Posts Tagged ‘GolfRSA’
Victorious Van der Watt lifts the 2025 Proudfoot Trophy
17 February 2025 – JP van der Watt celebrated his first national success in front of a jubilant home crowd when he lifted the Proudfoot Trophy as the winner the stroke play section of the South African Amateur Championship on Monday. The home favourite fired an opening round of seven-under-par 65 to start the final…
Read MoreClassy Coetzee charges clear in SA Amateur
16 February 2025 – He was nervous to start with, but Juan Coetzee caught alight on the back nine at Humewood Golf Club on Sunday with seven birdies on his way to an opening eight-under-par 64 in the first round of the South African Amateur Championship. The 15-year-old Gauteng North junior started the day with…
Read MoreFlying Frenchman Auch-Roy soars to SA Stroke Play glory
13 February 2025 – It seems scarcely believable, but Frenchman Noa Auch-Roy almost lapped the field on Thursday in the gruelling 36-hole finale to the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Mossel Bay Golf Club. Play was delayed by an hour in the morning after two or three hours of torrential rain, and the…
Read MoreUnflappable Wessels keeps control at SA Stroke Play
12 February 2025 – Jordan Wessels had a superb front nine on Wednesday in the second round of the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Mossel Bay Golf Club, and that helped him to a five-under-par 67 and a three-stroke lead at the halfway mark. Wessels, who started his round on the 10th, eagled…
Read MoreWessels goes deep to lead SA Stroke Play in Mossel Bay
11 February 2025 – Mooinooi’s Jordan Wessels hit the front in the first round of the South African Stroke Play Championship at Mossel Bay Golf Club when he fired an eight-under-par 64 for a two-stroke lead on Tuesday. He held that edge over fellow-countrymen Nelis de Bruin and Liam Ross and Gregor Tait of Scotland.…
Read MoreNewman seals stunning Africa Amateur victory
8 February 2025 – South Africa’s Bryan Newman captured R&A Africa Amateur Championship in fine style, relying on a conversative approach to hold off the challenge of Zimbabwe’s Keegan Shutt to emerge victorious at Leopard Creek. Newman also had to deal with high temperatures and fast greens, but the 17-year-old overcame every obstacle to produce…
Read MoreRaad 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…
Read MoreNewman gunning for Africa Amateur glory
7 February 2025 – A towering seven-iron from 200 yards out on the 13th hole at Leopard Creek on Friday set Bryan Newman up for a fine four-under-par 68 in the third round of the R&A Amateur Africa Championship and a five-stroke lead ahead of the final round. The resultant eagle there, together with four…
Read MoreR&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…
Read MoreRaad 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…
Read MoreChatora, 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…
Read MoreLeopard 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…
Read MoreArthur the Lionheart seals dream GolfRSA International victory
31 January 2025 – It took a gritty birdie on the first extra-hole of a sudden-death play-off on Friday for Astin Arthur to overcome the challenge of Charl Barnard and win the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship at Royal Johannesburg Golf Club on the East Course. In the final round, the pair had gone toe-to-toe on…
Read MoreBrown 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. Brown’s closing five-under-par 67 was comfortably the best round of the final day as she…
Read MoreSA 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.…
Read MoreBrown 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…
Read MoreArthur 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…
Read MoreTeams 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,…
Read MoreLange triumphs in thriller Nomads Inland play-off
15 January 2025 – The first Nomads National Order of Merit Inland tournament of the 2025 season went deep into extra time at Benoni Country Club with Marno Lange edging Nicolas van der Vyver for the spoils. Just a few days after his twin-brother, Andries, won the season-opening Nomads National Order of Merit Coastal, Nicolas…
Read MoreViljoen victorious in Nomads SA U15 Championship
10 January 2025 – Shaun Viljoen begun his 2025 season with a statement of intent after his victory at the 2025 Nomads SA U15 Championship at Schoeman Park Golf Club in early January, while Andries van der Vyver and Marno Lange lifted the first two Nomads National Order of Merit trophies of the new year.…
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