The South African Golf Association Junior side and Gauteng North are deadlocked at the top of the standings at the Challenge Cup Teams Tournament after second round action wrapped up at Cullinan Golf Club on Tuesday.
North West proclaimed their intention with a dominating performance in the opening round of the SA Country Districts Tournament in the Eastern Cape, but the defending champions came unstuck against a spirited Boland challenge on day two at the Fish River Sun Country Club.
The South African Golf Association Junior side mowed down the Presidents Team to pull into pole position alongside Central Gauteng in the first round of the Challenge Cup Teams Tournament on Monday.
A birdie at the 10th and a Seve Ballesteros-style bunker shot at the 12th boosted Graeme Watson’s flagging confidence and carried the Ebotse golfer to victory at the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Friday.
Watson carded rounds of 70, 71, 70 and 73 at Ruimsig Country Club to claim a four shot victory over Modderfontein’s Steve Williams on a winning score of four-under-par 284.
Just a few days after he lifted the Royal Lytham Trophy in England, reigning Sanlam SA Amateur champion Thriston Lawrence is in pursuit of Irishman Gary McDermott at the Irish Amateur Open in Dublin.
Lawrence became the first South African to win the prestigious Royal Lytham Trophy on Sunday, and now hopes to emulate Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen, who won the championship in 2002.
Graeme Watson gave himself the ideal opportunity to notch victory at the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship as he snatched the outright lead in the third round at Ruimsig Country Club on Thursday.
A significantly slimmer Graeme Watson may be fighting a knee injury and a scrappy game, but the former SA number one still produced the kind of round that landed him a share of the lead with Steve Williams at the halfway mark of the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
Former champion Neil Homann claimed a share of the three-way tie atop a tightly packed leaderboard in the first round of the Volvo South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Ruimsig Country Club on Tuesday.
The 2012 champion from Wanderers recovered well from a bumpy start to reel in three birdies after the turn and set the early target at two-under-par 70.