EAST LONDON, 28 February 2010 – Allan Versfeld’s early 67 at East London Golf Club held up for the first round lead in the Glacier SA Amateur Championship qualifier, but Donavan Pearce and Ryan Hyde were nipping at his heels at the end of the day.
EAST LONDON, 28 February 2010 – Teenager Allan Versfeld made a strong run for the Glacier SA Amateur Championship title with a flawless 67 to set the early target in the first round of the 36-hole Stroke Play qualifier at East London Golf Club today.
EAST LONDON, 27 February 2010 – With the mass exodus of the country’s top amateurs to the paid ranks over the last two years, East London Golf Club offers a new wave of golfers a great opportunity to stake a claim for the country’s most prestigious amateur honour at the Glacier SA Amateur Championship from February 28 to March 5, 2010.
EAST LONDON, 25 February 2010 – South Africa’s 2010 Stroke Play winner Dean O’Riley hopes to add his name to an exclusive list of players when he tees it up at Glacier SA Amateur Championship at East London Golf Club next week.
Twenty year old Dean O’Riley started the final round of the 72 hole South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship, played at Pearl Valley Golf Estates, near Paarl, with a seven stroke lead. By the time the leading group concluded hole 7, in the final round, the Ekurhuleni amateur had relinquished his lead to Graham van der Merwe, having dropped six shots.
Playing steady golf all day, overnight leader Dean O’Riley was one of only four players who managed to break 70 in the third round of the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship. He extended his lead over the rest of the field to seven shots, finishing with a 54 hole total of 206, ten under par.
South Africa’s top ranked amateur, according to the latest South African Golf Association (SAGA) Player Rankings, Dean O’Riley, emerged the leader of the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at the halfway stage.
Sixteen year old Brandon Stone, the son of professional Kevin, caddied for his father in the South African Open Championship, played at the end of last year, also at Pearl Valley Golf Estates, near Paarl. Walking the course and observing his father’s progress paid off after he recorded the lowest morning round, a 68, four under par, of the second round of the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship.