Congratulations to the following players who have been selected to represent Gauteng North at the upcoming Super Senior Inter Provincial to be held at Pezula Golf Club from 4 – 8 December 2017
Dirk Swanevelder Woodhill CC
Giel van Wyk Wingate Park CC
Philip Viljoen Pretoria CC
Adrian Kriel Wingate Park CC
Rinus van Niekerk Wingate Park CC
Etienne Groenewald Centurion CC
The team will be managed by Dirk Swanevelder
Congratulations to the following players who have been selected to represent Gauteng North in the Under 19 Inter Provincial Tournament taking place at East London Golf Club from 11 – 16 December.
Otto van Buynder Blue Valley Golf Estate
Werner Deyzel Woodhill Country Club
Keegan Mclachlan Silver Lakes Golf Estate
Stals Swart Pretoria Country Club
Nicholas Souranis Centurion Country Club
Murad Hoosen The Els Club
Boipelo Raphiri Akasia Country Club
Dino Capazario Silver Lakes Golf Estate
The team will be managed by Craig Collins.
We wish the team all the best for the tournament ahead and are sure you will fly the GN flag high.
When it comes to winning, no-one in South Africa’s amateur golfing fraternity can hold a candle to Wilco Nienaber this season.
The 17-year-old Free State junior scored some valuable world amateur golf ranking points with his ninth visit to the winner’s circle in the weather-reduced Liberty GNGU Silver Salver, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, at Irene Country Club on Sunday.
The Bloemfontein golfer won by two points, in spite of a rather average start.
“I scored four points in the Modified Stableford format in the first round and trailed by eight points, but six points in the second round got me within five of Daniel Nduva from Kenya,” Nienaber said. “I racked up eight birdies in the third round, worth 16 points, to take the lead on 22 points.”
Nienaber headed into the final round with a two point lead over South Africa’s top ranked Jayden Schaper. Nduva was four points off the pace in a tie for third with Ruhan van Dijk (who had his first hole in one in round 3 on the 16th hole) from Ekurhuleni and Gauteng North’s James du Preez.
“A huge lightning storm was just about to hit. They suspended play but the organisers announced after 45 minutes that they were reducing the tournament to 54 holes because the storm wouldn’t pass in time for us to finish.”
“It was a nice change from the usual stroke play,” he said. “You had to get your head around the scoring format, but it was a lot of fun. Par was zero, birdie worth two points and a bogey was minus one. So, if you went par-bogey-birdie, you gained a point. The key was keeping a clean card.”
Johan Struwig, President of GNGU, made special mention of Union supporters Liberty, for their continued support. He also high-lighted PriceWaterhouseCoopers involvement in the Silver Salver, who are tournament sponsors for this specific event. Without their support, the tournament ‘spoils’ and extras would not be possible. Irene Country Club members, Executive and staff were thanked for their support and giving up their course over the weekend to host this event. Being the first year as a ranking tournament, the Executive were looking forward to growing this tournament and hosting a full field in future years.
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(Press report credit – Lali Stander)
The 2017 Silver Salver is underway this weekend at Irene Country Club.
For live scoring CLICK HERE
A reminder that the format of this event is Modified Stableford. +8 points are awarded for an albatros, +5 for an eagle, +2 for a birdie, 0 for par, -1 for bogey and -3 for double bogey or worse. Please note the live scoring is based on average points per hole – not on total points. Once all players have completed 18 holes the leaderboard will reflect the leaders based on their points after the full 18 holes.
Thank you to tournament sponsors PriceWaterhouseCoopers and to Liberty for their continued support.
Following the decision to open up all non-ranking tournaments to mixed gender, the 2017 Liberty Teams of 2 showed a great turnout of 44 pairs at Woodhill Country Club. The format of Betterball in the morning and Foursomes in the afternoon can be extremely fun and competitive, however unfortunately for the second year in a row the second round had to be called off due to lightning.
With 2 teams finishing the first 18 on a nett of 62. Mid Amateur Provincial players Danie Viljoen and Alex van Heerden were counted out, which meant the trophy was awarded home ground players to Ivan Paiva and Kenneth Smith. Pictured above are the pair with Vice President, Thea Nel.
For full results CLICK HERE
Congratulations to the following players who have been selected to represent GNGU at the upcoming Mid Amateur Inter Provincial, to be held at Oubaai 9 – 13 October.
Louis Jonck Irene CC
Gustav Verster Irene CC
Leonard Loxton Silver Lakes Golf Estate
Myburgh van Rooyen Wingate Park CC
Alex van Heerden Wingate Park CC
Jauqo Jacobs Irene CC
Menno Malherbe Wingate Park CC
Danie Viljoen Silver Lakes Golf Estate
The team will be managed by Gerry Few.
We wish them the best of luck at the tournament and look forward to seeing them bring home the trophy!
Following the resignation of Rohan de Beer, the Union is looking to appoint an Assistant Golf Administrator.
CLICK HERE for details.
We thank Rohan for his invaluable commitment and service to GNGU and wish him and his family all the best!