Posts Tagged ‘The Amateur Championship’
Newman 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 MoreGolfRSA announces power-packed 2023 Eisenhower Team
14 July 2023 – GolfRSA is delighted to announce the three amateurs who will represent South Africa in the 2023 World Amateur Team Championships in Abu Dhabi in October. The South African team will feature reigning Amateur champion Christo Lamprecht, 2022 English Men’s Stroke Play champion Christiaan Maas and GolfRSA No 1 Altin van der…
Read MoreSA’s Lamprecht claims The Amateur Championship
25 June 2023 – Christo Lamprecht continued South Africa’s proud history in The Amateur Championship when he became the fourth winner – and third GolfRSA National Squad champion in the last six years – to lift one of the most prestigious trophies in the amateur game. The World No 6 defeated Ronan Kleu from Switzerland…
Read MoreVan Wyk takes Amateur Qualifier honours
20 June 2023 – George amateur Ben van Wyk continued the country’s proud tradition in the prestigious Amateur Championship when he became the third South African in the last six years to win the 36-hole Stroke Play Qualifier in England on Tuesday. Following in the footsteps of GolfRSA National Squad graduates Wilco Nienaber (2018) and…
Read MoreSA’s Broomhead takes Amateur Qualifier honours
14 June 2022 – South Africa’s Jono Broomhead claimed a second victory for the GolfRSA National Squad on their UK when he emerged as leading qualifier at The 127th Amateur Championship. Just two weeks after former SA Amateur champion lifted the Brabazon Trophy at Saunton Golf Club, the reigning South African Stroke Play champion produced…
Read MoreGolfRSA talent primed for Amateur Championship assault
The 127th Amateur Championship tees off today, with a total of 10 South Africans gunning for a chance to join Bobby Cole (1966) and Jovan Rebula (2018) as South African winners of the world’s most prestigious amateur golfing event. The first goal for the 288-strong field is to make it through to the match play…
Read MorePremlall leads South African charge in Ireland
DUBLIN, Ireland (18 June 2019) – Edenvale teenager Yurav Premlall celebrated his 16th birthday with a share of fifth in the first round of the stroke play qualifying in the 124th Amateur Championship in Ireland on Monday. A total of 288 players from 37 countries started the 36-hole qualifier at the Portmarnock and The Island…
Read MoreRebula seals GolfRSA double in The Amateur
23 June 2018 – Jovan Rebula became the first South African in more than half a century to break the curse of the Royals and win the 123rd Amateur Championship. Rebula sealed the double for GolfRSA when he defeated Irishman Robin Dawson in the 36-hole final at Royal Aberdeen on Saturday, just four days after…
Read MoreRebula to face Irish Open champion in Amateur final
22 June 2018 – South Africa’s Jovan Rebula routed two Englishmen on Friday to set a date with reigning Flogas Irish Amateur champion Robin Dawson in the final of the 123rd Amateur Championship at Royal Aberdeen tomorrow. The 20-year-old George golfer is the sixth South African to reach the last round. Bobby Cole (1966), David…
Read MoreSA’s Rebula the last man standing at The Amateur
22 June 2018 – George golfer Jovan Rebula will be the lone South African starter in the quarter-finals of the 123rd Amateur Championship today after Wilco Nienaber and Luca Filippi were eliminated in round four. Rebula defeated fellow GolfRSA National Squad player Malcolm Mitchell 1-up in the third round to progress to the top 16…
Read MoreJoy and heartbreak for GolfRSA six in Scotland
21 June 2018 – There was jubilation in the GolfRSA National Squad camp after five of the six starters made the top 32 in the 123rd Amateur Championship on Wednesday, but the excitement was crushed as soon as the third round draw was published. South Africa’s reigning number one Wilco Nienaber continued his dominance when…
Read MoreNienaber medals as SA fields strong challenge in Scotland
20 June 2018 – Bobby Cole is the one and only South African winner in the 123-year history of the Amateur Championship, but South Africa’s leading amateur Wilco Nienaber wrote his own bit of history when he won the stroke play qualifier in Scotland on Tuesday. The 18-year-old GolfRSA National Squad player became the first…
Read MoreSA’s Nienaber leads The Amateur in Scotland
18 June 2018 – South Africa’s top ranked amateur Wilco Nienaber was in ascendancy again as the highly anticipated 123rd Amateur Championship got underway at Royal Aberdeen and Murcar Links on Monday. A total of 288 amateurs from 38 countries started the first round of the stroke play qualifier in the East of Scotland and…
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