Aug 7, 2024 | Big Easy Tour, Featured
Warwick Purchase’s first-ever win – both as a professional and as an amateur – came in some dramatic fashion at Glenvista Country Club on Wednesday. On a tournament total of seven-under-par 209, Purchase, Ulrich van den Berg and Leon Vorster tied for the top spot,...
Aug 6, 2024 | Big Easy Tour, Featured
Vaughn van Deventer shrugged off pain from a spider bite and soldiered to a four-under-par 68 in round two of the Betway Big Easy Tour’s third tournament this season, taking a one-shot lead on six-under in the process. Bitten by a spider in Ballito a few days before...
Aug 6, 2024 | Featured, Features, Rankings
Barend Botha might not be a familiar name to South African golf fans, but his second win in as many starts on the PGA Tour Americas last week secured him a spectacular 334-place rise on the latest Official World Golf Ranking list. Botha made his debut at the Bromont...
Aug 5, 2024 | Big Easy Tour, Featured
Stellenbosch Golf Club’s Keenan Davidse says he is slowly regaining his confidence and if his opening round of 67 in the third tournament of the Betway Big Easy Tour event at Glenvista Country Club is anything to go by, he might be edging closer to his best. He is...
Aug 5, 2024 | Featured, South Africans abroad
Barend Botha claimed his second professional victory in back-to-back weeks at the BioSteel Championship after carding a final round seven-under 63. Botha moves up to number four in the Fortinet Cup points list after the victory, after sitting at T219 prior to the...
Aug 5, 2024 | Featured, South Africans abroad
While Erik van Rooyen was ‘bummed’ by a couple of mistakes on Sunday, he relished his first Olympic experience in Paris and, with his 17th place finish, said he was eagerly awaiting the 2028 Games set for Los Angeles. Van Rooyen had no sooner corrected things from his...
