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Battle lines are drawn for 2012 SA IPT

There’s only one place to be next week to catch the crème de la crème of South African amateur golf, and that is the 52nd South African Inter-Provincial Championship in Nelson Mandela Bay. The prestigious annual team championship tees off at the Port Elizabeth Golf Club from 17-21 September.

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Stone and Lombard come up short at US Amateur

Two of South Africa’s leading amateur golfers, Brandon Stone and Zander Lombard, made in their debut at the US Amateur Championship at Cherry Hills Country Club in Colorado on Monday, but both players failed to advance to the match play portion after two days of stroke play qualifying.

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SA beat Scots in own back yard

South Africa’s top amateurs took the sting out of a home defeat earlier this year by beating their Scottish rivals by one point to win the Friendship Quaich at the prestigious Prestwick Golf Club on Thursday. The Scots held a one point edge at 5-4 going into the second round, but the South Africans fought vehemently to level the scores in the morning foursomes. With the two-day contest down to the wire, Shaun Smith managed to halve his match with Paul Shields to hand the home side a crucial half point for a 9½ – 8½ victory.

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Solid start from SA squad in Scottish Test

The six-man South African team put in a solid first round showing against their opposite numbers from the Scottish Golf Union’s (SGU) National Men’s Squad at Prestwick Golf Club on Wednesday. The South Africans went into lunch trailing by one after halving two games and losing one in the foursomes, but CJ du Plessis, Drikus Bruyns and Shaun Smith stepped up in the Singles to ensure that the margin stayed the same going into the final round.

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Porteous claims top 20 at St Andrews Links Trophy

South Africa’s reigning SA Amateur Stroke Play champion Haydn Porteous claimed a top 20 finish at the St Andrews Links Trophy a week after he tied for second at the Carrick Neill Scottish Stroke Play Championship at Kilmarnock in Barassie. The 17-year-old Modderfontein golfer got within 11 shots of the overall winner, Daan Huizing of the Netherlands, at the halfway mark, but the last two rounds saw Porteous lose his grip on the top 10 and slide to a share of 17th on Sunday.

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