A significantly slimmer Graeme Watson may be fighting a knee injury and a scrappy game, but the former SA number one still produced the kind of round that landed him a share of the lead with Steve Williams at the halfway mark of the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
Former champion Neil Homann claimed a share of the three-way tie atop a tightly packed leaderboard in the first round of the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Ruimsig Country Club on Tuesday.
The 2012 champion from Wanderers recovered well from a bumpy start to reel in three birdies after the turn and set the early target at two-under-par 70.
Greg Sheard will launch his title defence in the South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play at Ruimsig Country Club on Tuesday, but high stakes and a clutch of in-form champions has increased the pressure on the defending champion.
Mpumalanga teenager Thriston Lawrence followed Open champions Ernie Els and Bobby Locke into the winner’s circle at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club when he became the first South African to lift the Lytham Trophy in the 50th edition of the prestigious amateur championship on Sunday.
South Africa put an exclamation mark on a successful title defence at the All-Africa Junior Golf Championship in Lusaka to claim the country’s 16th consecutive victory in the prestigious team event on Thursday.
The four-man junior squad stretched an almost unassailable 21 shot lead after three rounds at Chainama Hills Golf Club to a 35-stroke victory over Zimbabwe on a winning score of 873.
The South African juniors shifted gears in the third round of the All-Africa Junior Golf Championship in Lusaka and opened up a 21 shot lead on Zimbabwe on Wednesday.
The defending champions combined for a two-under-par 214 at the Chainama Hills Golf Club and top the standings at nine-over-par 657
Mpumalanga’s Monja Richards claimed her first provincial victory of the season with a wire-to-wire victory at the Free State & Northern Cape Championship title at Oppenheimer Golf Club on Sunday.
Overnight leaders South Africa kept their title defence at the All-Africa Junior Golf Challenge on track, but gusting winds and low early morning temperatures caught the foursome off guard on Tuesday.
The defending champions combined for a second round 223 to retain their lead and top the log at 443.