Golf & safari · Ten African countries

The great African safari, with the world's most extraordinary golf woven through it.

For everyone who wants to play golf in Africa — your first round on the continent or the trip you've promised yourself for years. Hosted small-group departures, tailor-made journeys, and two people who have personally played and slept their way across all of it.

Golf safari in Africa — championship golf beside the wild
Experience60+ years in African travel
AccreditationIAGTO member
Reach10 countries, personally travelled
Hosted groupsNever more than 16
The Africa Golf Safari flagship

The Greatest Africa

If you only did Africa once, this is the journey.

Cape Town to the mountain gorillas in a single, seamless crossing — six of the continent’s defining places, the golf woven through, and not one wasted day. There is no other trip like it, because there is no one else who builds it.

Cape Town · Victoria Falls · Nairobi · Maasai Mara · Kigali · The Gorillas

From US$21,500 pp sharing · ground only · hosted or private charter

The Greatest Africa flagship golf safari — Cape Town to the gorillas
Three ways to travel

Choose your way in.

Hosted small-group golf safari departure
Scheduled departures · 2026–2028

Hosted departures

Set dates, small groups, a host who handles every border, bag and tee time — from escorted Mauritius and Cape tours with PGA pro Jacques Gous to the gorilla and Best of Africa safaris. All listed by date.

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Tailor-made African golf safari design
Tailor-made

Signature journeys

Twenty-four journeys across six destinations — from a week in the Cape to a three-country crossing — each one a starting point we shape around you.

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Answer a few questions and our Journey Designer drafts an itinerary around your golf, your wildlife list and your budget — checked by a named specialist before it reaches you.

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Our selected journeys

Four journeys we'd take ourselves.

Travelled, refined and priced — see exactly what a journey looks like before you make it your own.

The Cape and the Smoke That Thunders golf safari
South Africa · Zimbabwe · 14 days

The Cape & the Smoke That Thunders

Cape Town, two rounds on the Links, the Sabi Sand and the Falls — the definitive first golf safari.

From US$11,900 pp sharing

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Rwanda gorillas and Gary Player golf journey
Rwanda · 6 days

Gorillas & the Gary Player

The most humbling hour in travel, bookended by East Africa's only Player design. Short, intense, unforgettable.

From US$8,950 pp sharing

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Migration season golf safari Kenya
Kenya · 9 days

The Migration Nine

Muthaiga Golf Club and Karen Country Club at altitude, then a private Maasai Mara conservancy timed to the river crossings.

From US$12,800 pp sharing

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Falls and Fairways Zimbabwe Zambia journey
Zimbabwe · Zambia · 8 days

Falls & Fairways

The thunder of the Falls, a round above the gorge, and Hwange's 30,000 elephants.

From US$7,900 pp sharing

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All twelve journeys
Why a golf safari

The bush empties you out. The game fills you back up.

Dawn belongs to the wild — the drives, the silence, the day with no decisions. Afternoon belongs to the round, the caddie, the sundowner. Together they do something neither manages alone.

Golfers and the Gallery travel as one party: while you play, the non-golfers take the spa, the vineyard or another drive — and often come home the happiest of all.

A golf safari day in two halves
In our guests' words

Eight years, and 68% who come back.

No wall of awards — just guests who travel with us again and tell their friends.

★★★★★

Teeing off at Leopard Creek with the Crocodile River below and elephants on the far bank is something I'll never top. Every transfer, every tee time, every game drive without a single hiccup.

Richard Halloran
United States · Connecticut

★★★★★

The balance of golf and safari was judged perfectly. Watching the wildebeest on the Mara at dawn after a morning on the course is the memory that's stayed with me. Faultless from start to finish.

Fiona Carmichael
United Kingdom · Surrey

★★★★★

They built the itinerary around exactly what my wife and I wanted. Playing with Kilimanjaro in the background was surreal, and the Ngorongoro Crater exceeded every expectation.

Lukas Brandt
Germany · Munich

Encounters

Play with a legend. Run with a champion. Stand with the people saving the wild.

A quiet register of remarkable people we can bring into your journey — arranged privately, for your party only.

Private round with Gary Player at Leopard Creek
Sporting legends

Gary Player

A private round at Leopard Creek Country Club with the man who built modern African golf. No gallery. No fanfare. Just the game.

Run with Eliud Kipchoge in Kenya
Sporting legends

Eliud Kipchoge

A training loop at altitude in Kaptagat with the greatest marathoner in history. Rare, philosophical, unforgettable.

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund research encounter, Rwanda
Conservation & science

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

A day inside the world's longest-running gorilla research programme — science first, photographs second.

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Where we go

Six destinations. Curated, not collected.

We sell ten countries through six doors — and only the ground we have stood on ourselves.

Kenya golf safari
East Africa

Kenya

The birthplace of safari — and the best-kept secret in African golf.

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Rwanda and Uganda gorilla golf safari
Rwanda & Uganda

Gorilla Country

The most humbling hour in travel — and East Africa's only Gary Player course.

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Tanzania golf safari
East Africa

Tanzania & Zanzibar

The Migration's home ground, a course beneath Kilimanjaro, an island finish.

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South Africa golf tour
Southern Africa

South Africa

The deepest field of courses on the continent — and the most reliable Big Five.

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Victoria Falls golf safari
Zimbabwe & Zambia

Victoria Falls

The thunder of the Falls, Africa's best guides, and golf on the Zambezi's lip.

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Namibia and Botswana golf safari
Namibia & Botswana

Desert & Delta

The oldest desert on earth, the greatest water wilderness — golf as the gentle bookend.

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Light aircraft used on African golf safaris
How we fly

The right aircraft for every leg.

Scheduled flights where they make sense; light aircraft where they save you a day or reach a strip nothing else can. From the Caravan that makes the Okavango work to the helicopter that lands you at a vineyard for lunch.

Who we are

Graeme & Shelagh Harker

Two Africans, more than sixty years in travel between them, a 4x4, a trailer, and a set of golf clubs that has seen ten countries' worth of first tees. We recommend nothing we haven't lived.

Years in African travel60+
Countries, in person10
Max hosted group12
Graeme and Shelagh Harker of Africa Golf Safari
The Journal

Dispatches from the field.

Fancourt Links course report
Golf · 25 Mar 2026

Fancourt Links after the refurbishment

Six greens replaced, the eighth bunker rebuilt, the routing untouched. We played all 18. The report.

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When to visit the Masai Mara
Destinations · 15 Apr 2026

When to visit the Mara

The migration is one factor. The conservancies, the rains and the river are the others. A month-by-month guide.

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Rhino conservation in the Okavango
Conservation · 1 Apr 2026

Rhinos return to the Delta

The relocation programme has established a viable rhino population in the Okavango. Where the work stands today.

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Giving back

One per cent of every journey supports the communities that host us.

Through iThemba Projects in Sweetwaters and community work in Knysna, a share of every Africa Golf Safari journey goes back into education and conservation on the ground. We'll show you the work, not just the logo.

Tell us how you want to feel when you come home.

We'll build the wild, and the golf, around that — and nothing else.

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