Martin Vorster, Christo Lamprecht and Marcus Smal has given the home crowd a reason to cheer after taking the first round lead in the Louis Oosthuizen SA Junior Club Team Championship on Monday.
The trio – all members of the 2010 Open champions’ Louis 57 Junior Golf Academy – combined for an opening total of 221 at Mossel Bay Golf Club.
This week will launch some significant activity in the ranks of world amateur golf with the 16th edition of the invitation-only Duke of York Young Champions in England and the start of the prestigious World Amateur Teams Championships (WATC) for both men and women, being held back to back near Cancun in Mexico this September.
Gauteng’s Kajal Mistry will take a one shot lead into today’s final round of the Ekurhuleni Championship with local favourite Casandra Hall in hot pursuit at ERMP Golf Club.
South Africa’s top ranked Senior and Mid-Amateur golfers are in for an exciting experience when they go head-to-head with the cream of Indian senior and mid-amateur golf this December.
Lumien Orton proved that form is temporary but class is permanent as the former top ranked amateur marched to a second trophy finish in eight weeks, courtesy of a one-shot victory at the Northern Cape Championship in Kimberly on Monday. Just under two months since she defeated Symone Henriques on her way to claiming the Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Championship title, Orton opened with a 72.
Southern Cape pair Christo Lamprecht and Martin Vorster, Free State junior Wilco Nienaber and Ekurhuleni’s Jayden Schaper topped off an impressive week at the 10th Reply Italian International Championship with four top 10 finishes in Italy on Thursday.
Southern Cape junior Martin Vorster will lead the four-strong South African challenge when the second of the Reply Italian International Under-16 Championship gets underway in Italy today.
Vorster, Christo Lamprecht, Jayden Schaper and Wilco Nienaber were among 144 juniors from a record 20 countries worldwide that lined up in the 10th edition of this prestigious international championship at Golf Club Biella le Betulle.
Ekurhuleni amateur Kyle McClatchie added to his trophy haul this season after denying local favourite Matt Saulez a home victory in the KwaZulu-Natal Championship the past weekend.