Fancourt

The Manor House at Fancourt is almost 150 years old. Close to the town of George in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, it was built in 1859 by an itinerant civil engineer by the name of Henry Fancourt White, who named it Blanco House. In the intervening years it has been a home to the great and the good, to some rogues and rascals, to ghosts and legend. In 1903 it was acquired by White's son. Montagu, who named it Fancourt in his father's honour. There is thus a certain serendipity to the fact that The Presidents Cup golf tournament will be played on The Links at Fancourt exactly 100 years after Montagu White renamed the estate.