Southern Cape duo Brandon Cloete and Andre Nel shared the top 10 at the South African Stroke Play Championship with a Swede, an Irish pair, a Scot, three Frenchmen and an Englishman after second round action wrapped up on a soggy Wednesday in George.

Laila Hrindova from Slovakia moved into the amateur lead as Ashleigh Buhai tightened her grip on the Cape Town Ladies Open, but the Glendower pro has defending champion Lee-Anne Pace snapping at her heels at Royal Cape Golf Club.

The saying goes ‘when life hands you lemons, make lemonade’, but if Phillip Swanepoel didn’t have three rounds left in the South African Stroke Play Championship, the Stellenbosch student would have started brewing champagne after coming up trumps at Kingswood Golf Estate on Tuesday.

Chiara Contomathios, Bianca Wernich and Laila Hrindova share the amateur lead in the Cape Town Ladies Open and, if one had to judge her performance in Tuesday's opening round, the honeymoon might be over, but Ashleigh Buhai is having a whale of a time in Cape Town after giving her husband the boot.

South Africa’s top amateurs are ready to take on a wave of international players when the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship gets underway at Kingswood Golf Estate in George on Tuesday.

The second African Amateur Championship at the end of February will be a significant occasion for defending champion Albert Venter, who will wear the national blazer for the first time.
The South African Golf Association (SAGA) named Venter – along with Aubrey Beckley, Kyle McClatchie and Marco Steyn – to the Senior Team that will represent South Africa alongside a Junior Team at the prestigious international championship at Leopard Creek from 28 February to 3 March.

Catherine Lau has taken the amateur lead while, for a second time in three weeks, its advantage to a foreign campaigner as Britain’s Kiran Matharu continued to stamp her dominance on the Ladies Tshwane Open at Zwartkop Country Club on Wednesday.