GNGU had the privilege of hosting the 2019 Northern Provinces Scratch League Finals at Silver Lakes Golf and Wildlife Estate on the 27th and 28th of July.

The teams competing were Silver Lakes Golf and Wildlife Estate, Benoni Country Club, Royal Johannesburg and Kensington, Potchefstroom Golf Club, Polokwane Golf Club and Walker Park Golf Club. The host team made good use of the home ground advantage and managed to beat all 5 teams. For full results – CLICK HERE

Thank you to the Silver Lakes staff and management for hosting a wonderful event and to their members for giving up their course for the weekend.

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 2019 GNGU Women’s Open and Bronze Champs was held 7 & 8 July at Centurion Country Club.  The players braved frozen greens and icy wind both mornings, and there was some very impressive golf played in all divisions to make for exciting finishes.  Congratulations to Caitlyn MacNab who finished on 217 to win the A Division, Nelia Swanepoel on 269 who won the B Division and Rita Teka who won the C Division on 63 points.

Thank you to the players for entering, and especially Centurion Country Club for giving up their beautiful course and their fantastic hospitality.

A huge thank you to the Reunion Golf Association, who bring some of their sponsors on board for this event to give one lucky player a trip to Reunion.  The following is included in the prize – flights courtesy Air Austral, accommodation courtesy Boucan Canot, excursions courtesy Reunitours.  We thank the Reunion Island Tourism Board and Reunion golf association for their continuous support.

For A & B Div results, CLICK HERE
For C Div results, CLICK HERE
For more information on Reunion Island CLICK HERE

Learn more about Reunion Island – go to https://en.reunion.fr

Congratulations to the GolfRSA junior team of Martin Vorster, Sam Simpson, Casey Jarvis and Christo Lamprecht jnr who have won the 2019 Toyota Junior Golf World Cup.  It has been 18 years since South Africa last lifted this trophy and we are extremely proud of this achievement.  CLICK HERE for all the results.

The 2019 Mid Amateur and Senior Closed was held at Zwartkop Country Club.
This 36 hole tournament, played over 2 days is always closely contested with the best of the local mid amateur and senior golfers ending.  The seniors proved to be coming out tops with Derik Piek and Neil Goosen both going into round 2 on -2, a 1 shot lead over leading mid amateur Menno Malherbe.  However an excellent final round of -5 and overall score of -2 for the tournament gave Wingate Park CC’s Nicholas Geerts the title of 2019 GNGU Mid Amateur Closed Champion.  Neil Goosen took his home ground advantage, finishing with 3 birdies in a row to take the Senior Closed trophy, finishing on level Par for the tournament.

We would like to thank all players who participated, as well as Zwartkop CC management, staff and members.

For full results CLICK HERE