Bruce Younge, the South African Golf Association’s (SAGA) Executive Director, has been invited by the R & A to officiate at the 137th Open Championship which starts on Thursday, 17th July 2008, at Royal Birkdale, just outside the town of Southport in Lancashire on the west coast of England.
The South African Golf Association (SAGA) announced the names of eight players for the President’s Team to play in the inaugural SADC Armature Open Championship. This amateur golf event will be played at the Lusaka Golf Club, Zambia, from 2nd to 3rd August 2008.
“The team represents some of our talented young players who will be exposed to international competition for the first time,” said Neale Kunhardt, President of the SAGA who will also be the team’s manager.
South African sports enthusiast, Adolphe Botha, represented our country in Iceland, winning this year’s Arctic Open Golf Championship, scoring a total of 79 points over two days.
The first ever South African Golf Association Squad training sessions were held this week when nineteen of South Africa’s leading amateurs congregated at the World of Golf in Woodmead, Johannesburg on Monday for three days of golf analysis.
Nineteen of South Africa’s leading amateur golfers, selected by the South African Golf Association (SAGA), assemble at the World of Golf, in Johannesburg, on Monday (30th June), for three days, for their first ever squad session.
Four of South Africa’s top junior golfers went to Japan to play in the Toyota Junior World Cup of Golf, as it is now known, with high expectations. However the disappointing form shown in the first three rounds prevailed again in today’s final round. With the best three scores counting, the South African team recorded a final round score of 214, one over par, and a 72 hole total of 858, six over par. They finished thirty four shots off the pace in 12th position.
The South African Junior amateur team were down to three men after Andre De Decker was disqualified in the third round of the Toyota World Junior Team Championships, being played at Chuyko Golf Club over the Ishino course outside the town of Nagoya in Japan.
A slightly better performance by the South African junior amateur golf team in the second round of the Toyota World Junior Team Championships moves them up one place, to tenth overall on the team leaderboard.