The 2019 Regional Champion of Champions was held on Sunday 21 July,  at a cold Silver Lakes Country Club. Congratulations to the following divisional winners who will be going through to the National Champion of Champions at Zebula Golf Estate and Spa on 3rd – 6th November 2019:-

Men’s A Division Champion – Patric Dowling from Blair Athol
Women’s A Division Champion – Gina da Silva from Centurion Country Club

Men’s B Division Champion – Johan Erasmus from Waterkloof Golf Club
Women’s B Division Champion – Hannah Venter from Waterkloof Golf Club

Men’s C Division Champion – Roberto Welthagen from Akasia Golf Club
Women’s C Division Champion – Thea Nel from the Els Club at Copperleaf

Also, congratulations to the senior champions, Phillip Croukamp from Pretoria Golf Club and Karin Watts from Services Golf Club.

Thank you to Silver Lakes Country Club and their members for hosting the GNGU Champion of Champions 2019.

It gives us great pleasure to announce the following team that has been selected to represent GNGU at the upcoming Premier Inter Provincial to be held at Mbombela Golf Club from 16 – 20 September 2019

Jacques van Tonder (Captain)           Waterkloof GC
Andrew Williamson                             Irene CC
Stals Swart                                            Pretoria CC
Armand van Dyk                                  Woodhill CC
Werner Deyzel                                     Woodhill CC
Christiaan Maas                                   Pretoria CC
Francois van der Walt                         Irene CC
Nicholas Souranis                                Wingate Park CC

The team will be managed by Morné Engelbrecht and assistant manager GNGU President, Johan Struwig.
We wish them the best of luck for all their preparations leading up to the tournament as well as the tournament ahead!

The GNGU Closed was held on 14 April 2019 at Services Golf Club. Jacques van Tonder successfully defended his GNGU Closed title on a great score of 139, 5 under par.

A big thanks must be extended to Services Golf Club, their Committee, Management, Staff and Members for giving up their course for the day. The course was in a good condition and all the players enjoyed their day out.

Congratulations and thanks to all players for participating in this event.  CLICK HERE for the final results.  Pictured above 2019 Champion Jacques van Tonder with Vice-President, Paul Davel.

The Ernie Els and Fancourt Foundation had their annual awards function at Rand Park Golf Club. Akasia Golf Club Member and Ladies IPT Captain Larissa du Preez won the prestigious Dr Hasso Plattner Award for Academic Excellence.

New inductees for 2019 from GNGU were Shanice de Gee from Woodhill Country Club and Boipelo Raphiri from Akasia Golf Club.

*Photo Credit – Ernie Els & Fancourt Foundation

The 2018 Silver Salver was played at Irene Country Club from 19-21 October 2018. The Tournament winner was Yurav Premlall (-5) who shot rounds of 72, 69, 70 to win the Salver by 2 shots over Kieron van Wyk (-2) who was in a close second.

Fridays first round saw 108 players teeing it up with the dream of adding their name to the greats who won the Silver Salver in the past. Local boy Andrew Williamson had a dream round of 65 which included a Hole in One on the par 3 7^th.

Round 2 was tormented by adverse weather that meant that the round only could be completed on Sunday morning, this reduced the tournament to 54 holes. Round 2’s best round was played by Karabo Mokoena 6 under par 66.

On a score of 4 under par 68, Jayden Schaper and Daniel Nduva were the players with the lowest rounds in round 3.

For the results CLICK HERE

We would like to thank Price Waterhouse Coopers for the sponsorship and their continued support of the event and the Union. We also like to thank Irene Country Club and their members for presenting beautiful course making the facility available for the event.

The 2018 GNGU Team of Two Tournament was held on the 16^th of September at Silver Lakes Country Club. Adding to the initiative to grow the smaller events and to give more golfers the opportunity to play, the tournament was open to both men and women with no handicap limit. The tournament had 30 pairs entered.

The format of the day was Betterball Medal Net in the morning and Foursomes Medal in the afternoon. It was a battle of the local players with Madeleine de Wet and Franci Coetzee on a total of 135.5 nett snatching victory with only 0.5 between them and second place Willem Kloppers and Yolandi Kloppers who had the best morning round of 58 nett.  Third place went to Joe Mnyandu and Clifton Stanley.

For full results CLICK HERE

Thank you to Silver Lakes CC and its members for allowing us to host the tournament at your Club and for your assistance and hospitality.

The next teams event is on the 7^th of October at The Els Club at Copperleaf.  This is the Coronation Cup.  It is another opportunity for any affiliated golfer to enter and have a fun day out on the golf course.  CLICK HERE to enter online for this event.

On Sunday the 25^th of February we had the
honour of hosting the 2018 Tshwane Open Junior Tournament at Irene Country Club. The juniors
were treated like royalty with each of them receiving a commemorative Tshwane Open shirt, cap and 2 meals through the day.

We had a full field of players teeing it for a chance to get an invite to play in Tuesday’s Tshwane Open pro-am at Pretoria Country Club.

With a great score of 70 two under par, Alessio Graziani was crowned as champion of the day which got him a spot in the Pro-am. The other two players who qualified were Michael Hempel (B-div winner) and William Reyneke (u/13 winner).

At prize giving we had the privilege of having the Executive Mayor of City of Tshwane Councillor Solly Msimanga and MEC of Community and Social Development Services Councillor Ntsiki Mokhotho handing over the prizes to our winners.

A great thank you to the City of Tshwane for making this event possible and creating fond memories for our junior players.

*Photo Credit Perfect Exposure.