Multiple European Tour winner Brandon Stone says next week’s Oxigen Prince’s Grant National Amateur Invitational tournament always awakened in him the same feeling Jordan Spieth must have every time he steps onto Augusta National Golf Club during the Masters.
Western Province beat Central Gauteng by the narrowest of margins in 2014 and 2015, but the Lions turned the tables on Province last year to celebrate their 12th victory since 2002 in the South African Senior Amateur Inter-Provincial.
The B-Division battle for promotion is perched on a knife’s edge as just half a games point separate Boland and Eastern Province ahead of the final round of the South African Senior Inter-Provincial in Knysna.
Nicholaus Frade from Gauteng North finally got the putter going and it paid off with a provincial breakthrough in the Western Province Amateur on Wednesday.
Central Gauteng are within a games point of A-Division log leaders Southern Cape at the midway point of the 29th SA Senior Amateur Inter-Provincial Championship after a powerful assault in Wednesday’s second round in Knysna.
Boland and Eastern Province will start the third round in the battle for promotion at the 29th SA Senior Amateur Inter-Provincial Championship in Knysna locked at the top of the standings on Thursday.
Just four days after Clayton Mansfield lifted the Boland Amateur Stroke Play title, fellow Durban Country Club golfer Matt Saulez will attempt to make it two in a row for KwaZulu-Natal when he starts the final two rounds of the Western Province Amateur Stroke Play Qualifier in pole position at Westlake Golf Club.
Central Gauteng made a dream start to their title defence in the 29th SA Senior Amateur Inter-Provincial and Southern Cape showed they mean business in the first round matches at the Simola Golf and Country Estate near Knysna on Tuesday.