Boland junior Garrick Higgo made a strong case for a third victory this season, Ross Sinclair kept his title defence on track and Aneurin Gounden rose to ascendancy again at the Nomads SA Boys U-19 Match Play Championship at Bloemfontein Golf Club on Thursday.
He needed an extra hole to get the job done, but Reece Haickney dispatched Karabo Mokoena at the 19th hole to make the top 16 in the Nomads SA Boys U-19 Match Play Championship on Thursday.
The Randpark junior could be in for another tough tussle, though, as he faces Garrick Higgo from Boland at Bloemfontein Golf Club this afternoon.
Lanky Liam van Deventer fired a 68 to open up a tidy lead in the first round of the SA U-15 Challenge at Gowrie Farm Golf Estate near Mooiriver in KwaZulu-Natal.
Boland golfer Garrick Higgo will seek to continue his winning form when he leads a strong field that will tee it up in Monday’s Glacier Junior Series tournament at Royal Cape Golf Club.
The tournament, played in recognition of the career of South African women’s golf legend Sally Little, is the fourth on this year’s Glacier Junior Series and the second in the Western Cape.
An eagle finish in the third round was the kicker that helped Western Province junior Deon Germishuys claim the Nomads SA Boys U-19 Stroke Play Championship title in Bloemfontein on Wednesday.
The Strand golfer posted rounds of 70, 71, 69 and 70 at Bloemfontein Golf Club to edge out reigning Nomads SA Boys U-19 Match Play champion Ross Sinclair by one stroke with a winning total of eight-under-par 280.
Southern Cape’s Franklin Manchest fired three birdies around the turn Bloemfontein Golf Club to surge into the second round lead at the Nomads SA Boys U-19 Stroke Play Championship on Tuesday.
The George golfer fired a five under 67 to move to seven-under-par 137. Manchest leads by one from Ross Sinclair from Gauteng North and will start the third round three strokes clear of first round pacesetter Martin Vorster.
Tshwane juniors Danielle du Toit and Keegan Mclachlan celebrated a double South African victory in the 2016 World Amateur Golf Audi Reunion on Reunion Island on Monday.
Mclachlan edged out fellow Gauteng North amateurs Albert Venter and Albert van der Knaap to lift the Mens Championship title while Du Toit claimed a runaway victory in the Ladies Championship in a wire-to-wire performance at the magnificent Golf Du Bassin Blue.
Youthful exuberance trumped experience as Southern Cape junior Martin Vorster outplayed some of South Africa’s top ranked juniors to take the first round lead in the Nomads SA Boys U-19 Stroke Play Championship at Bloemfontein Golf Club on Monday.