Posts Tagged ‘SA Amateur’
Braveheart Barnard captures SA Amateur at Humewood
21 February 2025 – Charl Barnard produced the best performance of his career and played his way into the Investec South African Open when he defeated Cameron Mukherjee of Great Britain 5/3 in an enthralling the 36-hole match play final in the South African Amateur Championship at Humewood Golf Club. WATCH: Celebrating 2025 SA Amateur…
Read MoreBarnard to battle Mukherjee for the SA Amateur title
20 February 2025 – South Africa’s number five amateur Charl Barnard rolled on into the final of the South African Amateur Championship on Thursday with a pair of tight victories in the quarter-finals and semi-finals on a windy day at Humewood Golf Club. Barnard dispatched France’s Louka Morin 1-up in their quarter-final to set up…
Read MoreGiant slayers topple big names at SA Amateur
19 February 2025 – There were some big-name casualties as the South African Amateur Championship whittled down to its last eight players on Wednesday, with 15-year-old East London school boy Arron Louw and Frenchman Louka Morin stealing the show at Humewood Golf Club. Louw – the younger sibling of reigning GolfRSA No.1 Kesha Louw –…
Read MoreFavourites bring it on day one at SA Amateur
18 February 2025 – The early tournament favourites lived up to their billing in the first round of knockout matches at the South African Amateur Championship, with GolfRSA No. 1 Astin Arthur, first-seed JP van der Watt and top international talents Gregor Tait, Kartik Singh, Emilio Meijer and Louka Morin through to the top 32…
Read MoreVictorious 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. WATCH: Celebrating Proudfoot Trophy champion JP van der Watt The home favourite fired an…
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 MoreTeen Weber claims historic Proudfoot Trophy victory
5 February 2024 – Fourteen-year-old Ben Weber made history as the youngest winner of the Proudfoot Trophy – the 36-hole stroke play qualifier for the South African Amateur Championship – since its inception in 1931 when he edged countryman Simon du Plooy and Netherlands’ Lars van der Vight by a stroke. WATCH: Weber’s historic Proudfoot…
Read MoreCouvra makes SA Amateur history at Mount Edgecombe
26 February 2023 – France’s Martin Couvra achieved an historic treble when the South African Amateur Championships wrapped up at Mount Edgecombe Country Club Estate on Friday. For a stretch of 234 holes, over nine days, on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, 19-year-old Couvra was simply unstoppable, winning the 72-hole South African Stroke Play Championship, the…
Read MoreVan Kan and Ullyett are SA Amateur champs
26 February 2023 – Kyra van Kan ditched the bridesmaid tag when she capped a memorable week at Mount Edgecombe Country Club Estate with a dominating victory in the final of South African Amateur Championships in February. It was third time’s the charm for the GolfRSA No 1 as she made up for her near…
Read MoreWhateley and Phipps victorious at Mount Edgecombe
21 February 2023 – Central Gauteng Golf Union’s Samantha Whateley went wire-to-wire to lift the South African Women’s Stroke Play Championship title, while teenager Charlotte Phipps celebrated a hugely popular Silver Division victory at Mount Edgecombe Country Club Estate on Tuesday. Rounds of 69 on the par-70 Woods Course and a level-par 72 and closing…
Read MoreWhateley, Van der Merwe set Mount Edgecombe pace
19 February 2023 – Samantha Whateley opened up a four-shot lead in the opening round of South African Women’s Stroke Play Championship, while fellow GolfRSA National Squad member Janko van der Merwe took a slender one-shot lead in the 36-hole qualifier of the South African Amateur Championship at Mount Edgecombe Country Club Estate on Sunday.…
Read MoreVan Kan looking for redemption in Mount Edgecombe
18 February 2023 – Maybe a change of venue for the 2023 edition of the South African Amateur Championships, taking place at Mount Edgecombe Country Club Estate from Sunday, will signal a change of luck for GolfRSA No 1 Kyra van Kan. The combined championship tees off with the men’s 36-hole qualifier and the SA…
Read MoreMemorable Proudfoot Trophy victory for Mckain
7 February 2022 – Reece Mckain completed a wire-to–wire win in the Proudfoot Trophy at Royal Johannesburg & Kensington’s East Course on Monday, leading the pack of 64 qualifiers into the match play stage of the 120th South African Amateur Championship. Playing on his home course, the 22-year-old BSI Golf member followed up his superb…
Read MoreMacnab and Maas a cut above in SA Amateurs
19 February 2021 – South Africa’s No 1-ranked Caitlyn Macnab became just the 12th woman to successfully defend her SA Amateur title since 1906, while 17-year-old Christiaan Maas continued his remarkable rise when he lifted the men’s title on Friday. Macnab won her second title in fine style with a convincing 11 & 9 victory…
Read MoreSwitched on Dyer and Streicher cruising in SA Amateur
17 February 2021 – Top seeds Jack Dyer and Megan Streicher looks to be the players to beat as the duo marched on to the quarter-finals of the South African Amateur Championships at Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club. England’s Dyer – with compatriot and first-round casualty Zach Chegwidden on the bag – saw off…
Read MoreGolfRSA poised for 2021 South African Swing
18 January 2021 – Excitement is building as South Africa’s top amateur talents gear up for the annual South African Swing, which tees off in February. “It is disappointing that, due to the circumstances surrounding the worldwide pandemic and the restrictions imposed by countries abroad on travel to South Africa, we have lost some international…
Read MoreNienaber making hay on UK mini tours
29 July 2020 – As the European Tour emerges from its Covid-19-enforced hibernation, former South African No 1-ranked amateur Wilco Nienaber has kept himself occupied with some eye-catching performances on the UK’s mini golf tours. <UPDATE> Nienaber seized his chance by claiming a fourth-place finish in the recent English Championship on the European Tour. The…
Read MoreDouble SA Amateur delight for South Africa’s top golfers
21 February 2020 – Not even a two-hour delay due to dangerous weather could halt the relentless charge of South Africa’s two top-ranked golfers – Caitlyn Macnab and Casey Jarvis – towards their place in golf history. With their wins in the Aon South African Amateur Championships, Macnab and Jarvis both achieved the rare SA…
Read MoreNew look, Royal venue for SA’s top amateur golf event
The South African Amateur Championship, considered the marquee events of the women’ and men’s amateur golfing calendar, is to undergo a groundbreaking revamp that will see the men’s and women’s championships being played simultaneously in mid February 2020. The new-look SA Amateur Championship Week will be played at Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club. This…
Read MoreSA Amateur set for all South African showdown
CAPE TOWN, 21 February 2019 – Teenagers Wilco Nienaber from Free State and Southern Cape’s Jordan Duminy will face each other in an all-South African 36-hole final for the 112th South African Amateur Championship title at King David Mowbray Golf Club on Friday. Both youngsters produced some fabulous shot-making to come up trumps in the three-…
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