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SA Women’s Amateur celebrations for Raad and Samuels

28 February 2025 – Gia Raad became only the 13th woman to win back-to-back South African Women’s Amateur Championship titles since 1906 when she outlasted Lisa Coetzer 7&6 in the 36-hole final, while England’s Tess Samuels edged Isabella Orray 1-up for the Flight Division title at PE Golf Club – The Hill on Friday. WATCH:…

Raad targets SA Women’s Amateur double

27 February 2025 – Gia Raad has set herself up for a shot at winning a second consecutive South African Women’s Amateur Championship as she played her way into the final with a pair of impressive victories in the quarter-finals and semi-finals on Thursday at PE Golf Club – The Hill. She got into the…

Webster’s punches SA Women’s Amateur top 8 spot

26 February 2025 – Kaylee Webster won what was perhaps the most entertaining match of the day on Wednesday in the South African Women’s Amateur Championship at PE Golf Club – The Hill when she beat Isabella Ferreira 1-up in the round of 16. Earlier in the day, the 16-year-old Webster had dispatched Alieke van…

Louw, Sebata crowned champions in SA Women’s Stroke Play

25 February 2025 – Kesha Louw cemented her status as GolfRSA’s number one amateur with a come-from-behind play-off victory in the South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship, while Mogomotsi Sebata lifted the B-Division title at a rainy and windy PE Golf Club – The Hill in Gqeberha on Tuesday. The 18-year-old kept her head…

Coetzer keeps pole in the SA Women’s Amateur Stroke Play

24 February 2025 – Lisa Coetzer carded the second-lowest round of the day when her two-under-par 70 took her to a three-stroke lead after the second round of the South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Port Elizabeth Golf Club. Once again, the front nine proved challenging, but Coetzer got her scoring done early…

Coetzer soars on wings of eagles at SA Women’s Stroke Play

23 February 2025 – Lisa Coetzer made two eagles on Sunday on her way to a six-under-par 66 and a two-stroke lead after the first round of the South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at PE Golf Club – The Hill. The eagles came on the back nine after she had made three bogeys…

Raad crowned Queen of the African Continent at Leopard Creek

7 February 2025 – Reigning SA Women’s Amateur champion Gia Raad kept her cool on Friday after an early double-bogey, and carded a one-under-par 71 at Leopard Creek to close out a two-stroke victory in the R&A Amateur Africa Women’s Invitational. That calmness not only gained her the title, but also invitations to compete in…

R&A backs GolfRSA Tournament Support Programme to benefit young golfers

The GolfRSA Tournament Support Programme, a development initiative funded by The R&A, the National Lotteries Commission and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture in South Africa, has been introduced to provide pathways into the sport for golfers from less privileged backgrounds. The initiative will offer financial support to cover travel, accommodation and subsistence to…

Raad and Craig power to the summit at Leopard Creek

6 February 2025 – The top of the leaderboard took on a distinctly South African hue on Thursday at Leopard Creek in the R&A Africa Women’s Invitational and the Africa Amateur Championship as Gia Raad was the only woman under-par and Roelof Craig topped the scores with a second successive four-under-par 68. Raad unfurled three…

Chatora, Coetzer lead the way in Africa Amateur at Leopard Creek

5 February 2025 – Jack Buchanan birdied the iconic par-five 18th at Leopard Creek, but still finished two shots shy of Zimbabwe’s Tanaka Chatora in the opening round of the R&A Africa Amateur Championship, while South Africa’s number one Lisa Coetzer opened up a two-shot lead in the Africa Amateur Women’s Invitational. Chatora responded in…

Leopard Creek the hunting ground for huge rewards in the Africa Amateurs

4 February 2025 – South Africa’s number one amateur Astin Wade Arthur is only too aware of what’s at stake this week with the playing of the R&A Africa Amateur Championship which gets underway at Leopard Creek from Wednesday. The winner of the 72-hole championship between 72 players from 22 countries will earn exemptions into…

Brown closes out GolfRSA International win in style

31 January 2025 – Bobbi Brown was in a league of her own on Friday as she romped home by eight shots to take victory in the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship at Royal Johannesburg Golf Club on the East Course. WATCH: Celebrating 2025 GolfRSA International Amateur Champions Arthur Astin & Bobbi Brown Brown’s closing five-under-par…

SA teams swoop to spirited double GolfRSA International triumph

30 January 2025 – It was no-holds barred on moving day in the GolfRSA International Amateur Championships, as the Protea Men and Women scooped both Team Competition titles, Charl Barnard fired a career-best nine-under-par 63 at Royal Johannesburg’s East Course to top the men’s leaderboard and Bobbi Brown extended her lead in the women’s tournament.…

Brown blitzes to GolfRSA International lead

JOHANNESBURG, 29 January 2025 – Bobbi Brown converted her love of the Royal Johannesburg East Course into a fine six-under-par 66 on Wednesday in the second round of the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship to take a two-stroke lead after 36 holes. It was something of an up-and-down affair on the front nine as she started…

Arthur off to a flying start in GolfRSA International

JOHANNESBURG, 28 January 2025 – Astin Arthur produced an almost perfect final six holes on Tuesday in the first round of the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship played on the Royal Johannesburg East Course as he carded a superb seven-under-par 65 to take the 18-hole lead. Arthur, who turned 21 on January 15, took on the…

Teams Primed to fly SA flag at GolfRSA International

20 January 2025 – South Africa will proudly be represented by five teams when the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship launches the 2025 South African Swing at Royal Johannesburg from 28–31 January on the prestigious East Course of Royal Johannesburg. Teams comprising South Africa’s top-ranked Men’s and Women’s Open and Junior amateurs, alongside two Presidents Teams,…

Valiant Proteas clinch second in AACT in Morocco

10 December 2024 – Kesha Louw, Lisa Coetzer and Gia Raad overcame early challenges to rally to a runner-up finish behind the home heroes at Tazegzout Golf Club at the 2024 All Africa Challenge Trophy in Morocco in late November. Top-ranked Sofia Cherif Essakali spearheaded her side’s title charge thanks to some exhilarating golf which saw…

GolfRSA’s 2024 Champion of Champions crowned at Pecanwood

The 2024 GolfRSA Champion of Champions National Final came to a thrilling conclusion with seven new champions delivered by The Courier Guy at Pecanwood Golf and Country Estate in October. A-DIVISION Luke Moore from Border and Southern Cape’s Isabella Ferreira both demonstrated their skill in windy conditions on the final day, emerging victorious in the…

Play Royal Portrush before the Pros

1 September 2025 – Imagine walking the historic fairways of Royal Portrush Golf Club – the same course where legends and global stars of the game have competed in pursuit of glory. For two lucky South African amateurs, that dream will become a reality with the third GolfRSA Race to The R&A 9 Hole Challenge.…

Flying the flag in Finland

29 August 2024 – Five of South Africa’s leading university students represented the country in the 2024 FISU World University Championship Golf, which was held in Finland in August. GolfRSA National Squad member JP van der Watt and South African Golf Development Board graduate Crystal Beukes made their second appearance, having flown for South Africa…