Mar 20, 2018 | Features, Player Profile
Peter Karmis is South Africa’s ‘Mr 59’. He speaks in staccato phrases. And he thinks in between them. And he punctuates them with interesting insights – insights into himself and the game. He won the 2009 Lombard Insurance Classic with a closing 13-under-par 59 at...
Feb 10, 2018 | Features, Player Profile
Take a look at JC Ritchie’s 2017 record, and you’d be forgiven for thinking his season was a bust: After his win in the Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open in April, eight missed cuts, and a next-best of a share of 10th doesn’t suggest a career that’s going places. He was...
Oct 11, 2017 | Features, Player Profile
When Smokey Robinson sang on Tears of a Clown, ‘Don’t let my glad expression give you the wrong impression,’ he might have been singing about Doug McGuigan, one of the most jovial players on the Sunshine Tour. McGuigan has reason to be jovial, with two wins on...
Sep 8, 2017 | Features, Player Profile
In the madness that follows a win in any tournament – and is magnified when it happens in an African one – Riekus Nortje didn’t even have a chance to call anyone to share in his triumph after the Mopani Redpath Zambia Open. But the tournament director, who comes from...
Aug 10, 2017 | Features, Player Profile
He’s going back to school, because that’s where Ruan de Smidt first shone. Qualifying School, that is, and this time it will be on the European Tour. The 27-year-old who plays out of Krugersdorp Golf Club has won four times on the Sunshine Tour, and, when pressed to...
