COURSE Construction
“The Alfred Dunhill Championship is staged at the magnificent Leopard Creek Country Club, overlooking Kruger National Park. Since 2000 this prestigious tournament has occupied a unique place in world golf with champions which have included Major winners and former World No.1 golfers such as Justin Rose, Adam Scott, Charl Schwartzel and Ernie Els.”
OFFICIAL Opening
In January and February of 2000, eastern parts of Southern Africa received some of heaviest rain experienced for 100 years. For Leopard Creek, the deluge culminated in the Crocodile River, which separates it from the Kruger National Park, bursting its banks and causing considerable damage to property situated on the river front.
THE 2000 Flood
It was especially the 13th hole green complex, perched atop the Crocodile, that bore the brunt, with the resulting reconstruction costing multi-millions of Rand…
The golf course itself was not spared either, with substantial damage stemming from soil erosion, in the midst of a course modifications that were well underway.”
A DAY IN
THE LIFE OF…
The finished collection is a truly magnificent spectacle, starting on the first tee with ‘Leopard Lying on Rock’, showing our beloved Leopard slowly stirring to welcome the day, and ending on the 18th tee box with ‘Leopard Standing on Slope’, showing the Leopard surveying the vast bushveld at the end of another glorious day under the African skies. Each sculpture is a masterpiece in its own right, but the collection truly comes to life when viewed in sequence over the course of a round at Leopard Creek.
“When Johann Rupert first approached sculptor Dylan Lewis, the intention was for Dylan to sculpt a monumental leopard, which Johann envisioned would be the focal point of the Leopard Creek clubhouse. During the course of their conversation, Dylan proposed a series of sculptures instead, one for each hole, following the leopard’s movements over a day.”
