RUSTENBURG, North West (12 April 2011) – Ten-year-old Woo-Ju Son from Korea didn’t miss a beat as she rolled in her final putt at the ninth green and flipped her cap to acknowledge the crowd applauding her B-Division victory in the Sanlam Women’s SA Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
The pint-sized player from Bryanston Golf Club had a stronghold on this tournament at Rustenburg Golf Club from the very first hole.
RUSTENBURG, North West (11 April 2010) – On a day when the next-best round at Rustenburg Golf Club was a frustrating one-over-par 73, Swaziland’s Nobuhle Dlamini fired a four-under-par 68 for a share of the second round lead at the Sanlam Women’s SA Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
At the Annual General Meeting of Women’s Golf South Africa, held at Rustenburg Golf Club last night, Cynthia Rayner was elected as President, taking over from Erica Lefson who has been in the chair for the past three years.
Karen Olivant from KwaZulu Natal was elected as Vice-President.
RUSTENBURG, North West (10 April 2010) – It wasn’t a great round by her standards, but overnight leader Illiska Verwey did enough to hold on to share the early clubhouse lead with Swaziland’s Nobuhle Dlamini, pictured here, in the second round at the Sanlam Women’s SA Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
Dlamini, who won the Match Play title in 2009, dropped just one shot on her way to a four-under-par 68 for a share of the lead with Verwey, whose four bogeys added to a frustrating two over 74 and a 36-hole total of three-under-par 141.
RUSTENBURG, North West (10 April 2010) – Illiska Verwey stamped her authority on the Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship when she opened up a yawning gap on her challengers in the first round at Rustenburg Golf Club.
The 22-year-old from Craddock continued her fine run of recent form with a five-under-par 67. She leads by three shots from defending champion Kim Williams, local favourite Bertine Strauss, Monique Smit and Nicole Becker.
The country’s top two contenders will go head-to-head at the seventh Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Golf Championship at Rustenburg Golf Club this week.
Smooth-swinging Kim Williams, ranked number one, and South Africa’s number two, Iliska Verwey, have both underlined their good form in the run-up to the country’s premier women’s amateur tournament.
RUSTENBURG, North West (7 April 2010) – South Africa’s former number one amateur golfer Bertine Strauss is making her comeback at the Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Golf Championship after taking time off to concentrate on her studies.
Strauss will tee it up alongside her peers at the Rustenburg Golf Club to challenge in the Stroke Play from 10-12 April and the Match Play from 13-15 April.
Uitenhage’s 15-year old Kim Daniels won the SA Girls’ Rose Bowl at Clovelly Country Club this week when she carded 228 (80, 76, 72) to finish one stroke ahead of overnight leader Zayb Kippie from Royal Cape – 229 (80, 69, 76). Izel Pieters finished third on 230 (75, 80, 75).