Month: May 2014
Gauteng North ties SAGA Juniors at Challenge Cup
The South African Golf Association Junior side and Gauteng North are deadlocked at the top of the standings at the Challenge Cup Teams Tournament after second round action wrapped up at Cullinan Golf Club on Tuesday.
North West holds on at SA Country Districts
North West proclaimed their intention with a dominating performance in the opening round of the SA Country Districts Tournament in the Eastern Cape, but the defending champions came unstuck against a spirited Boland challenge on day two at the Fish River Sun Country Club.
SAGA Juniors dominate at Challenge Cup
The South African Golf Association Junior side mowed down the Presidents Team to pull into pole position alongside Central Gauteng in the first round of the Challenge Cup Teams Tournament on Monday.
Persistent Watson wins Volvo SA Mid-Amateur
A birdie at the 10th and a Seve Ballesteros-style bunker shot at the 12th boosted Graeme Watson’s flagging confidence and carried the Ebotse golfer to victory at the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Friday.
Watson carded rounds of 70, 71, 70 and 73 at Ruimsig Country Club to claim a four shot victory over Modderfontein’s Steve Williams on a winning score of four-under-par 284.
Lawrence in the hunt at Irish Amateur
Just a few days after he lifted the Royal Lytham Trophy in England, reigning Sanlam SA Amateur champion Thriston Lawrence is in pursuit of Irishman Gary McDermott at the Irish Amateur Open in Dublin.
Lawrence became the first South African to win the prestigious Royal Lytham Trophy on Sunday, and now hopes to emulate Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen, who won the championship in 2002.
Samu comes of age at Gauteng Champs
Gauteng junior Ivanna Samu emulated former top amateur Ashleigh Simon when she claimed the ProShop Ladies Golf Gauteng Championship on Sunday.
Watson the man to beat at Volvo SA Mid-Amateur
Graeme Watson gave himself the ideal opportunity to notch victory at the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship as he snatched the outright lead in the third round at Ruimsig Country Club on Thursday.
Watson & Williams take charge at SA Mid-Amateur
A significantly slimmer Graeme Watson may be fighting a knee injury and a scrappy game, but the former SA number one still produced the kind of round that landed him a share of the lead with Steve Williams at the halfway mark of the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
Trio share control at SA Mid-Amateur
Former champion Neil Homann claimed a share of the three-way tie atop a tightly packed leaderboard in the first round of the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Ruimsig Country Club on Tuesday.
The 2012 champion from Wanderers recovered well from a bumpy start to reel in three birdies after the turn and set the early target at two-under-par 70.
Top amateurs gun for SA Mid-Amateur glory
Greg Sheard will launch his title defence in the South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play at Ruimsig Country Club on Tuesday, but high stakes and a clutch of in-form champions has increased the pressure on the defending champion.
Lawrence follows Els and Locke to victory at Royal Lytham
Mpumalanga teenager Thriston Lawrence followed Open champions Ernie Els and Bobby Locke into the winner’s circle at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club when he became the first South African to lift the Lytham Trophy in the 50th edition of the prestigious amateur championship on Sunday.
SA claims 16th All-Africa Junior Golf Championship
South Africa put an exclamation mark on a successful title defence at the All-Africa Junior Golf Championship in Lusaka to claim the country’s 16th consecutive victory in the prestigious team event on Thursday.
The four-man junior squad stretched an almost unassailable 21 shot lead after three rounds at Chainama Hills Golf Club to a 35-stroke victory over Zimbabwe on a winning score of 873.