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Pebble Beach, Augusta, St Andrews
would probably be a top most avid
golfers list.
But what if I told you there was a
little slice of golf heaven that you've
probably never heard of. What if I
told you for the price of your local
muni, you could walk on top of
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fairways, while enjoying more scenic
views of Pebble. This, my friend, is
the garden route.
The garden route is a 300km ( about
220 miles for you yanks) stretch of
golfers paradise on the southeastern
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the most impressive golf courses
known to man, and they are accessible
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very very cheap to play.
Be ready to shell out hundreds of
bucks if you want to tee it up at a
premier site in the States if you can
even get on. On the garden route, the
most expensive tee you will get during
the season, which starts in December (
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it's a 15-hour plane ride to get here.
Now that you've stopped complaining,
let me continue.
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raised with a lion cub by my side,
swinging from the vines in the nearby