Gauteng North A (Daisies) will be defending the Pick n Pay SA Women’s Inter-Provincial Championship title they have won for the past four years – in 2007 (Clovelly), 2008 (Umhlali), 2009 (Paarl) and 2010 (Irene) when the event is played at George Golf Club from 18 to 23 September 2011.
Former Southern Cape Number One Monique Smit stamped her mark in the province once again when she won the Southern Cape Championships in a play-off against Kim Williams on Sunday on a soaked Knysna golf course.
Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Championship to be split into separate Stroke Play and Match Play tournaments from 2012. Pictured are the 2011 Champions Kim Williams (Stroke Play) and Iliska Verwey (Match Play).
Women’s Golf South Africa will increase its affiliated member unions to 13 in January 2012 with the inclusion of the new Ekurhuleni Women’s Golf union. Pictured here is the incoming President Daphne Maynier.
Gauteng’s Michelle Leigh represented WGSA at the gSports Awards held at the Wanderers Club earlier this month.
Sadly, the South African girls did not qualify for the match play of the Girls British Open Amateur played at Gullane Golf Club in Scotland this week. The top qualifier was 17 year old Noemí Jiménez from Spain who finished on -5 and goes forward with 63 other girls today to the match play.
Lara Weinstein, the best of the South African girls competing in the Girls British Open Amateur, is tied 51st and, with only 64 of the 144 players able to qualify for the match-play stages, the girls know that they will have to dig deep today in order to qualify for thr match play.
Sweden’s Lynn Carlsson won the 54 hole 2011 Harder German Junior Championship after a two-hole playoff against Marina Steutz (Austria). The two had tied at the top of the leader-board on five-under 211, three strokes ahead of the German pair, Larissa Skodda and Isabel Gadea, tied on 214. South Africa’s Izel Pieters finished tied 10th on three-over 219 (75, 71, 73).
The three SA girls pictured here are looking pretty in Adidas Pink.