Pretoria amateur Zander Lombard faces the biggest challenge of his career when he goes up against former Scottish Boys champion, Bradley Neil, in the final of the Amateur Championship in Northern Ireland on Sunday.

South Africa’s Zander Lombard reached the quarterfinals of the match play section at the Amateur Championship at Royal Portrush after he survived an intense 19 hole battle against Englishman Haydn McCullen on Friday.

Wingate Park’s Teagan Gauche heads the 10-strong group of South Africans after the first round of the weather-interrupted Amateur Championship at Royal Portrush and nearby Portstewart in Northern Ireland.

South Africa’s top amateurs failed to take the sting out of a home defeat at the Leopard Trophy earlier this year when they lost 11 – 7 to the Scots in a two-day test at Western Gailes Golf Club on Thursday.

The South African team were left with work to do after the first round of a two-day Test against Scotland at the Western Gailes Golf Club near Irvine went the way of the hosts on Wednesday.

Modderfontein’s Marco Steyn drained an eagle putt at the 18^thhole of the East Course at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington to seal a one-stroke victory in the ProShop Northern Amateur Stroke Play Championship on Monday.

South Africa’s top-ranked amateur, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, weathered tough international competition to claim a top 50 finish at the prestigious St Andrews Links Trophy in Scotland on Sunday.

South Africa’s leading amateur Christiaan Bezuidenhout and recent Lytham Trophy champion Thriston Lawrence both finished inside the top 20 at the Carrick Neil Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship on Sunday.

South Africa’s leading amateur Christiaan Bezuidenhout, recent Lytham Trophy champion Thriston Lawrence and Prince’s Grant Amateur winner NJ Arnoldi will hunt for glory in the Carrick Neil Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship this weekend.
The trio will face a strong local challenge led by the country’s top ranked amateur, Grant Forrest, in the 72-hole event at the Panmure Links in Angus.

The South African junior golf team claimed two gold medals, a silver and a bronze at the Africa Youth Games on Thursday to help boost the Team South Africa’s medal tally in Botswana to a record high of 77.

Eleonora Galletti helped Kyle McClatchie celebrate a memorable 17^th birthday in Botswana by helping Team South Africa into the lead at the Africa Youth Games at Gaborone Golf Club on Wednesday.

Top SA junior golfers Kyle McClatchie, Hennie du Plessis, Eleonora Galletti and Shawnelle de Lange got South Africa’s challenge underway at the second African Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana on Tuesday.

Thriston Lawrence, Zander Lombard and Graeme Watson enjoyed significant victories in May, while top ranked senior Mellette Hendrikse and juniors Paul Boshoff and Tristen Strydom made a return trip to the podium and Gregory Royston celebrated a breakthrough provincial win in East London.

On a day of high drama at Cullinan Golf Club, Basil Wright produced a champions shot in the final game to secure victory for Central Gauteng and wrench the Challenge Cup Teams Tournament victory title from the South African Golf Association Juniors.

While Boland beat Ekurhuleni to savoured A-Section victory in the South African Country Districts Tournament, Border popped the corks on a triumphant promotion campaign at the Fish River Sun Country Club on Friday.
Ekurhuleni crumbled under a vicious singles assault and went down 4 – 8 to Boland, while Border defeated Southern Cape 7 – 5 to earn their way into the A-Section of next year’s championship.

The South African Golf Association Junior side kept their title defence on track at the Challenge Cup Teams Tournament, while Central Gauteng and Gauteng North traded places in the log and Western Province rebounded from three successive losses in Thursday’s fourth round at Cullinan Golf Club.

The battle lines have been drawn and this year’s South African Country Districts Tournament will go down the wire as the top teams in both sections combat for glory at the Fish River Sun Country Club on Friday.

The South African Golf Association Junior side served up another commanding performance at the Challenge Cup Teams Tournament to edge ahead of Gauteng North and Central Gauteng at the halfway mark at Cullinan Golf Club on Wednesday.