Basil Naidoo hung on to his overnight lead at the Gary Player Country Club, but the KwaZulu-Natal player expects to come under major pressure in the final round of the Players Championship at Sun City on Sunday.
Ugo Coussaud claimed the South African Stroke Play Championship title on Friday, but the first French champion in the history of the prestigious event had to show some real French flair at the final hole to triumph on a winning score of 15-under-par 273at Port Elizabeth Golf Club.
KwaZulu-Natal’s Basil Naidoo said he felt confident about his game ahead of the prestigious Player’s Championship and not surprisingly, the Greater Durban golfer leads the first round at the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City on Friday.
Top ranked juniors Ivanna Samu and Eleonora Galletti represented South Africa in the prestigious Astor Trophy and the Australian Women’s Amateur in January.
WGSA asked the girls to share some of their thoughts on their selection, their expectations, the experience and their favourite moments.
Frenchman Romain Langasque fired a superb course record eight-under-par 64, a putting lesson from 2011 Open champion Darren Clarke’s coach helped Boland amateur Armand Scholtz to a sizzling 66 and French ace Ugo Coussaud kept in touch with a 68, but none of it enough to catch South Africa’s Rupert Kaminski in the third round in the South African Stroke Play Championship at Port Elizabeth Golf Club on Thursday.
South Africa’s top ranked senior Mellette Hendrikse will have a huge target on his back when the first round of the Player’s Championship tees off at the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City on Friday.
The International Golf Federation announced today that Mr Christiaan Bezuidenhout has been found to have committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the 2014 International Golf Federation Anti-Doping Policy (presence of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in a Player’s Sample).
Ewen Ferguson stretched his overnight lead to two shots, but South Africans Luke Trocado and Rupert Kaminsky powered their way past the Scotsman to share the second round lead in theSouth African Stroke Play Championship at Port Elizabeth Golf Club on Wednesday.