GNWSG Time Sheet Woodhill - 10 May 2012
 The Gauteng North Golf Union is the host of this year’s Challenge Interprovincial to be held at the Cullinan Golf Club from 6 to 11 May 2012. Our team representing us this year received their colours at the Colours Presentation held at our offices in Irene last night. We wish them a fantastic week at the tournament and all the best to Paul and the team!
From left to right: Gerry Few (President), Dot van Ryneveld (Women Vice President), Tertius vd Berg (Captain), Teaghan Moore, Aubrey Barnard, Tristen Strydom, James du Preez, Kenny Goosen, JD Oosthuizen, Philip Kruse. Behind Paul Davel – Team Manager.
 On 24 April 2012 the Colours Presentation took place for the SA Boys U15 team, who will be representing us in Somerset West from 28 April to 1 May 2012. Good luck to the team!
Photo: from L to R: Braam Roux, Otto van Buynder, Estiaan Conradie, Gareth Anderson, JP Cooper, Ross Sinclair (captain).
 SA Am Champ
Congratulations to Nobuhle Dlamini for winning this championship with a score of 139. This championship was held at Umhlali in KZN.
 On Tuesday, 10 April 2012 the colour presentation was held for the Senior IPT teams as well as the U23 team. These teams will be playing from 15-21 April in Durban and Nelspruit respectively. Good luck to all the players!
 Congratulations to Kim Williams who received the WGSA player of the year award at the WGSA AGM on the 15 April 2012.
 It all started with trials for caddies in all the major centres in South Africa. Interesting to note that 81 caddies from Gauteng North participated in their trials for only four spots.Sunday the 25th March 2012 saw sixty caddies fly, bus and taxi to Pretoria from all over South Africa. Pretoria Country Club was selected to host the caddies for this tournament.
The Senior Golfers’ Union of South Africa sponser, organize and present this tournament on an annual basis, 2012 being the sixth tournament. On Monday the 26th 36 holes of golf were played in gross as well as net competitions with individual as well as team prizes. Our competitors were in awe of the condition of our golf course as well as our facilities.
Monday evening saw the prize giving and final dinner. The individual gross winner was Khaya Jika from Fancourt in the Southern Cape with a score of 156 on a count-out against Marvin Mfene. The gross team prize was won by Western Province. Congratulations to John Mahlangu from Woodhill Country Club the nett winner pictured above.
 
On Sunday, 25 March 2012, the Mid Amateur Open/Closed Championship was played at the Bronkhorstspruit Golf Club. The course proved to be a very sturdy test of the players accuracy and patience due to the links type rough that was to be found along the fairways. Short cuts which were traditional and common to Bronkhorstspruit were completely eliminated which made the course a much tougher opponent to contend with. Congratulations to the winners!
Herewith the results:
Closed champion: Rod Tiley (143) - above, left
Runner up: Pieter Cooper (144)
3rd: Craig Collins (146)
4th: Jaquo Jacobs (146) on a count out.
Open champion: Graeme Watson (137) - above, right
Runner up: Henk Geldenhuys (142)
3rd: Rod Tiley (143)
4th: Pieter Cooper (144)
5th: Craig Collins (146)
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We have pleasure to announce the following teams who have been selected to represent Gauteng North: Congratulations to all these players and all the best at the upcoming tournaments!
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 Compleat Golfer hosted the 20th edition of its Annual Awards Dinner at Randpark Golf Club on Monday, 20 February 2012. The Gauteng North Golf Union was honoured to have two of their players receiving awards: SAGA Men's Amateur Golfer of the Year was awarded to Brandon Stone from the Els Club at Copperleaf and WGSA Ladies Amateur Golfer of the Year to Kim Williams from Centurion Country Club. Congratulations to them for a great achievement!
 
