Ivanna Samu confirmed her status as South Africa’s number one women’s amateur when she won the Sanlam South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Glendower Golf Club on Tuesday.

As a sergeant in the Ugandan army, Flavia Namakula has brought a certain military precision to the Ugandan golfers competing in this week’s Sanlam South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Glendower Golf Club.

South Africa’s top ranked Ivanna Samu, Cara Gorlei and Chiara Contomathios were honoured at the Womens Golf South Africa Annual General Meeting held during the Sanlam SA Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Glendower Golf Club on Monday.

South African number one Ivanna Samu will take a three-stroke lead into Tuesday’s final round of the Sanlam South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Glendower Golf Club.

Half-a-dozen birdies helped Ivanna Samu into pole position in the Sanlam SA Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Glendower Golf Club on Monday.
The country’s top ranked amateur started the second round four off the pace, but overhauled overhaul overnight leader Bianca Lohbauer with a superb two-under-par 70.

Boland amateur Bianca Lohbauer stole the show on the tournament favourites in the first round of the prestigious Sanlam SA Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Sunday.
The 19-year-old Boland amateur produced a solid one-over-par 73 as the field struggled to come to terms with the undulating greens and the blustery conditions at Glendower Golf Club and the lead changed hands at least half-a-dozen times.

It’s one of South Africa’s most historic golf clubs, and top-ranked women’s amateur Ivanna Samu wants to make some history of her own when she tees it up in the Sanlam Women's South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Glendower Golf Club from 19-21 April.

Chiara Contomathios demonstrated maturity well beyond her years to hold off South Africa’s number one ranked Ivanna Samu for a one stroke victory in the Nomads SA Girl’s Rose Bowl Championship at Paarl Golf Club on Tuesday.

South Africa’s top ranked Ivanna Samu took the 36-hole lead in the Nomads SA Girl’s Rose Bowl Championship on Monday and heads up a strong Gauteng challenge at Paarl Golf Club.

Cara Gorlei claimed her third podium finish this season when she edged out local favourite Lizzie Currie by two strokes for the KwaZulu-Natal Stroke Play Championship title at Beachwood on Sunday.

Cara Gorlei from Western Province, Shawnelle de Lange from Gauteng and Demi Flanagan from Border will fly the flag for South Africa at the fifth Regional All-Africa Challenge Trophy (RAACT) at the Omeya Golf Estate in Windhoek from 27-30 April.

Just a little over a month since she lifted the Eastern Province Championship Match Play title, Cara Gorlei was in ascendancy again in the Pam Golding Properties WGWP Amateur Championship.
Coming off a tie for second in the stroke play, the Western Province number one defeated fellow Western Province Squad member Zayb Fredericks 3 & 2 at Bellville Golf Club.

Western Province’s Amy Henning will chase down the Pam Golding Properties WGWP Amateur Championship double after claiming the Edith Bowie Trophy in the Stroke Play Championship at Bellville Golf Club on Monday.

Ivanna Samu is brimming with confidence after a four-stroke victory at the recent North West Championship at Pecanwood Golf and Country Club. The reigning Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur champion held off a spirited final round charge from SA Olympian Kaleigh Telfer with a six under 66 to seal her second podium finish on a winning total of eight-under-par 136.

South Africa’s Altin van der Merwe beat Finland’s Ilari Saulo by two strokes to claim the Boys Division in the Curro South Africa Juniors International, while Swiss amateur Azelia Meichtry denied 2014 winner Kaleigh Telfer from South Africa a repeat victory in the Girls Division of the Global Junior Golf Tour event at Durbanville Golf Club on Thursday.

Eagle Canyon’s Woo-Ju Son leads the South African charge in the Girls Division of the Curro South African Juniors International (SAJI), while Free State golfer Steven le Roux blazed a trail to the top of the Boys Division leaderboard at the 36-hole mark in the Global Junior Golf Tour event at Durbanville Golf Club on Wednesday.

Michael Sherriff took early control in the Boys Division of the Curro South African Juniors International (SAJI), while Azelia Meichtry from Switzerland led the Girls Division after first round action wrapped up in the Global Junior Golf Tour season opener at Durbanville Golf Club on Tuesday.
Sherriff and Meichtry were among only four players that managed to break par on a very windy day in the Western Cape.

Zethu Myeki and Demi Flanagan ensured a superb one-two finish for Border when the rising stars beat out some of the country’s top amateurs to take the honours in the Border Ladies Championship this February.

Ivanna Samu's meteoritic rise to the number one spot in the WGSA Junior Rankings was instigated by a runner-up finish at the Gauteng North Junior Girls’ Open Championship early in February last year. On Sunday, the leggy teenager came full circle when she claimed a play-off victory in the 2015 edition at Centurion Country Club.

Former top ranked SA junior Bianca Theron returned to her vintage best at Humewood Links and issued a warning to her peers an emphatic six stroke victory in the Eastern Province Stroke Play Championship on the weekend.
“That first round set me up for victory, because the wind howled in the afternoon and the final round was a lot more colourful,” Theron said. “It’s been a while since I competed and I was really excited to get the juices flowing. I still feel a little bit rusty, but I was surprised how quickly I got back into competition mode."