Walking is something most of us take for granted. It is as simple as breathing; we don’t think about it, we just do it. But not a day passes that 16-year-old Citrusdal golfer Ignation Douries doesn’t pause to marvel at the biological wonder his legs perform every day.
Patience and steely resolve helped Gerlou Roux maintain his overnight lead at the halfway stage of the South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Wednesday. The Western Province golfer stretched a three stroke lead to five shots and tops the leaderboard at nine-under-par 207.
Tristen Strydom further cemented his position as country’s number one ranked amateur when he seized his second victory in as many weeks in the Boland Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Wednesday.
Gerlou Roux threw down the gauntlet with an impressive five-under-par 65 in the first round of the South African Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Tuesday.
Unheralded Andre Nel capped his giant-killing run with victory in the Western Province Amateur Championship at Rondebosch Golf Club on Saturday.
The 19-year-old KeNako Academy student defeated South Africa’s number two ranked Teaghan Gauche with an impressive 3 & 2 victory.
Gauteng North’s Teaghan Gauche and Andre Nel from Southern Cape will go head-to-head in the 36-hole final round of the Western Province Amateur at Rondebosch Golf Club on Saturday.
SA number one Tristen Strydom and Western Province Amateur defending champion Gerlou Roux got their marching orders, but the country’s number two ranked Teaghan Gauche held course at Rondebosch Golf Club on Thursday.
Rising junior Tristen Strydom lived up to his star billing when he replaced former number one Christiaan Bezuidenhout at the top of the South African Golf Association (SAGA) rankings at the end of last year.
Five months on, the 17-year-old Serengeti golfer will be targeting his former Ekurhuleni stable mate’ rare double in the Western Province Amateur Championship after romping to a five stroke victory at Rondebosch Golf Club on Wednesday.