SOUTH AFRICANS NAME JUNIOR LINE-UP AGAINST SCOTS NEXT WEEK
FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLF ASSOCIATION WEBSITE
A ten-strong junior South African invitational team will take on Scotland in a one day friendly match at Randpark Club in Johannesburg next Thursday (February 24), the South African Golf Association (SAGA) announced today.
The players selected to represent the invitational team, who are all amateur golfers of 18 years or younger, as at the beginning of the year, are:
Drikus Bruyns (Boland) (Captain)
Shane Allen (Central Gauteng)
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Ekurhuleni)
Conway Kunneke (Gauteng North)
Victor Lange (Central Gauteng)
Zander Lombard (Gauteng North)
Dylan Raubenheimer (Western Province)
Martin Rohwer (Kwazulu Natal)
Armandt Scholtz (Boland)
Combrinck Smit (Kwazulu Natal).
The manager is Johan Scholtz who is also the Co-ordinator for Junior Golf for the SAGA.
The format of the competition is five foursomes matches in the morning followed by ten singles matches, all match-play.
Each match carries one point for a win and half a point if halved. The team scoring the most points wins.
"The purpose of the match is to provide a younger players with an opportunity to play against some top international competition and thereby gain valuable experience. At the same time it will provide our visiting Scottish Team with an opportunity to get some match practice in before our Test Match early in March," said Colin Burger of the SAGA.
PROTEA TEAM NAMED FOR TWO-DAY TEST MATCH v SCOTS
Earlier, the South African Golf Association announced a 10-man Protea team to play Scotland in an amateur golf test match taking place over two days, starting on Tuesday, March 8, at Leopard Creek Country Club near Malalane in Mpumalanga.
The team is:
Ryan Dreyer (Central Gauteng) (Captain)
Coenie Bester (Mpumalanga)
C J du Plessis (Limpopo)
Hendre Cilliers (Gauteng North)
Danny Hammond (Central Gauteng)
Jared Harvey (Kwazulu Natal)
Riekus Nortje (Southern Cape)
Haydn Porteous (Central Gauteng)
Ruan de Smidt (Central Gauteng)
Brandon Stone (Gauteng North).
Team Manager
Colin Burger, president of the SAGA.
There are two new caps to the team, winning national colours for the first time. They are 21-year-old Hendre Cilliers and 16-year-old Haydn Porteous.
“Last year we gave Scotland a thumping when we played an eight-man team also at Leopard Creek,” said Colin Burger. “However that was not a full strength Scottish side, which is the case this year. It is going to be a different ball game this time round, as seen by the individual performances of the Scottish players who participated in our South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship which concluded on Friday.”
David Law, Scotland, led the field, in the 72 hole Championship, from the outset with an eight under par 64, the lowest round of the Championship. He eventually lost in a play off to 22-year-old local lad Jared Harvey. Eight Scottish players finished in the top 25 places, three in the top ten.
The Scottish team is:
Jordan Findlay
Scott Gibson
Ross Kellett
David Law
Kris Nicol
Phillip McLean
Greg Paterson
Michael Stewart
Paul Schields
James White.
Team manager
Ian Rae.
Notable recent performances amongst those in the visiting team are Michael Stewart winner of the Scottish Amateur, Kris Nicol, runner-up in the Lytham Trophy, Ross Kellett won the Tennant Cup and James White the current holder of the Sutherland Chalice.
The Scottish team are out in South Africa at the invitation of South African business man Johann Rupert.
“We hope to strengthen the relationship between the SAGA and the Scottish Golf Union in the future,” said Colin Burger. “We are in discussions in which both governing bodies are considering an annual test match, on a home and away basis, like we currently do with France.”
But considerations around future matters will not be upper most in Burger’s mind. He will be looking to prepare his team for a better showing than that against the French. Two weeks back a visiting eight man French Team beat the Proteas convincingly.
“We want to erase the memories of that test match through a solid performance against Scotland,” is how Burger explained the task at hand.
With the Sanlam South African Amateur Championship coming up in two weeks, a lot of golf is on the horizon for these 20 players in preparation of what looks to be two evenly matched teams.
The two day test match will be played at the prestigious Leopard Creek Country Club, the home of the Alfred Dunhill Championship, a co-sanctioned professional golf tournament on both the Sunshine and European Tours.
The format will be five foursomes matches in the morning of the first day, followed in the afternoon by ten singles matches. On day two the same format will be played, as for day one, except in the morning the two teams play five better-ball matches.
