Reading Country Club
Golf in Alberton

Steeped in tradition and service excellence we guarantee that your visit to Reading Country Club.

Reading Country Club -The perfect balance between modern facilities and traditional values, stunning natural beauty and welcoming ambience. Set in an undulating, picturesque tree-lined woodlands layout, it satisfies both the golf enthusiast, as well as the professional. The course is anything but straightforward and hugely entertaining, adapting to all levels of play. Reading Country Club is easy accessible from all major highways. Steeped in tradition and boasting service excellence, we guarantee that your visit to Reading Country Club will be a pleasurable and memorable one. The pages of history are lettered with examples of achievement borne of necessity and so it is with our own history. From that necessity there developed by slow and often painful stages, the achievement you now see. The meeting was an informal one and those present were Messrs. H. Rosen, B.N. To negotiate for and purchase land suitable for the establishment of a Country Club. In addition to other conditions an important factor was that the ground should be as near as possible to the two towns which the Club would serve. Silver, J. Kramer and J. Sher guaranteed the necessary bank overdraft and the project was launched. The ground which had been purchased was the most suitable that was available at the time, but it would be misleading in the extreme, to say that building a golf course on it presented no problems. Part of the ground had been used as a brickfield and the gaping clay pits led to many a pessimistic prognosis from prominent members of the committee. These were the patent hazards that were only discovered later. The initial plan for the golf course envisaged construction on a large scale, to be let out on contract, to a plan prepared by a golf architect. A resolution was moved at this meeting, that in view of the hostilities, which had broken out, the whole scheme should be abandoned and the money collected handed to some deserving charity. This proposition was defeated, but a further resolution that the plan to engage a contractor to lay out the course should be shelved and in its place the Committee should proceed with the work with its own labour to a plan prepared by Mr. Sid Brews. Mr. Solly Kaplan undertook to do the Club audit in an honorary capacity. Work on the golf course began immediately, under the supervision of Sid Brews. One of the essentials at this stage was to obtain an adequate water supply. The next attempt met with success and the late Jock van Lingen was the successful contractor. The completion of the new Club House goes back a long way to the year 1941, when it was decided to embark on a building programme to provide a Club House adequate to meet the individual needs of the members. Eventually, building control was imposed and the general war situation made it impracticable to proceed with that scheme. The facilities provided were not adequate, but the inconvenience was borne philosophically because members knew that a new structure would eventually take its place, An opportune time to embark upon the larger scheme arrived with the end of the war in Europe and with it a campaign for funds to finance the present building was launched.