Two flags. One fairway.

Most golf tours hand you to a driver and a list of tee times. Ours are hosted by two PGA Professionals who travel with you and run every day, from the first dinner to the last. A lesson or a round with them is there if you ask.

South Africa

Franco Groenewald

PGA of South Africa Class A Professional · Mossel Bay

Franco started an industrial psychology degree, dropped it, picked up a golf club in March 2019 and went from an eleven handicap to scratch inside eighteen months. He moved to Mossel Bay in 2021, took a waiter's job to get near a golf course, was in operations within a month and was managing the pro shop at Pinnacle Point by 2024.

It is an odd pairing, psychology and a professional's card, and exactly the one this job needs: someone who reads a group of twenty and can also get a tee sheet, a kitchen and a game ranger to land on the same hour.

PGA of South AfricaClass A Professional, qualified January 2025

Pinnacle Point Golf EstatePro shop manager

GC3 launch-monitor studioClub fitting, built and run

CoachingDirector of a coaching company and the Big 5 Golf Academy junior programme

11 to scratch in 18 monthsWhich explains the rest

KMKen Mattiace

United States

Ken Mattiace

PGA Professional · United States

Ken is Links & Leopards's partner in the United States and your first call at home. He helps you plan the trip before you leave: who's coming, how many play, which month and which journey suits the group.

Then he travels with you and runs the days so they go the way American golfers expect, while Franco makes sure South Africa shows you its best.

Championship course, lake and mountains from the air

On tour: the Garden Route

On tour

What your hosts actually do.

The welcome

Franco and Ken meet you on arrival and walk you through the journey: every day, every hotel and every tee time.

Every day, run for you

Tee times, transfers, tables and game drives handled before you ask, so all you do is turn up.

If you ask

A lesson, a range session or a round with Franco or Ken, whenever you want one. We never assume it.

Leaderboard and prize-giving

An optional running competition, with the prize-giving on a Winelands estate on the final evening.

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