Reigning Nomads SA Boys and SA Girls champions, Zander Gous and Ji Sun Kang, survived a very cold and windy day at Royal St George’s in Sandwich and were delighted to finish within striking distance of the first round leader at the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy in England on Tuesday.
Leading amateurs Zander Lombard, Gerlou Roux, Callum Mowat and NJ Arnoldi have been tasked to keep South Africa’s unbeaten record alive in the 2013 African Amateur Golf Teams Championship (AAGTC) from 18-25 October in Swaziland.
The local quartet will be gunning for South Africa’s seventh consecutive victory in the biennial tournament at the Royal Swazi Sun Country Club, site of the inaugural championship in 2001.
Reigning Nomads South Africa’s SA Boys and SA Girls champions, Zander Gous and Ji Sun Kang, will join the hunt for glory in the 13th edition of the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy at the Royal St. George Golf Club in Sandwich, England on Tuesday.
Entry into this exclusive 54-hole stroke play event is by invitation only, with spots reserved only for the current holders of Under-18 National Championships or players who have won some major golfing event in the preceding year.
Eight of South Africa’s top amateurs claimed a clean sweep in the Mens and Womens competitions at in the University of St Andrews 600thAnniversary Invitational in Scotland this weekend.
Nobuhle Dlamini, Kim Williams, Lara Weinstein and Emma-Jo du Bruyn representing the University of Pretoria’s HPC Womens Team took the overall lead in the second round and successfully held on to win the Womens Competition, while the HPC Mens side claimed a wire-to-wire victory in the invitation-only quadrangle tournament against St Andrews University, the Scottish Golf Union (SGU) and the Scandinavian School of Golf.
Eight of South Africa’s top amateurs claimed a clean sweep in the Mens and Womens competitions at in the University of St Andrews 600thAnniversary Invitational in Scotland this weekend.
The University of Pretoria’s HPC Mens side claimed a wire-to-wire victory in the invitation-only quadrangle tournament against St Andrews University, the Scottish Golf Union (SGU) and the Scandinavian School of Golf, while the HPC Womens’ team successfully held on win the Womens Competition.
The eight teams competing in the University of St Andrews 600th Anniversary Invitational in Scotland were greeted by a brutal North Sea wind on the second day of the invitation-only quadrangle tournament, but the South African had the best handle on the conditions at the Craighead course on Friday to edge ahead at the halfway point.
The HPC Womens team produced a mixed bag of results in the first round of the University of St Andrews 600thAnniversary Invitational, while Zander Lombard and Werner van Niekerk helped the HPC Mens Team to a seven shot lead in Scotland on Thursday.
The HPC Womens Team are competing against teams from the University of St Andrews, the Scottish Golf Union and the Scandinavian School of Golf in Sweden in an exclusive 72-hole quadrangle tournament in St Andrews, to commemorate the University’s 600th anniversary.
Zander Lombard and Werner van Niekerk were the only two players to dip into red figures in the first round of the University of St Andrews 600thAnniversary Invitational in Scotland on Thursday.
The University of Pretoria’s HPC Mens Team will take a seven shot lead over Sweden in the commemorative, invitation-only quadrangle tournament, celebrating the University’s 600th anniversary.