Hendler defies illness to shoot for the top at ERPM

May 11, 2021 | Featured

Ricky Hendler overcame food poisoning and made the biggest move on moving day of the Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour Chase to the Sunshine Tour #25, signing for a bogey-free 66 which catapulted him to the top of the leaderboard at 11-under-par and one shot clear at ERPM...

Inspired McClatchie in a 4-way share of lead at ERPM

May 10, 2021 | Featured

Former GolfRSA squad member Kyle McClatchie played himself into a four-way share of the lead on day one of the Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour Chase to the Sunshine Tour #25, courtesy of an eventful six-under-par 66 round at ERPM Golf Club, and he says it was all inspired...

Champagne weekend for SA golf sees 10 players inside top 100

May 10, 2021 | Featured, Rankings

Garrick Higgo stole the headlines with his third European Tour title at the weekend, and he marched to within one of the world’s top 50 as he climbed to 51st in the latest Official World Golf Ranking list. Finishing in a share of fourth behind Higgo after a victory of...

Els finishes 4th in year’s 1st senior major championship

May 10, 2021 | Featured, South Africans abroad

Ernie Els fired the best closing round of the year’s first senior major championship on Sunday as his closing six-under-par 66 took him to a share of fourth in the Regions Tradition in Birmingham, Alabama. He finished on 11-under-par for the week, seven strokes out of...

Ace Higgo in Canary Island romp for 3rd European Tour win

May 9, 2021 | Featured, South Africans abroad

Garrick Higgo aced the seventh hole on Sunday on his way to his second European Tour title in three weeks as he romped to a six-stroke victory in the Canary Islands Championship on the European Tour. He holed his tee shot on the 158-metre par-three seventh to simply...

Nienaber gets his win at Fancourt despite wayward drives

May 9, 2021 | Featured, Sunshine Tour

Wilco Nienaber battled to find an accurate drive in the play-off on Sunday in the Sunshine Tour’s and Challenge Tour’s Dimension Data Pro-Am on the Montagu course at Fancourt, and, in the end, that was not enough to stop him pulling off his maiden professional...