Nicol van Wyk, playing in strong blustery weather conditions, recorded a level par 70, giving him a 54 hole total of 206, four under par, two shots off the lead going into tomorrow's fourth and final round of the New Zealand Stroke Play Championship.

Nicol van Wyk recorded a second round 65, five under par, to finish with a 36 hole total of 136, four under par, and a share of the lead at the halfway stage in the New Zealand Stroke Play Championship.

Both Dean O'Riley and Nicol van Wyk recorded first round scores of 71, one over par, to finish near the top of the New Zealand Stroke Play Championship leaderboard at the end of play today.

Dean O'Riley and Steve Ferreira recorded a level par 140 to finish 3rd in the 36 hole New Zealand Foursomes Championship played today at the Titirangi Golf Club in Auckland.

The four players who made up the South African team, which finished second in the Southern Cross Cup last week, have entered the 36 hole New Zealand Foursomes Championship which starts tomorrow at Titirangi Golf Club in Auckland.

The South African amateur golf team beat Argentina, the defending champions, 4 and 2, in the final round of the 2009 Southern Cross Cup, to finish second for the fourth consecutive time.

The win that South African amateur golf team needed, against host nation New Zealand, in the second and penultimate round of the Southern Cross Cup, did not materialize, instead ending all square with both teams getting 3 points a piece.

Going down 2½ points to Australia's 3½ proved to be a tough start for the South African amateur golf team participating in the international quadrangular known as the Southern Cross Cup.

Playing foursomes in the morning and betterball in the afternoon, the South African amateur golf team won all eight of their matches to take the lead after the second round of the Zone VI Team competition being played at Chapman Golf Club, Harare.

Four of South Africa's best amateur golfers, along with the team manager Enver Hassen, president of the South African Golf Association (SAGA), set off, over the weekend, in a confident mood, for New Zealand, to play in the international quadrangular team event known as the Southern Cross Cup.

The South African Zone VI team won six of their singles matches, halved one and lost one to score 6½ points, out of a possible 8, after the first round in the international team competition being played at Chapman Golf Club, Harare.

JG Claassen continued his rich vein of form when he won the 2009 Zimbabwe Amateur Golf Championship yesterday, played over 72 holes of stroke play at the Royal Harare Golf Club. He finished on 277, eleven under par, one shot clear of a leader board that was dominated by the South African Zone VI team.

Harare (Zimbabwe) (11 April) - Leon Knoll leads by one shot after the conclusion of today's second round of the 2009 Zimbabwe Amateur Golf Championship being played at Royal Harare Golf Club in the capital city.

Johannesburg - 20 March 2009. As a result of the Handicap Tender issued by the South African Golf Association (SAGA) recently, a lot of questions have been asked that revolve around the process. These have been posted onto the SAGA's website.

The SAGA received fifteen tenders in response to its Handicap and Course Rating Tender document published at the end of last month.

There were times during his professional career when Ryan Dreyer played matches at his club for money to supplement his income on tour. He rarely lost, and at Benoni Country Club on Friday, the 36-year-old reinstated amateur drew on that experience to win the Glacier SA Amateur Championship.

The SAGA announces the teams for the Southern Cross Cup and Zone VI, both competitions taking place next month

The South African Golf Association (SAGA) issued a tender document (on Monday 23rd February 2009) in which it calls for interested companies to tender for the business of managing and administering its Handicapping and Course Rating System in partnership with SAGA.

They are separated by 15 years in age and are at vastly different stages in their careers. But Adrian Ford and Ryan Dreyer share one thing in common in that both are through to their first Glacier SA Amateur match play final at Benoni Country Club on Friday.

It's listed as a semi-final, but there's no doubt that the Thursday afternoon meeting between South Africa's top two amateurs could easily be the final of this Glacier SA Amateur Championship at Benoni Country Club.