South Africa’s Drikus Bruyns continued his incredible run in Argentina with two more victories during the second round of the 117^th Argentine Amateur Championship on Friday.

South Africa’s Drikus Bruyns comfortably advanced to the second round of the 117^th Argentine Amateur Championship at the Pilar Golf Club near Buenos Aires on Thursday. South Africa’s fourth ranked amateur thumped Teemu Tapani Toivonen from Finland 3&1 to set up a match against local favourite Jaime Lopez Ravarola in today’s second round.

South Africa’s number three ranked amateur Zander Lombard and Southern Cape Open champion Sipho Bujela laid down early markers for the Freddie Tait Cup awarded to the leading amateur when they opened up a gap on the remaining amateurs challenging at this year’s South African Open Championship.

South Africa’s Drikus Bruyns and CJ du Plessis will start their match play campaign at the 117^th Argentine Amateur Championship today after successfully completing the qualifier on Wednesday.

Soweto amateur Sipho Bujela will make history as the first black amateur exempt from qualifying when he tees it up in the South African Open Championship at Serengeti Golf and Wildlife Estate on Thursday. As the custodians of the country's national Open, the South African Golf Association (SAGA) nominates five top amateurs to play in the championship. This year's nominations are Brandon Stone, Zander Lombard and Haydn Porteous, who represented South Africa at the World Amateur Team Championships in Turkey, Ekurhuleni’s Gert Myburgh and Bujela.

Just a day after South Africa’s Dirkus Bruyns and CJ du Plessis rallied to a share of fourth in the International Team Competition at Juan Carlos Tailhade Cup in Argentina, the pair were put through their paces at the 117th Argentine Amateur Championship on Tuesday.

South Africa’s Drikus Bruyns and CJ du Plessis produced a strong performance in the final round to claim a share of fourth in the International Team Competition at the weather-interrupted Juan Carlos Tailhade Cup in Argentina on Sunday.

South Africa’s Drikus Bruyns is still in the hunt at this year’s Juan Carlos Tailhade Cup in Argentina, where Geoff Drakeford of Australia has taken charge of the Individual Competition with a superb five-under-par 66 in the rain-interrupted third round at the Los Lagartos Country Club near Buenos Aires.

The torrential rain finally let up on Saturday afternoon, allowing South African amateurs Drikus Bruyns and CJ du Plessis to continue their bid for the Juan Carlos Tailhade Cup title in Argentina.

South Africans Drikus Bruyns and CJ du Plessis will have to wait until the rain abets to continue their bid for the Juan Carlos Tailhade Cup title in Argentina after torrential downpours forced the organisers to postpone the second round until Saturday.

South Africa’s Drikus Bruyns fired an opening two-under-par 69 to finish just two off the pace in the Individual Competition and helped South Africa to a top five position in the Team Competition in the 17th Juan Carlos Tailhade Cup in Argentina.

Top ranked amateur golfers Drikus Bruyns and CJ du Plessis will attempt to extend South Africa’s fine record in the event when they represent the South African Golf Association (SAGA) in the 17th Juan Carlos Tailhade Cup from 8-11 November at Los Lagartos Country Club.

Brandon Stone and Zander Lombard pulled out all the stops on Sunday to lift South Africa to a 23^rd place finish at the weather-reduced World Amateur Team Championships in Turkey. Playing purely for pride and position, Stone carved out a three-under-par 68 at the Sultan Course at Antalya Golf Club and Lombard produced a one-under-par 70 to improve four shots on their overnight total and finish the weather-reduced 54-hole championship on a team total of one-under-par 427.

Hoping to recover from a disappointing start in their bid to lift the country’s first Eisenhower Trophy, South Africa’s three leading amateurs had pinned their hopes on solid performances in the remaining three rounds at Antalya Golf Club in Turkey. However, thunderstorms so severely interrupted play at the World Amateur Team Championships on Friday that only six teams was able to complete their rounds.

South Africa’s three leading amateurs were hungry to reverse their disappointing start to the World Amateur Team Championships in Turkey and get their title bid back on track with a solid performance on Friday, but inclement weather dealt their hopes a huge blow.

The country’s three leading amateurs made a disappointing start in the opening round of the World Amateur Team Championships in Turkey and are well off the record-breaking pace set by the United States on Thursday. The trio combined for a total of three-over-par 145 at the Sultan Course at the Antalya Golf Club, which left the local side tied for 34th in the field of 72 competing countries.

Brandon Stone, Haydn Porteous and Zander Lombard are geared up to launch their bid to become the first South African team to lift the prestigious Eisenhower Trophy since the World Amateur Team Championship launched in 1958. And the country’s leading three amateurs will carry some red hot form into the 2012 edition of the world’s most prestigious biennial team competition, which tees off at the Antalya Club in Turkey from 4-7 October.

What looked to be the Western Province’s 17^th triumph turned into a glorious moment for Boland and for the first time in 52-year history of the country’s most prestigious amateur teams competition, two teams will share the South African Inter-Provincial title.

Central Gauteng gave it an almighty push to come from behind and win the last two matches against Western Province to square this morning’s final round foursomes at the South African Inter-Provincial.

The Western Province and Central Gauteng will face off in Friday’s final round of the South African Inter-Provincial what promises to be an epic battle for supremacy but, while the big dogs fight about the bone, Boland could sneak in the back door.