Gauteng made a fast start to their title defence in the 72-Hole Teams Championship, but surprisingly it was the B-team who pushed the 2015 champions in early pole position in the Swiss Team Trophy division at Middelburg Country Club on Monday.
Gauteng have doubled their chances for back-to-back titles in the 72 Hole Team Championship with two strong teams taking aim in the Swiss Team Trophy division at Middelburg Country Club from 22 – 25 May.
Ivanna Samu and Kaleigh Telfer spent the better part of last season jostling for the number one position on the Womens Golf South Africa (WGSA) Senior Rankings and their rivalry is alive and kicking five months into 2016.
Johannesburg’s Kaleigh Telfer claimed her maiden Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship title when she won by six strokes at Westlake Golf Club on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old Telfer closed with a tournament low of three-under-par 69 to win on one over par. Eleonora Galletti and Switzerland’s Azelia Meichtry shared second place on seven over par.
It’s not yet on the level of her love for Deep House music, but 17-year-old Kaleigh Telfer is slowly starting to understand Westlake Golf Club’s course. And if she can hold onto her two-stroke lead in Tuesday’s final round of the Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship, she may well leave here loving it.
Free Stater Chante van Zyl has had to make do with the forced closure of nine of the 18 holes at her home course and very little in the way of quality greens or even a practice bunker to prepare for this week’s Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship. But she was still able to share the lead in Sunday’s first round at Westlake Golf Club.
Ernie Els’s role as a mentor to South Africa’s golfers was evident again when his words to Branden Grace during a cup of coffee inspired Grace to a maiden PGA Tour victory. This week a young golfer from an East London township who benefits from Els’s support will keep trying to achieve her own goals when she tees it up in the Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Westlake Golf Club.
South Africa’s top trio Ivanna Samu, Kaleigh Telfer and Zethu Myeki collected an unprecedented 12th victory for the country in the 13th edition of the All-Africa Challenge Trophy (AACT) in Hammemet, Tunisia on Friday.