The Western Province and Gauteng North teams kept a respectful distance between them during today’s South African Inter-Provincial practice session, but you could still cut the tension at Bloemfontein Golf Club with a knife.
Defending champions Western Province are hunting a seventeenth South African Inter-Provincial title when the South African Golf Association’s premier team competition tees off at Bloemfontein Golf Club from September 19-23.
Harry Casey (pictured here with the Duke) won the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy when he defeated Harang Lee, the European Young Masters Girls’ champion, at a first extra hole where he was a whisker away from making a birdie. His friends had not envied him such a play-off situation and the player himself admitted that it had not been the easiest.
South Africa’s Haydn Porteous finished in third place.
The South African girls’ champion golfer, 14-year old Bianca Theron departed on Saturday for Liverpool in England having been invited to participate in the 54-hole Duke of York Young Champions Trophy being played at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club from 13 to 15 September.
Gauteng North A (Daisies) will be defending the Pick n Pay SA Women’s Inter-Provincial Championship title they have won for the past four years – in 2007 (Clovelly), 2008 (Umhlali), 2009 (Paarl) and 2010 (Irene) when the event is played at George Golf Club from 18 to 23 September 2011.
Former Southern Cape Number One Monique Smit stamped her mark in the province once again when she won the Southern Cape Championships in a play-off against Kim Williams on Sunday on a soaked Knysna golf course.
A dozen of South Africa’s top amateur golfers will be flying the South African flag at three international golf events this October and November.
The country’s top four ranked players – Brandon Stone, Haydn Porteous, Ruan De Smidt and Jared Harvey – will represent South Africa at The Four Nations Cup and Shirley Open in New Zealand while Graham van der Merwe, CJ du Plessis, Riekus Nortje and Daniel Hammond will do duty here at home in the African Amateur Golf Teams Championships (AAGTC).
Dylan Frittelli’s got eliminated from the US Amateur in the round of 32 players when he came up against Peter Uihlein. Frittellli who played solid golf in the second round of the qualifying stroke play, to record a 66, and in the first round of the match play, didnt produce his best golf when he came up against the defending US Amateur Champion.