The 2024 GNGU Mid Amateur and Senior Closed was played at a cold Woodhill Country Club on Saturday 8 June and Sunday 9 June. Joe Mnyandu took the early lead after carding a fantastic 68, 4 under par.

On Sunday there was an exciting finish when Joe won the Mid Am title by defeating Paddy Allardice in a sudden death play off after the two tied on a total score of 143, 1 under par. Jauqo Jacobs won the Senior title by defending his lead with a score of 152, 8 over par. Winning by 2 strokes over Dirk Kotze.

Notable prize winners:
Mid Am winner – Joe Mnyandu
2nd Mid Am – Paddy Allardice
3rd Mid Am – Tertius van den Berg
Senior Winner – Jauqo Jacobs
Senior 2nd – Dirk Kotze
Mid Am B Division winner – Rudolf Buys
Senior B Division winner – William Morkel
Best Nett – Pierre Smith

For full results click here

Thank you to Woodhill Country Club for hosting the tournament!

The first GNGU C Division Open was held on a cold wet Pretoria Golf Club on Sunday 2 June 2024. This tournament is a new initiative to give back to the higher handicapped golfers. Elna Brits from Pretoria Country Club claimed the spoils with a fantastic score of 41 points. The runner up was Engela van Dyk winning the count back on 38 points over third place Eredine Olivier.

For full results click here.

Thank you to Pretoria Golf Club for hosting our golfers!

It gives us great pleasure to announce the team who will be representing GNGU at the upcoming Senior & Super Inter Provincial. The Senior team will be managed by Morné Engelbreght and the Super Senior team will be managed by Petrus Pieterse.

We wish the team all the best for their preparations.

The Northern Provinces Scratch League Finals were held at Royal Johannesburg on 29 & 30 July 2023. Each of the Unions competing sends their champion scratch league side to contest
the title. The teams competing were Silver Lakes – GNGU, Magalies Park – NWGU,
Reading – EGU, Royal Johannesburg – CGGU and Witbank – MPU.

The Silver Lakes boys stepped up on Sunday afternoon though after loosing to Magalies Park on the Sunday morning to claim the title. For full results CLICK HERE.

This is the third time Silver Lakes have won the title in the last four additions of the tournament.

On Sunday 30 July the 2023 GNGU Champion of Champions were held at the Home of GNGU, Irene Country Club.  The players faced some tricky conditions, with a strong icy wind blowing
for most of the day that made scoring tricky. The winners of the A, B, C and Caddie divisions
will all qualify to play in the National Final sponsored by the Courier Guy to be played Pecanwood from 15 to 18 October 2023.

Results:
Mens A Division          –  Tokkie van den Berg (Pretoria Golf Club)
Womens A Division    –  Gina da Silva (Centurion Country Club)
Mens B Division          –  Johan Botha (Woodhill Country Club)
Womens B Division    –  Russo Roberts-Gouws (The Els Club at Copperleaf)
Mens C Diviison          –  Willem Barnard (Woodhill Country Club)
Womens C Division    –  Hester Oberholzer (Pretoria Country Club)
Caddie Division           –  Joey Leso (Blair Atholl)
Senior Mens Division – Gerhard Strydom (Waterkloof Golf Club)
Senior Ladies Division- Elsonia Herselman (The Els Club at Copperleaf)

Thank you to all the clubs and their players who competed in the championship.  Also a big thank you to Irene Country Club for hosting the tournament.

It gives us great pleasure to announce the team who will be representing us at the upcoming Premier Inter Provincial to be played at East London Golf Club from 18 to 22 September 2023.

Team:
Tokkie van den Berg (c) – Pretoria Golf Club
Fabrizio de Abreu – Woodhill Country Club
Keagan Crosbie – Centurion Country Club
Tristan Leonard – Irene Country Club
Matthew Rossouw – Centurion Country Club
Nishalin Naidoo – Zwartkop Country Club
Christopher van der Merwe – Wingate Park Country Club
Tobias de Flamingh – Silver Lakes Golf Estate
The team will be managed by Morné Engelbreght

We would like to wish the team all the best with their preparations for the tournament!