Blair Atholl Golf Estate

The most remarkable thing about the Blair Atholl is the diversity of natural habitats within such a localised area. Within five minutes and looking across 600 Hectares of land, you will feel that you really could be anywhere. Stand just north of the stone-clad clubhouse and look back at it through a screen of indigenous bush and you could be at an exclusive private bush lodge, miles from anywhere. Visit the rustic halfway house reached via its wooden walkways and decking in a cool shady glade just off the Crocodile River and you could be on the banks of a trout stream in the mountains. Walk through the meadows that flank the 10th hole, sweeping down and over the valley, framed by mountains hazy in the distance, and you could be on the Garden Route. It’s hard to believe such an undisturbed natural gem could be within striking distance of Johannesburg. Just fifteen minutes from Fourways and five from Lanseria, the horizon is a blue-green veil of distance-dappled mountains.