Boland amateur Bianca Lohbauer stole the show on the tournament favourites in the first round of the prestigious Sanlam SA Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Sunday.
The 19-year-old Boland amateur produced a solid one-over-par 73 as the field struggled to come to terms with the undulating greens and the blustery conditions at Glendower Golf Club and the lead changed hands at least half-a-dozen times.
It’s one of South Africa’s most historic golf clubs, and top-ranked women’s amateur Ivanna Samu wants to make some history of her own when she tees it up in the Sanlam Women’s South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Glendower Golf Club from 19-21 April.
Chiara Contomathios demonstrated maturity well beyond her years to hold off South Africa’s number one ranked Ivanna Samu for a one stroke victory in the Nomads SA Girl’s Rose Bowl Championship at Paarl Golf Club on Tuesday.
South Africa’s top ranked Ivanna Samu took the 36-hole lead in the Nomads SA Girl’s Rose Bowl Championship on Monday and heads up a strong Gauteng challenge at Paarl Golf Club.
Cara Gorlei claimed her third podium finish this season when she edged out local favourite Lizzie Currie by two strokes for the KwaZulu-Natal Stroke Play Championship title at Beachwood on Sunday.
Cara Gorlei from Western Province, Shawnelle de Lange from Gauteng and Demi Flanagan from Border will fly the flag for South Africa at the fifth Regional All-Africa Challenge Trophy (RAACT) at the Omeya Golf Estate in Windhoek from 27-30 April.
Just a little over a month since she lifted the Eastern Province Championship Match Play title, Cara Gorlei was in ascendancy again in the Pam Golding Properties WGWP Amateur Championship.
Coming off a tie for second in the stroke play, the Western Province number one defeated fellow Western Province Squad member Zayb Fredericks 3 & 2 at Bellville Golf Club.
Western Province’s Amy Henning will chase down the Pam Golding Properties WGWP Amateur Championship double after claiming the Edith Bowie Trophy in the Stroke Play Championship at Bellville Golf Club on Monday.