Venue							Promoter
East London GC Buffalo City Metro Municipality Eastern Cape South Africa Tel: +27 (0)43 735 1356 Fax: +27 (0)43 735 1390 Location: Eastern Cape Nearest Airport: East London (25 mins) Golf Course Website: www.elgc.co.za Tournament Website: www.africaopengolf.com							Mrs Mbali Ngqula Dlamini Weil Communications Unit 21A The Woodlands Western Service Rd Woodmead, Sandton 2196 South Africa Tel: +27 11 804 1485 Fax: +27 11 804 3512 Mobile: +27 83 380 9406 Email: mbali@dwcs.co.za

Grass
Type of grass - Sea Dwarf Seashore Paspalum
Height of cut - 3.5mm
Speed / stimpmeter reading - 9'6"
Any specific comments - greens quite small and flat

Fairways
Type of greens - Cynodon / Kikuyu
Height of cut - 11mm
General width and contouring - average width

Tees / collars
Tpe of grass - Cynodon / Kikuyu / Paspalum
Height of cut - tees: 10mm, collars: 9mm

Rough
Type of grass - natural indigenous grasses
Height of cut - semi 25mm, rough 80mm
Any specific comments - dense and penal

Weather
Weather in advance - a lot of rain leading up to the event
Forecast for tournament - overcast with the odd shower

Course
Opened - 1893
Course designer - Colonel SV Hotchkin
General playability - windy as the course is by the coast
Tree lined / exposed - a lot of holes are treelined so accuracy will be rewarded, and features a unique natural course layout which meanders through coastal dunes and indigenous bush

Other features
Spectacular viewing over the Indian Ocean