If the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR) are anything to go by, the Protea team of Derik Ferreira (ranked 19), Jacques Blaauw (27), Adrian Ford (29) and Ryan Clarke (313) will start as the favourites to win the fourth annual amateur golf Test Match against France which starts tomorrow.
Free State and Northern Cape won the 2008 Inter-Provincial A-Section at Harrismith this year and Boland won the B Section.
Four of South Africa’s amateur golfers take on the 72 hole Welsh Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship which starts at Conwy Golf Club, in a town in North Wales of the same name, on Friday. The four players are Jacques Blaauw, Derik Ferreira, Lyle Rowe and Trevor Muggeridge.
Two weeks ago the R&A sent the Chairman of the R&A Rules Committee, a member of their Rules Committee, and their Assistant Director of Rules to South Africa to run “R&A Rule Schools” in Benoni and Cape Town.
Both venues were fantastic and a combined delegation of 150 people attended. Much was learnt by all over the two day duration of each Rules School but most people’s main focus was the Rules Exam which was held on the second morning. These Results are available from the South African Golf Association offices as of this morning.
SAGA Office Tel. 011 783 5474.
Click here for the Steenberg Delegates Photo
Click here for the Benoni Delegates Photo
Jacques Blaauw, the current SA Stroke Play and Glacier SA Amateur Champion, finished 18th, with a 54 hole total of 211, five under par, in the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship (Brabazon Trophy) which concluded yesterday. Blaauw, of Paarl Golf Club, had rounds of 70, 71 and 70.
Dylan Frittelli has withdrawn from the Protea Team to play France and has been replaced by Adrian Ford, the South African Golf Association (SAGA) announced.
The Inaugural SA Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship will take place next week at De Zalze. The event will be played over 72 holes with 18 holes on Wednesday and Thursday and 36 holes on Friday.
Draw Round 1
Draw Round 2
The annual Country Districts and Challenge Inter-Provincial Tournaments (IPTs) started in cool weather this morning and promise to offer fun and competitive weeks for players from all around the country.
