South Africa’s first golf Olympian Kyle McClatchie claimed an impressive joint runner-up finish in the Big Easy Kempton Park, while Freddie Tait Cup winner Cameron Moralee from Gauteng also bagged a top 10 finish at Kempton Park Golf Club on Tuesday.
Ebotse’s Jayden Schaper produced two moments of brilliance on the 18th hole to savour a play-off victory in the Nomads National Order of Merit at Modderfontein Golf Club on Tuesday. The 15-year-old Ekurhuleni golfer defeated Cole Stevens and Dylan Mostert with par at the first play-off hole to triumph.
As the excitement builds for South Africa’s debut at the Olympics and the start of the 145th Open Championship at Royal Troon is eagerly anticipated, Garrick Higgo from Boland made a little history of his own when he punched his ticket to the US Amateur Championship on Monday.
South Africa’s top ranked Woo-Ju Son from Gauteng and recent Dimension Data Junior Open champion Christo Lamprecht from Southern Cape are rubbing shoulders with the cream of junior golf in the Junior Championship in Scotland.
Reigning Nomads SA Boys U-15 champion Jayden Schaper fired an opening five-under-par 67 to lay down a marker for his second national junior victory this season in the Nomads National Order of Merit at Modderfontein Golf Club on Monday.
With a major Grade 12 Maths exam still to negotiate later this week, Kaleigh Telfer is pleased the numbers on her scorecard are falling in her favour at the moment as she won her second round match in the Sanlam South African Women’s Amateur at the Ebotse Links on Monday.
David Meyers crusied to a seven-shot victory in the Limpopo Open on Sunday. The Dainfern golfer fired rounds of 70, 69 and 67 at Koro Creek Golf Club to triumph on 10-under-par 206.
The experience gained from playing college golf in the United States was clear to see as Michaela Fletcher managed her game and a tender back to win Sunday’s 36-hole stroke play seeding round for this week’s Sanlam South African Women’s Amateur at the Ebotse Links.