Just 10 days after she defeated SA number one Kim Williams for the Mpumalanga Championship title, Kaleigh Telfer has taken a three shot lead in the KwaZulu-Natal Junior Championship at Selborne Golf Club.

Western Province’s Altin van der Merwe and Cara Gorlei both claimed top three finishes for South Africa at the 5^th Albatross International Junior Golf Championship in India on Friday.

South African top junior Bianca Theron enjoyed a 13-shot swing on her opening 85 and vaulted to sixth in the Girls U-18 Division at the 5^th Albatross International Junior Golf Championship in Greater Noira, India.

Two of the country’s top junior golfers, Bianca Theron and Cara Gorlei, will be flying the flag for South Africa in the 5^th Albatross International Junior Golf Championship India, which tees off at the Jaypee Greens Golf Club in Delhi on Wednesday.

Bryanston golfer Kaleigh Telfer won the Mpumalanga Championship after two brilliant shots propelled the teenager to a runaway victory over reigning Sanlam SA Amateur champion Kim Williams at Middelburg Golf Club on Sunday.

It has been a season of close calls for Magda Kruger, but the Gauteng North junior golfer hopes to get the monkey off her back at the Mpumalanga Open & Closed Championship at Middelburg Golf Club this weekend.

Southern Cape golfer Sonja Bland ensured her trip to Mpumalanga would be an unforgettable one as she shrugged off the final day pressure from overnight co-leader Sheryl Matthews to lift the South African Mid-Amateur Championship title on Wednesday.

Southern Cape golfer Sonja Bland kept a tentative hold on to her overnight lead of the South African Mid-Amateur Championship, but the Southern Cape golfer will have some company at the top going into the final round at Graceland Hotel, Casino and Country Club on Wednesday.

Southern Cape golfer Sonja Bland has taken pole position in the championship division of the South African Mid-Amateur Championship at Graceland Hotel, Casino and Country Club on Monday.

Top Southern Cape golfer Sonja Bland has targeted victory in the South African Mid-Amateur Championship that tees off at Graceland Hotel, Casino and Country Club on Monday and the George golfer is bringing some great form to Mpumalanga.

South Africa sealed a third top five finish in the country’s seventh appearance in the prestigious Spirit International in the United States with a final round four-under-par 68 at Whispering Pines near Trinity in Texas on Saturday.

It was a long day at the office for the participants in this year’s Spirit International, but the South African quartet showed great courage and determination to finish in a strong position at the 36-hole mark in the United States on Friday.

Fierce storms, more than 160mm in rainfall and a 25½-hour interruption to the first round had very little impact on the South Africa’s four-man team at this year’s Spirit International in Texas. When darkness fell on the first round of play, the local heroes had pacesetters America well in their sights.

Organisers at the Spirit International were forced to shorten this year’s championship to 54 holes following more than 160mm rainfall at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Wednesday’s first round.

Kim Williams from Gauteng North, Christiaan Bezuidenhout from Ekurhuleni and Gauteng’s Lara Weinstein and Louis Taylor are primed for The Spirit International challenge in the United States next week. Having represented South Africa in 2007, 2009 and 2011, Williams will be honoured during the opening ceremony at the first Spirit International participant to play in four championships.

Just days after she was denied the Boland Championship title in a play-off for, Gauteng North’s Carrie Park exacted her revenge with a runaway victory in the 33^rdAckerman Championship on Sunday. The 16-year-old from Pretoria was still smarting from her defeat when she teed it up at Rondebosch Golf Club, but rounds of 74 and 72 saw her to a two-stroke lead at the 36-hole mark and this time Park was determined to finally go the full course. While the rest of the field struggled in winds gusting up to 50km per hour, Park bravely romped to a nine stroke victory with a final round 75.

Western Province’s Ji Sun Kang issued a stern warning to the participants of the 33rd Ackerman Championship this weekend when she claimed a play-off victory in the Boland Stroke Play Championship on Monday. The 17-year-old reigning Nomads SA Girls champion has been in impressive form this season and underlined her growing stature when she defeated Carrie Park at the first extra hole at Somerset West Golf Club.

Birdie machine Mae Cornforth defeated top SA junior Magda Kruger to lift the Boland Championship Match Play title in a testing battle at Somerset West Golf Club. The Potchefstroom wielded a hot putter as she navigated her way past Elzanne Kent, Carrie Park and Nicole Garcia to reach the final where she beat Kruger 2&1 for the title.

Bryanston Country Club has confirmed that rising junior golfer Kaleigh Telfer is the first player to claim a rare double in the history of the club.

With less than a four weeks before they depart for the United States, four of South Africa’s top amateurs are hard at work preparing for the 2013 Spirit International in Texas from 30 October to 2 November.