Home to one of the world's most challenging links courses, Humewood is consistently ranked as one of South Africa's Top 10 golf courses.

The late Bobby Locke considered Humewood Golf Course to be the best in South Africa and said that it compared favourably with the top links courses in the British Isles. Humewood has hosted the South African Amateur 9 times and the South African Open 4 times.

The back nine has been built in bigger dunes, and has the more attractive holes. Most of the holes are either into-or downwind. It might be unlucky for some golfers, but the 13th is a really demanding test, a long par-4 climbing gradually up and over a rolling fairway to a golfing green perched on the crest of a sand dune.