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The course map of West Course: fairways, tees, greens, bunkers and water traced hole by hole, the same map the app plays a round on.

18Holes
72Par
42Rated tees
7Greens mapped
97Contours
12.8%Steepest slope

About West Course

West Course is an 18-hole golf course playing to par 72 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Robert Grimsdell, Mark Muller designed it, and it opened in 1935. GolfCore has mapped 7 greens here with contour lines and fall-line arrows. The card below lists 42 rated tees with yardages for all 18 holes. GPS yardages and scoring are free in the GolfCore app.

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Johannesburg, GT

+27 11 640 3021

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Green contour map of West Course in Johannesburg, South Africa: 97 elevation contours at a 8-centimeter interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar — One of 7 mapped greens at West Course. Cool colors sit low and warm colors high; white lines are contours at a 8-centimeter interval, and the arrows point down the fall line.

How the greens break

GolfCore traced 7 greens at West Course from 1-meter national lidar elevation data, with 97 elevation contours at a 8-centimeter interval. The steepest measured slope is 12.8 percent, and the largest rise across a single green is 1.60 m.

In the app the same map sits under your ball on every green, with the fall line drawn to the hole and the wind modeled at your position. At clubs that run GolfCore, the pins the shop sets each morning show up there too.

The card

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Tees

2,250 yds · Par 27 · Rating 55.4 · Slope 85

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	4	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	5	36
Yards	386	347	412	188	434	489	160	348	480	3,244
Hcp	3	4	1	7	2	6	5	8	9

Hole	Par	Yards	Hcp
1	4	386	3
2	4	347	4
3	4	412	1
4	3	188	7
5	4	434	2
6	5	489	6
7	3	160	5
8	4	348	8
9	5	480	9
Out	36	3,244

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
Orange (w)	2,250	27	55.4 / 85 (W)
Orange	2,250	27	53.2 / 81

Tees

6,400 yds · Par 72 · Rating 70.3 · Slope 125

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	5	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	37
Hcp	18	6	4	2	12	14	10	16	8

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	35
Hcp	3	1	9	7	11	5	13	15	17

Total72

Hole	Par	Hcp
1	5	18
2	3	6
3	4	4
4	4	2
5	3	12
6	5	14
7	4	10
8	5	16
9	4	8
Out	37
10	4	3
11	4	1
12	3	9
13	4	7
14	4	11
15	4	5
16	3	13
17	4	15
18	5	17
In	35
Total	72

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
Yellow (w) Re-Rate 1	7,203	72	80.5 / 150 (W)
Blue (w) Re-Rate 2	7,203	72	80.7 / 154 (W)
Blue Re-Rate 2	7,203	72	73.6 / 137
Yellow Re-Rate 1	7,203	72	73.6 / 137
Blue	7,120	72	73.8 / 137
White (w) Re-Rate 1	6,841	72	78.6 / 148 (W)
Yellow (w) Re-Rate 2	6,841	72	78.7 / 149 (W)
Yellow Re-Rate 2	6,841	72	72.0 / 132
White Re-Rate 1	6,841	72	72.0 / 131
Yellow	6,820	72	72.3 / 131
Blue (w) Re-Rate 1	6,407	72	75.7 / 140 (W)
White (w) Re-Rate 2	6,407	72	76.0 / 142 (W)
Blue Re-Rate 1	6,407	72	70.1 / 123
White Re-Rate 2	6,407	72	70.2 / 124
White(w)	6,400	72	76.7 / 146 (W)
White	6,400	72	70.3 / 125
Red (w) Re-Rate 2	5,774	72	72.4 / 132 (W)
Red (w) Re-Rate 1	5,774	72	72.5 / 130 (W)
Red Re-Rate 2	5,774	72	66.0 / 119
Red Re-Rate 1	5,774	72	66.4 / 120
Red(w)	5,765	72	72.8 / 139 (W)
Red	5,765	72	67.1 / 119

Tees

5,458 yds · Par 71 · Rating 65.2 · Slope 110

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	5	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	37
Hcp	18	6	4	2	12	14	10	16	8

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	35
Hcp	3	1	9	7	11	5	13	15	17

Total72

Hole	Par	Hcp
1	5	18
2	3	6
3	4	4
4	4	2
5	3	12
6	5	14
7	4	10
8	5	16
9	4	8
Out	37
10	4	3
11	4	1
12	3	9
13	4	7
14	4	11
15	4	5
16	3	13
17	4	15
18	5	17
In	35
Total	72

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
Blue (w)	6,244	71	74.9 / 132 (W)
Blue	6,244	71	69.1 / 119
Yellow (w)	5,892	71	72.7 / 130 (W)
Yellow	5,892	71	67.3 / 118
White (w)	5,458	71	70.2 / 124 (W)
White	5,458	71	65.2 / 110
Red (w)	4,818	71	66.6 / 113 (W)
Red	4,818	71	61.6 / 102

Tees

7,656 yds · Par 72 · Rating 83.1 · Slope 155

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	5	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	37
Yards	472	231	459	435	162	530	420	506	389	3,604
Hcp	18	6	4	2	12	14	10	16	8

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	35
Yards	474	457	181	384	413	440	190	354	504	3,397
Hcp	3	1	9	7	11	5	13	15	17

Total72 Yards7,001

Hole	Par	Yards	Hcp
1	5	472	18
2	3	231	6
3	4	459	4
4	4	435	2
5	3	162	12
6	5	530	14
7	4	420	10
8	5	506	16
9	4	389	8
Out	37	3,604
10	4	474	3
11	4	457	1
12	3	181	9
13	4	384	7
14	4	413	11
15	4	440	5
16	3	190	13
17	4	354	15
18	5	504	17
In	35	3,397
Total	72	7,001

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
Blue (w) Re-Rate 1 (BWA)	7,656	72	83.1 / 155 (W)
Blue Re-Rate 1	7,656	72	76.3 / 142
Yellow (w) Re-Rate 1 (BWA)	7,071	72	80.2 / 154 (W)
Yellow Re-Rate 1	7,071	72	73.6 / 135
Grey (w) Re-Rate 1 (BWA)	6,600	72	77.5 / 144 (W)
Grey Re-Rate 1	6,600	72	71.3 / 128
White (w) Re-Rate 1 (BWA)	5,978	72	73.7 / 131 (W)
White Re-Rate 1	5,978	72	68.1 / 119
Green (w) Re-Rate 1 (BWA)	4,883	72	67.6 / 120 (W)
Green Re-Rate 1	4,883	72	63.2 / 109

West Course plays 4 layouts, each with its own tees. Picking a tee shows that tee's own yardages, pars and stroke indexes where the club has rated them. Spot a wrong par, yardage or stroke index? Report it from Map Settings in the app, or send us a correction.

Course details

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Address: Johannesburg, GT
Phone: +27 11 640 3021
Website: royaljk.za.com
Architect: Robert Grimsdell, Mark Muller
Opened: 1935
Holes: 18
Par: 72
Layouts: 4
Tees on the card: 42, 42 USGA-rated
Greens mapped: 7
Elevation contours: 97
Contour interval: 8-centimeter
Largest green elevation span: 1.60 m
Steepest measured slope: 12.8%
Course map: Traced hole by hole
Wind modeling: Live wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy: 1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated: 2026-11-10

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