Schoemanpark Golf & Recreation Club | 1 Maselspoort Rd, East End, Bloemfontein, 9300

Schoemanpark Golf and Recreation Club we are located at 1 Masselspoort Road, Linquinda, Bloemfontein, Free State. Golf has been played in Bloemfontein for a lot longer than some might realize, and long before the post-World War I golf boom took place, there was a fanatical group of golfing diehards playing their beloved game in the Free States capital city. As in other major centres, the Victorian courses were modest affairs, carved out of virgin bush (or in the case of Bloem, stark savanna veld). Rather curiously, as the game became evermore popular in Bloemfontein, two very fine 18-hole layouts came into being right next to each other. The history of the game here is rather sketchy, but we do know that an advertisement appeared in The Friend newspaper calling on interested parties to meet and form a golf club as early as 1894. By the end of this decade, before the outbreak of the Boer War, there were 40 members of the Bloemfontein Golf Club, two of whom actually played off a scratch handicap.