On Sunday 4 March 2012 the Under 23 Tournament, A and B divisions, were played at Silver Lakes Country Club.
The results were as follow:
Best gross score in A division: Teagan Moore (top left) with a score of 144
Runner up in A division: JC Ritchie with a score of 145
3rd position gross: Marco Loubser, score 145
4th position gross: Tertius vd Berg, score 148
Best gross score in B division: Wianco Cronje (top right, pictured with Gerry Few) with a score of 157.
Runner up: Shane Scheepers, score 159. Well done to Shane who also scored a hole in one!
Results
 
On Monday 27 February 2012, our qualifying caddy tournament took place at the Irene Country Club. A total of 70 caddies entered this tournament and had a very enjoyable day.
This year the South African Senior Golfers Society of Gauteng North is the host of the national tournament with caddies from all over the country attending. The tournament will take place at the Pretoria Country Club on Thursday 22 March 2012. All the participants will be staying at a 5 star lodge and will be once again be royally treated!
Congratulations to the following 4 caddies and two reserves who will be representing Gauteng North:
- ALBERT MAKHONJWA (Captain) – PRETORIA COUNTRY CLUB
- MOSES NCONGWENA – IRENE COUNTRY CLUB
- JOB MAKGOBOLA – AKASIA COUNTRY CLUB
- JOHN MAHLANGU – WOODHILL COUNTRY CLUB
- PATRICK KUTENG (reserve) – PRETORIA COUNTRY CLUB
- ROBERT DUBE (reserve) – WINGATE PARK COUNTRY CLUB
Central Gauteng Senior Amateur Open Championship
A huge congratulations to Philip Bierman for his 2nd place, shooting 70+77 = 147. The following players were in the top 20:
- Mellette Hendrikse 79+71 = 150 (T13th);
- Philip Viljoen 76+74 = 150 (T13th);
- Chris vd Merwe 77+75 = 152 (T18th).
There are only three remaining tournament, Boland, WP and Cape Wine lands Seniors where after the 3 Senior IPT teams will be selected.
Results
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  The Gauteng North Closed (A, B and C division) was held at the Akasia Country Club on Sunday 12 of February 2012. The course was in great condition with immaculate greens and a true test of golf.
Congratulations to our winner from Pretoria Golf Club, Tertius van den Berg (above) who won with a final score of (71,69) 140. The runner up was Marthin Scheepers from Akasia (69,72) 141, 3rd place Ernest Botha (67,75) 142 also from Akasia.
A division best nett: Wian Faber (145) from Centurion, runner-up nett: Pieter Boshoff (146) from Zwartkop.
 
Winner of the B division was Johan Erasmus (154) (above, left) from Zwartkop. B division best nett: Glenn Wienandt (141) from Irene.
Winner of the C division: Alun Morkel Zwartkop (167) (above, right). C division best nett: Francois Mong (164) from Hillside.
Well done to Ashley Cairns (Waterkloof GC) who recorded a hole in one at the 9th and Rohan de Beer (Waterkloof GC) at the 12th!
Results
 WARWICK SENIOR PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP - 4/5 Feb
See below the results of the inaugural Players Championship, with 52 of the top Seniors on the SA Order of Merit compete by invitation. This tournament was a huge success and is definitely there to stay. A special mention must be made to the Union and Philip Viljoen as it was a well run tournament with all the players from across the country confirming that they felt very special throughout the event and that they will all try their utmost to stay in the top 52 to get a repeat invitation next year.
Gauteng North had 16 players invited to play, being 31% of the field which bodes well for senior golf in the province. A huge congratulations to Philip Bierman who managed to win this illustrious event, his first in senior golf. Philip shot a very good 3 under par in round one to lead the field together with William Skinner and Henry o’ Dell from Central Gauteng. Close followers were Christo Reynecke from North West on 70, Jock Wellington from Central on 71 and Ben Kleynhans and Francois le Roux from WP on level par 72. Philip held his nerve and managed a very good 71 on day 2 to end the tournament on 4 under par 140 to win by 1 shot from the current number 1 senior golfer in the country, Francois le Roux that shot a 69 to end on 3 under par 143. Well done Philip, we are very proud of your achievement!!
Gauteng North had 7 players that finished in the top 20:
Philip Bierman: 69+71 = 140 (winner);
William Skinner: 69+74 = 143 (T4th);
Steve Joubert: 74+73 = 147 (T9th);
Christie le Roux: 75+73 = 148 (T11th);
Mellette Hendrikse: 77+72 = 149 (T14th);
Chris Delport: 76+74 = 150 (T16th);
Philip Viljoen: 78+73 = 151 (T20th).
This is now the second tournament in as many that a player from Gauteng North has triumphed and this again a very good for the province in the run-up to the IPT in April.
Results
 This last weekend’s Free State and Northern Cape Seniors played at Vaal de Grace. Gauteng North had 30 players representing the province and a huge congratulations on Mellette Hendrikse winning on a magnificent score of 70+72 = 142 (2 under par). This was Mellette’s second seniors win and I am sure not the last! Gauteng North also had 5 other players in the top 20, these being:
- Ben Kleynhans 72+72 = 144 (T4);
- William Skinner 70+75 = 145 (7th);
- Christie le Roux 73+74 = 147 (T12);
- Dicky Viljoen 73+74 = 147 (T12);
- Johan Schuurman 72+76 = 148 (16th)
Results
The next tournament is the Players Tournament on 4/5 February whereby no less than 15 players who is in the top 52 on the SA Order of Merit will represent Gauteng North. The Central Gauteng Seniors are on 18/ 19 February at Randfontein and the entries close on 3 February!
GAUTENG NORTH OPEN STROKEPLAY
PECANWOOD COUNTRY CLUB, 27 - 29 January
 
