The Japanese Junior team blew all their opposition away on the final day of the Junior Golf World Cup when they recorded a final day team score of 206 (7 under) and a tournament team total of 822 (30 under). Their nearest competition, the USA, ended 14 strokes behind them on 836 (16 under).

Japan returned a second day in a row team total of 8 under par 205 to stretch their lead to 6 shots with one round to play at the Junior Golf World Cup at the Chukyo Golf Club in Toyoto city, Japan.

The South African Junior Golf team started the day and remained in 6th place as the team recorded a second round total of 214 (1 over). Scores of 68 (3 under), 72 (1 over) and 74 (3 over) from Stone, Bruyns and Jerling respectively, counted towards the team score for the day. Porteous continuing to struggle with his game signing for a 76 (5 over) to go with his first round 74 (3 over).

The five SA players that teed it up at The 2010 Amateur Championship at Muirfield and North Berwick on Monday failed to make it into the match play (Top 64 and ties).

The SA Junior team of Hayden Porteous, Brandon Stone, Drikus Bruyns and Luke Jerling put in a solid day one performance at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup which started in Japan today.

Five South African golfers teed it up at the 2010 edition of The Amateur Championship being played over the Muirfield and North Berwick golf courses just outside of Edinburgh, Scotland. While some of the SA players remain in the running to make it into the top 64 and the match play other players need to pull off the round of their lives to make it to the next round of the championship.

Any hope of the South African amateur golf team making history, by beating the French in an eight man test match on their home soil, was smothered by a dominant performance by the host nation in Wednesday’s singles.

South Africa ended the day one point up on hosts France after the first day in their two day test match involving eight players in each team.

JG Claassen lost his first round match to Jonathan Bell, of England, in the French Mens Amateur International Championship on Saturday.

JG Claassen recorded a fighting 70, two under par, in Friday’s second and final round of the 36 hole Qualifying competition for the 2010 French Men’s Amateur International Championship taking place at the Saint Germain Golf Club near Paris.

He started the final round of the South African Mid Amateur Championship today two shots off the pace. After a testing 69, three under par, forty three year old Glendower Golf Club member Grant Wood was crowned the 2010 South African Mid Amateur Champion.

Tyrone Ryan was the only South African to break par in the first round of the French Mens International Amateur Match Play Championship which was played Thursday at Saint Germain Golf Club just outside the French capital city.

Robbie Oosthuizen, the defending champion, recorded a one under par 71 to reduce the gap on the two over night leaders after third and penultimate round in the South African Mid Amateur Championship being played today at ERPM Golf Club in Ekurhuleni.

Texas University sophomore (second year student) Dylan Frittelli has been named the 2010 Big 12 Conference Player of the Year for men’s golf it was announced at the end of April. Frittelli, who is a member of Irene Country Club in Gauteng North, was also selected to represent the All-Big 12 team.

Brandon Stone did everything he had to today, to win the Boland Open Championship by a shot.

Leading by three at the start of the day, Brandon had an answer to every drop he made or every birdie made by his closest challengers as the final six players in the filed fought for the title.

The final pitted WP Stroke-Play Champion Tyrone Ryan against former SA Champion, JG Claassen. Ryan was attempting to join Thomas Aitken (2001) and Ryan Tipping (2002) as winners of both the stroke-play and match-play titles in the same year.

Eight players have been selected to play for South Africa against France in a test match from 25th and 26th May 2010, it was announced by the South African Golf Association (SAGA) today.

Dylan Frittelli, one of South Africa’s most prominent young amateur golfers, has been nominated as one of ten semi-finalists for the prestigious 2010 Ben Hogan Award.

One of the three teams, namely Kenya, Zimbabwe or South Africa, at the top of the log, at the end of yesterday’s third and penultimate round, in the Zone VI Team competition needed to win all eight games in today’s final round in order to win this annual competition. And this is exactly what Kenya did.

“We will have to win all eight matches tomorrow if we are to win this year,” is how South African team manager and South African Golf Association president, Enver Hassen, summed up his team’s uncustomary position and what is required of his players in tomorrow’s (Thursday) final round.