The South African Golf Association (SAGA) has announced adjustments to the national amateur ranking system that should see players rewarded for consistency rather than frequency of play.
The tweaks to the ranking system will come into effect from 1 January 2016 and will bring South Africa’s amateur ranking system closer to the World Amateur Golf Ranking system.
The South African Golf Association (SAGA) has ditched its paperwork and moved the entry system for the Sanlam South African Amateur Match Play Championship and South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship exclusively online.
Two of the South African Golf Association’s former number one ranked amateurs are dominating in the Australian PGA Championship on the Gold Coast!
It is not uncommon to see a football field in most rural areas around South Africa. But it is uncommon to see a football field being used by the local children to practice golf on. From the football field at the Riverside Farm near Malelane to the world-class practice facility that has been built at Leopard Creek, the young golfers of the South African Golf Development Board’s (SAGDB) Mpumalanga chapter are immersing themselves in their passion for the game.
Johann Rupert has been awarded Honorary Membership of the PGA of South Africa, becoming the first amateur golfer in the 90-year history of the PGA of South Africa to receive this award.
Top ranked South African pair Teaghan Gauche and Tristen Strydom were both eliminated in the 120th Argentine Amateur Championship in Argentina on Thursday.
Modderfontein mid-amateur Steven Williams upstaged some of the country’s leading senior professionals to lift the prestigious South African Senior Open title at Blue Valley Golf Estate on Wednesday.
Woodhill amateur Philip Kruse boxed an eagle putt at the final hole at Maccauvlei Country Club to celebrate a long-awaited return to the winner’s circle in the Harry Oppenheimer Trophy on Thursday. The 19-year-old Gauteng North golfer collected the Vaal Amateur Trophy as the leading amateur through 36-holes and joined a prestigious list of past winners with a five stroke victory on 16-under-par 272.