We hosted our Gauteng North Open Strokeplay tournament at the Pecanwood Country Club from the 27-29 of January 2012.
Congratulations to Toby Tree (top, left) from Worthing, England, for the winning the tournament with rounds of 69, 66, 66, 70 for a 17-under-par total score of 271. The runner up was Zander Lombard (2nd photo, left) from Gauteng North (Woodhill Country Club) scoring 66, 68, 68, 70 for a 15-under-par total score of 273, and Brandon Stone (2nd photo, right) also from Gauteng North (The Els Club) with 67,72,67,69 for -13 under-par total of 275.
Giulio Castagnara, who formed part of the Italian team, ended in 4th position on 276, Haydn Porteous from Central Gauteng 5th on 277.
For a full report on all the players' results please see "results" link below.
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The Freestate and Northern Cape Senior Open Championship took place on 27-28 January 2012 at the Vaal de Grace Country Club. We would like to congratulate Mellette Hendrikse from the Akasia Country Club for winning the tournament with a total score of (70, 72) 142.
Congratulations to James du Preez from Pretoria Country Club who has been selected to play in the South African Golf Association Juniors team against the SAGDB and a team from Scotland. This match will take place on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at Randpark Golf Club. The match will be foursomes in the morning and single matchplay in the afternoon. We wish them all the best.
 The GN Junior Girls Open tournament took place at Zwartkop Country Club on Sunday, 22 January 2012. The winner was Carrie Park (142), runner-up Samantha Barber (146) with Magda Kruger (147) in 3rd place. Best net winner was Jhanelle Strydom (135), runner-up nett Natasha Carlsson and 3rd nett winner Kelly Erasmus. The winner of the B division was Cara Ford. Well done to all the girls!
From left: Dot van Ryneveld (GN vice-president), Carrie Park, Karin Olivant (Vice-President Women’s Golf SA)
GN SENIOR STROKEPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP - WATERKLOOF GC, 14 -15 January
The GN Senior Open and Closed tournament was held at Waterkloof Golf Club, 14-15 January 2012. The winner of the Open tournament was Gavin van Aswegen (146), with runner-up Philip Viljoen (149), in 3rd place Laurence Franklin (150). The winner of the Closed division was Philip Viljoen, runner-up Phillip Bierman (150). The Super Senior winner was Tim Hewan (150). The best net winner in the Open was Mohapi Molaka (144), and best net in the Closed, Leon Scheepers (146). Freek Kruger scored his first hole-in-one.
Congratulations to all these players!
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