Each match carries one point for a win, half if the match is halved. The team recording the most points wins the test.
A ten-strong junior South African invitational team will take on Scotland in a one day friendly match at Randpark Club in Johannesburg next Thursday (February 24), the South African Golf Association (SAGA) announced today.
The players selected to represent the invitational team, who are all amateur golfers of 18 years or younger, as at the beginning of the year, are:
Drikus Bruyns (Boland) (Captain)
Shane Allen (Central Gauteng)
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Ekurhuleni)
Conway Kunneke (Gauteng North)
Victor Lange (Central Gauteng)
Zander Lombard (Gauteng North)
Dylan Raubenheimer (Western Province)
Martin Rohwer (Kwazulu Natal)
Armandt Scholtz (Boland)
Combrinck Smit (Kwazulu Natal).
The manager is Johan Scholtz who is also the Co-ordinator for Junior Golf for the SAGA.
The format of the competition is five foursomes matches in the morning followed by ten singles matches, all match-play.
Each match carries one point for a win and half a point if halved. The team scoring the most points wins.
"The purpose of the match is to provide a younger players with an opportunity to play against some top international competition and thereby gain valuable experience. At the same time it will provide our visiting Scottish Team with an opportunity to get some match practice in before our Test Match early in March," said Colin Burger of the SAGA.
PROTEA TEAM NAMED FOR TWO-DAY TEST MATCH v SCOTS
Earlier, the South African Golf Association announced a 10-man Protea team to play Scotland in an amateur golf test match taking place over two days, starting on Tuesday, March 8, at Leopard Creek Country Club near Malalane in Mpumalanga.
The team is:
Ryan Dreyer (Central Gauteng) (Captain)
Coenie Bester (Mpumalanga)
C J du Plessis (Limpopo)
Hendre Cilliers (Gauteng North)
Danny Hammond (Central Gauteng)
Jared Harvey (Kwazulu Natal)
Riekus Nortje (Southern Cape)
Haydn Porteous (Central Gauteng)
Ruan de Smidt (Central Gauteng)
Brandon Stone (Gauteng North).
Team Manager
Colin Burger, president of the SAGA.
There are two new caps to the team, winning national colours for the first time. They are 21-year-old Hendre Cilliers and 16-year-old Haydn Porteous.
“Last year we gave Scotland a thumping when we played an eight-man team also at Leopard Creek,” said Colin Burger. “However that was not a full strength Scottish side, which is the case this year. It is going to be a different ball game this time round, as seen by the individual performances of the Scottish players who participated in our South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship which concluded on Friday.”
David Law, Scotland, led the field, in the 72 hole Championship, from the outset with an eight under par 64, the lowest round of the Championship. He eventually lost in a play off to 22-year-old local lad Jared Harvey. Eight Scottish players finished in the top 25 places, three in the top ten.
The Scottish team is:
Jordan Findlay
Scott Gibson
Ross Kellett
David Law
Kris Nicol
Phillip McLean
Greg Paterson
Michael Stewart
Paul Schields
James White.
Team manager
Ian Rae.
Notable recent performances amongst those in the visiting team are Michael Stewart winner of the Scottish Amateur, Kris Nicol, runner-up in the Lytham Trophy, Ross Kellett won the Tennant Cup and James White the current holder of the Sutherland Chalice.
The Scottish team are out in South Africa at the invitation of South African business man Johann Rupert.
“We hope to strengthen the relationship between the SAGA and the Scottish Golf Union in the future,” said Colin Burger. “We are in discussions in which both governing bodies are considering an annual test match, on a home and away basis, like we currently do with France.”
But considerations around future matters will not be upper most in Burger’s mind. He will be looking to prepare his team for a better showing than that against the French. Two weeks back a visiting eight man French Team beat the Proteas convincingly.
“We want to erase the memories of that test match through a solid performance against Scotland,” is how Burger explained the task at hand.
With the Sanlam South African Amateur Championship coming up in two weeks, a lot of golf is on the horizon for these 20 players in preparation of what looks to be two evenly matched teams.
The two day test match will be played at the prestigious Leopard Creek Country Club, the home of the Alfred Dunhill Championship, a co-sanctioned professional golf tournament on both the Sunshine and European Tours.
The format will be five foursomes matches in the morning of the first day, followed in the afternoon by ten singles matches. On day two the same format will be played, as for day one, except in the morning the two teams play five better-ball matches.
Each match carries one point for a win, half if the match is halved. The team recording the most points wins the test.
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