicklaus (2010). Par 72, 7,279 yards. Charl Schwartzel won the 2004 Alfred Dunhill Championship here with 281 (−7).
Updated October 24, 2026
17 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
Sunshine Tour; European Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Charl Schwartzel | 281 (−7) | won in a playoff |
| 2003 | Mark Foster | 273 (−15) | won in a playoff |
| 2002 | Justin Rose | 268 (−20) | by 2 strokes |
| 2001 | Adam Scott | 267 (−21) | lowest winning score in this event · by 1 stroke |
| 2000 | Anthony Wall | 204 (−12) | by 2 strokes |
DP World Tour; Sunshine Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dan Bradbury | 263 (−17) | by 1 stroke |
| 2025 | Calum Hill | 266 (−14) | won in a playoff |
| 2023 | Dean Burmester | 262 (−18) | by 3 strokes |
| 2022 | Dan Bradbury | 263 (−21) | lowest winning score in this event · by 3 strokes |
unofficial / pre-tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Gary Player | 274 | by 7 strokes |
| 1966 | Gary Player | 278 | by 1 stroke |
| 1962 | Harold Henning | 285 | by 1 stroke |
Sunshine Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Gary Player | 279 (−9) | by 1 stroke |
| 1976 | Dale Hayes | 287 (−1) | won in a playoff |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Ernie Els | 273 (−15) | by 3 strokes · Sunshine Tour |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Tony Johnstone | 274 (−14) | by 3 strokes · Sunshine Tour |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Bobby Locke | 277 | by 9 strokes · unofficial / pre-tour |
The Jack Nicklaus Signature course that replaced the old parkland layout around 2010 reversed several of the old holes, putting greens where tees used to be.
Source: SA Top 100 Courses
English rookie Dan Bradbury led the 2022 Joburg Open at Houghton from start to finish for his first DP World Tour title, and won the event again in 2026.
Source: Sky Sports · The Golf News Net
Houghton's first big championship was the 1951 South African Open, won by Bobby Locke.
Source: Wikipedia (nl): Houghton Golf Club · Wikipedia: South African Open
In front of The Houghton apartments is a nine-hole putting course of par 3s and par 4s on bent grass, complete with flat bunkers, waste areas and ponds.
Source: SA Top 100 Courses
The rebuilt par-3 7th plays over water in an amphitheatre overlooked by The Houghton apartments, part of the high-rise hotel and apartment block built on one corner of the course.
Source: SA Top 100 Courses
For the 2022 Joburg Open the par-5 15th was played as a par 4, and in 2023 the 3rd was converted too, cutting the tournament par to 70.
Source: SA Top 100 Courses
The modern one-storey clubhouse, with parking in a basement beneath it, stands in the middle of the course overlooking the 1st and 18th holes.
Source: SA Top 100 Courses
Jack Nicklaus
new Jack Nicklaus Signature course built on the same property to replace the old parkland layout; several hole directions reversed
Source: SA Top 100 Courses
new 12th green built into the water hazard; 7th rebuilt as par 3 over water
Source: SA Top 100 Courses
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Joburg Open 5–8 March 2026 | Dan Bradbury | DP World Tour |
| 2025 | Joburg Open 6–9 March 2025 | Calum Hill | DP World Tour |
| 2023 | Joburg Open 23–26 November 2023 | Dean Burmester | DP World Tour |
| 2022 | Joburg Open 24–27 November 2022 | Dan Bradbury | DP World Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The routing and ground are drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
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