Western Province defeated Southern Cape to edge into third place as Gauteng North strengthened their position at the top of the A-Section log in Wednesday’s third round of the South African U23 Inter-Provincial at Nelspruit Golf Club.
Province and Southern Cape were squared at 2-all after the foursomes, but halves from AB Price and Robert Bougas and victories Marlon Swarts, Josh de Klerk, Ian Snyman and Alex Jordon handed Province a 7-5 victory.
Nobuhle Dlamini
Nobuhle Dlamini successfully defended her Sanlam South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play title with a crushing 12-stroke victory at Pretoria Country Club.
A second successive victory on day two of the South African U23 Inter-Provincial put Gauteng North in pole position and a one point clear over their nearest challengers, Ekurhuleni, at Nelspruit Golf Club.
The Gauteng North side defeated the Western Province 8.5 – 3.5 in round one and followed their success with a 6.5 – 5.5 victory over Southern Cape on Tuesday
Nobuhle Dlamini in Round 2 of the Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship)
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Ekurhuleni caused the first major upset at this year’s South African U23 Inter-Provincial when they defeated defending champions Central Gauteng in the first round played at Nelspruit Golf Club on Monday. Although the two teams were level at 2-all after the foursomes, the Ekurhuleni side took control in the singles, winning five of the eight games to beat their opponents 7-5.
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Eleonora Galletti
The optimism that 15-year-old Eleonora Galletti felt standing on the first tee at Pretoria Country Club on a sunbathed Sunday morning was rewarded when she took the first round lead in the Sanlam South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
South Africa’s Haydn Porteous delivered another commanding performance in George to claim his fifth stroke play title this season at the Cape Province Open on Sunday. The country’s number one ranked amateur was in blistering form, carding rounds of 65-70-71-67 at George Golf Club and Kingswood Country Club for a winning total of 15-under-par 273.
Porteous finished four shots clear of Ekurhuleni’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout and six ahead of Woodhill golfer Zander Lombard in third. Local golfer Nicholas Meyer produced a final round 69 to finish in fourth on five under 283, one stroke ahead of Country Club Johannesburg’s Louis Taylor and fellow George Golf Club players, Jovan Rebula and Breyten Meyer.