Rory McIlroy had to overturn a three-shot deficit if he wants to lift the BMW SA Open crown and get his 2017 season off to a winning start in the City of Ekurhuleni.

It’s hard to quibble when the 54-hole leader last made a bogey 41 holes ago, but that’s exactly the position in which England’s Graeme Storm finds himself after the third round of the BMW SA Open proudly hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni.

Enthusiastic young golfers from Ekurhuleni enjoyed the chance to show off their blossoming skills in a golf development clinic before catching some of the action at this year’s BMW SA Open hosted by The City of Ekurhuleni.

Graeme Storm fired a course record nine-under-par 63 to hit the front at Glendower Golf Club, but neither the Englishman’s feat nor the cut worries of South Africa’s two top ranked amateurs ranked high on the minds of the golf fans after the second round of the BMW SA Open proudly hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni was suspended on Friday.

South Africa’s first Olympian golfer Kyle McClatchie beat the nerves with an impressive show of composure to lead the nine-strong amateur delegation on day one of the BMW SA Open hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni.
The 19-year-old from Ekurhuleni crafted a magnificent one-under-par 71 at the championship layout of Glendower Golf Club on Thursday to grab a share of 43rd.

South Africans Keith Horne and Trevor Fisher Jnr managed to upstage Rory McIlroy on Thursday in the opening round of the BMW SA Open proudly hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni at Glendower Golf Club – but only just.
The duo each carded six-under-par 66 to have a one-stroke edge over the world number two, with four other players on five-under-par 67 with McIlroy – South Africans Thomas Aiken, Dean Burmester and Jbe’ Kruger, and England’s Jordan L Smith.

Here are the amateur pairings and tee times for the first round of the 2017 BMW SA Open Hosted by Ekurhuleni at Glendower Golf Club on Thursday, 12 January. Good luck to all our rising stars!!

If you were wondering just how badly the next generation wants a stab at competing in the world’s second oldest national championship, just ask 20-year-old Free State amateur Juran Dreyer.

KwaZulu-Natal’s Michaela Fletcher shot her way to a fourth place finish in the Sunshine Ladies Tour’s season-opening SuperSport Ladies Challenge at Huddle Park Golf Club this January.

Amateur Dylan Naidoo’s unprecedented win on the Big Easy Tour at Observatory last year has made him one of the hottest amateur golfers in the country, and he will want make an impact at this week’s BMW SA Open hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni at Glendower Golf Club.

Brandon Stone played awfully good golf in the last tournament he played. He won the Alfred Dunhill Championship by seven strokes, and he’s back in the saddle for this week’s BMW SA Open hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni at Glendower Golf Club.

Rory McIlroy may be entering the €1.2 million BMW SA Open hosted by City of Ekurhuleni as the favourite but the world number two is taking nothing for granted at Glendower Golf Club.

In a dramatic finish to the inaugural Friendship Cup, Ernie Els and Fancourt Foundation member Jovan Rebula pipped Harry Goddard from the Faldo Series team at the last hole to claim his place in the BMW SA Open Pro-Am on Wednesday.

Gauteng teenager Woo Ju Son bolstered her number one spot in the Golf RSA Womens Golf South Africa Junior Rankings with back-to-back victories in the first two weeks of the season.

Boland junior Garrick Higgo underlined his rising star status when he captured the Golf RSA Nomads National Order of Merit Coastal on Monday. Picking up where he left off last year, the 17-year-old reigning Central Gauteng Open champion started his 2017 season on a winning note when he closed out a three shot victory on 14-under-par 205 on a windy final day at Royal Durban Golf Club.

Southern Cape junior Martin Vorster fired a closing 69 on Friday to complete a wire-to-wire victory over Casey Jarvis from Ekurhuleni in the Golf RSA Nomads South African Boys Under-15 Championship.

Casey Jarvis from State Mines threw everything except the kitchen sink at Martin Vorster, but the tenacious Southern Cape junior held on to his overnight lead on day two of the Nomads South African Boys U-15 Championship on Thursday.

Reigning Nomads SA Boys Under-17 champion Wilco Nienaber held his nerve to edge out Slade Pickering from North West for the first title on South African Golf Association’s 2017 national junior circuit on Thursday.

Southern Cape’s Martin Vorster made a flying start with a five-under-par 67 to grab the first round lead in the Nomads South African Boys U-15 Championship on Wednesday.

Slade Pickering is hunting consecutive victories on the South African Golf Association’s National Junior circuit after he soared into the lead in the Nomads Inland National Order of Merit with a sizzling second round nine-under-par 63 on Wednesday.