Women’s Golf South Africa President Cynthia Rayner announced the team to represent South Africa at the All Africa Challenge Trophy to be played at Phakalane Golf Estate in Botswana from 2 to 7 June 2012.
The team is Lejan Lewthwaite (pictured), Alana van Greuning and Kim Williams. Manager Cynthia Rayner. Bertine Strauss will join the team immediately afterwards to play in the Botswana Open at Gaberone Golf Club on 9 and 10 June.
Boland’s Olivia le Roux, pictured here with Free State President Michelle Holt, won the 54-hole Free State and Northern Cape Championships in a sudden-death play-off against Gauteng’s Talia Nel at Bloemfontain Golf Club yesterday, Sunday 22 April.
Swaziland’s Nobuhle Dlamini survived a late round wobble to end a three year wait with a brilliant wire-to-wire victory in the Sanlam Women’s Amateur SA Stroke Play Championship at Umhlali Country Club on Tuesday.
The Tuks Golf Academy student started with an eight shot lead and fired a final round two-over-par 73 to put the seal on a magnificent performance and a runaway victory.
Former Protea Lumien Orton (Lausberg) returned to national competition in style at the Sanlam SA Amateur Stroke Play Championships being played at Umhlali Country Club this week.
At the annual general meeting of Women’s Golf South Africa held after the first round of the 2012 Sanlam SA Amateur championships, top ranked Kim Williams was awarded the inaugural WGSA Golfer of the Year. She is pictured here receiving her trophy from WGSA Vice-President Karen Olivant.
The good news just keeps on coming for Swaziland’s Nobuhle Dlamini, who took the first round lead in the Sanlam Women’s Amateur SA Stroke Play Championship at Umhlali Country Club on Sunday.
KwaZulu-Natal’s Taryn Heyns and Tiffany Avern-Taplin are ready to lead the local challenge against the country’s leading female amateurs when the Sanlam Women’s Amateur SA Stroke Play Championship tees off in their backyard on Sunday.
Good technique, hard work and big hearts are what make Nobuhle Dlamini and Alana van Greuning such formidable opponents. And a wise head on mature shoulders and a prodigious talent yet to be fully polished, is what gives 17-year-old Lara Weinstein her incredible edge.