I played with Morne Els in the Simola Pro Am and was really happy with the way his golf is coming along. He made a lot of points and we won the team competition.
Mike Browne slept on the lead for two nights and on Wednesday, the Englishman finished the job – winning the 21st Canon SA Disabled Golf Open in wire-to-wire style for a second successive year at Magalies Park.
May is the month the SA Disabled Open took place at Magalies Park. I did two sessions with Morne Els in preparation for this Tournament. One range session and another on course.
With the Carpe Diem kids we did a few sessions at the school as well as 1 session at Kingswood and then also a Holiday program where I took them to the mashie course at Glenwood short course.
August has been a busy month and we were able to do the full amount of sessions with the Kids From Carpe Diem.
It took them nearly 30 years to break a winning drought in the South African Under-19 Inter-Provincial and Ekurhuleni wasn’t about to give the trophy back this year, especially not in their own back yard.
Amilkar Bhana won his third SA Boys title with a dramatic play-off victory over fellow Central Gauteng junior Hannes Strooh at the Nomads SA Boys Under-15 Championship on Saturday.
Ekurhuleni junior Jayden Schaper cemented his number one spot in the Junior Rankings with a two-shot victory in the Nomads National Order of Merit Inland on Tuesday.
Boland proved once again that, even when teams look strong on paper, golf is still played on grass when the youthful side celebrated victory in the promotion battle at the 2018 South African Under-19 Inter-Provincial Tournament on Friday.
Ekurhuleni duo Caitlyn Macnab and Jayden Schaper will spearhead the challenge in two prestigious Nomads national championships on Monday, while Southern Cape’s Dylan Melville will lead the field in the fourth Gowrie SA Under-15 Challenge.