When Jamie Bower joined his team mates from the English Golf Union Elite Squad on a two-month trip to South Africa in early January, the Yorkshire player had no idea that his off-season training would pay off such handsome dividends.
Local rising star Alex van Wyk grabbed a share of the 36-hole lead in the Southern Cape Open with former SA Stroke Play champion Jason Smith on Friday. Smith set the clubhouse target at seven under with rounds of 71 and 66 at Mossel Bay Golf Club, but the Gauteng North amateur was forced to share pole position when the Fancourt junior opened with a 69 and added a 68 in round two.
Scotland claimed a comprehensive victory in the seventh International Triangular against the South African Golf Association’s Junior Team and the South African Golf Development Board at The Wanderers Golf Club on Tuesday.
South Africa’s Albert Venter swept to a five stroke victory in the inaugural African Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Saturday thanks in no small part to two superb 65s at the Leopard Creek Golf Estate.
Birthday boy Jack McDonald and compatriots Connor Syme and Grant Forrest combined for a superb final round 207 to win the inaugural Team Competition in the African Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Friday.
South Africa’s Albert Venter matched his opening 65 in the African Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Friday, but this time the Gauteng North golfer fired a flawless seven under at Leopard Creek Country Club to pull away from a large group of international challengers.
Albert Venter clung to his overnight lead, but the Gauteng North golfer shares centre stage in the inaugural African Amateur Stroke Play Championship with fellow South Africans Kyle McClatchie and Jason Rossiter, Jamie Savage from Scotland and England’s Jamie Bower, while the RSA Juniors took control in the Team Competition at Leopard Creek Golf Estate on Thursday.
Albert Venter from Gauteng North fired a seven-under-par 65 to take the first round lead in the inaugural African Amateur Stroke Play Championship, while England set the tone in the Team Competition at Leopard Creek Country Club in Mpumalanga on Wednesday.