26 August 2026 – GolfRSA has selected an accomplished quartet of Bryan Newman, Jack Buchanan, Kyra van Kan and Samantha Whateley to represent South Africa at the 2026 Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship, to be played at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity, Texas, from 10-15 November. The biennial event will bring together 20 of…

17 August 2026 – A record-extending 13th All Africa Teams Championship title is the target when South Africa tees it up in Tunisia this October after GolfRSA named a formidable four-man squad to defend its continental crown. The biennial championship will be contested from 13-18 October at the Golf Citrus La Forêt Course in Hammamet,…

13 August 2026 – South African amateur golf will stand proudly alongside the country’s leading sporting codes and athletes after GolfRSA earned three nominations for the 2026 SA Sports Awards. GolfRSA has been nominated for Federation of the Year, while the history-making South African Eisenhower Trophy side of Christiaan Maas, Daniel Bennett and Charl Barnard…

14 June 2026 – GolfRSA will introduce an updated rankings system on 1 August 2026 as part of its transition to the new DotGolf tournament management platform, delivering a simpler, more consistent and easier-to-understand ranking system for golfers across South Africa. The rankings update follows the recent migration of South Africa’s handicap system to DotGolf…

CAPE TOWN, 26 May 2026 – North West’s Peet van Schalkwyk and Gauteng North’s Madeleine de Wet were elected as the new Presidents of The South African Golf Association (SAGA) and Womens Golf South Africa (WGSA) respectively in May. Van Schalkwyk, who managed the South African team to a historic first Eisenhower Trophy triumph at…

2 April 2026 – GolfRSA has announced the rising stars selected for the GolfRSA Men’s National Squad Class of 2026 | 2027, reaffirming its commitment to identifying, supporting and developing South Africa’s most promising young amateur golfers. Launched in 2015, the GolfRSA National Squad programme has already helped to produce an impressive list of graduates…

EAST LONDON, 31 March 2026 – Andries van der Vyver equalled a world record when he closed the Nomads SA Boys U19 Stroke Play Championship with a nine-under-par 64 to reach 35-under-par at East London Golf Club. The 18-year-old Strand Golf Club junior matched the 35-under-par total set by Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama in the Sentry…

27 March 2026 – Reigning South African Amateur champion Judd Sundelson will lead the national team in defence of the title when he earns his first senior cap at the 2026 Africa Region 5 Golf Tournament, to be played from 4–9 May at Ezulwini Golf and Country Club in Eswatini. Sundelson, currently pursuing his Masters…

1 March 2026 – Charl Barnard etched his name onto the storied Freddie Tait Cup Trophy as leading amateur at the Investec South African Open, while another former amateur winner, Casey Jarvis, cruised to a three-stroke victory in the world’s second-oldest national open at Stellenbosch Golf Club. Barnard missed the cut in his SA Open…

28 March 2026 – When Dian Kruger tried to put pedal to the metal in the third round of the Investec South African Open Championship at Stellenbosch Golf Club on Saturday, he couldn’t quite pull away from the field, signing for a two-over-par 72. Kruger spends his spare hours racing a Mercedes at Zwartkops Raceway,…