Unflappable Vorster on course for SA Stroke Play glory
Martin Vorster and Kieron van Wyk shone the brightest at Randpark Club on moving day in the South African Stroke Play Championship …
Vorster lights up Firethorn to lead SA Stroke Play
Mossel Bay’s Martin Vorster stepped up his bid to win the South African Stroke Play title in Tuesday’s second round at Randpark Club …
Goldhill goes low at Randpark
Oliver Goldhill led a birdie barrage on the opening day of the South African Stroke Play Championship at Randpark Club after six days of unremitting rain rendered the ordinarily testing Firethorn Course defenceless …
Stone’s R5-million for a hot back nine on Sunday
BRANDON Stone tied for fourth in the European Tour’s Joburg Open right here at Randpark in November and the popular South African bettered this on Sunday in the tour’s Dubai Desert Classic with second place all on his own …
Two Oldtimers and Two Young Stars
WE were two old codgers – Jeremy and me – in our seventies playing in one of Randpark’s midweek senior competitions. We were supposed to be a fourball but one of the players couldn’t make it and another cried off ill just before teeing off …
GolfRSA poised for 2021 South African Swing
Excitement is building as South Africa’s top amateur talents gear up for the annual South African Swing, which tees off in February. “It is disappointing that, due to the circumstances surrounding the worldwide pandemic and the restrictions imposed by countries abroad on travel to South Africa …
Randpark’s Massimo Mbetse is big on brains and birdies
On the golf course he can score in the 60s and in the classroom he shoots in the 90s. We’re talking about 21-year-old Massimo Mbetse who is a member at Randpark but is in his third year studying for a Business Marketing degree …
A Creepy Creek at Firethorn
If you are not observant, you will miss it. If you are discerning, you will see it. Either way, the creepy creek around the Firethorn course of the Randpark Golf Club will have an impact on your game …
Randpark 80 years old and getting better all the time
OUR fantastic Randpark Club is 80 years old this year and, most will agree, it has in that time become one of the top golf clubs in the country. The best? Maybe we’re biased but, seriously, we might well be the best …
Danish delight on fabulous Firethorn
IT ALL came down to a classic “back nine on Sunday duel” and Denmark’s Joachim B Hansen fought brilliantly to come from behind to edge out young playing partner Wilco Nienaber and win the Joburg Open on Randpark’s outstanding Firethorn course.
Hansen posted a bogey-free, four-under-par 67 following earlier rounds of 66, 68 and 64 for a 19-under-par 265 aggregate. Nienaber closed with bogeys at 17 and 18, his only dropped shots of the day, on his way to a 70 and second place on 267, with Wilco’s fellow South African Shaun Norris shooting a superb 66 to claim third spot on 268 …
Joburg Open: Wonderboy Wilco: Big drives, big putts, big talent
JOBURG Open 54-hole leader Wilco Nienaber has led the long driving stats on the European Tour this year, regularly hitting booming tee-shots over 400 yards. In round two in the Joburg Open on Randpark’s Firethorn course on Friday he averaged a mammoth 416 yards with his “bombs”.
The Free State flier carded a four-under-par 67 Saturday and is on 16-under-par 197 for the tournament, just one ahead of Denmark’s Joachim B Hansen, who posted a day’s best seven-under 64 to be on 198 …
Birdies aplenty at fabulous Firethorn as Blaauw leads Joburg Open
JACQUES Blaauw compiled a brilliant eight-under-par 63 on Firethorn in the second round of the Joburg Open to take the halfway lead on Friday on 13-under-par 129.
It was technically a provisional lead as a few players were unable to finish their rounds because of a weather delay but no-one was in a position to catch Blaauw.
The 34-year-old who plays out of the Els Club, Copperleaf, stormed home in just 31 shots on the back nine on a stormy day after play was suspended for a lengthy spell in mid-afternoon because of a thunderstorm …
Wilco and his fantastic 439-yard Joburg Open drive
CALL it simply ‘The 439 Drive’ and perhaps, in terms of great moments in South Africa sport, it will be remembered as gloriously outrageous as was ‘The 438 Game’ when South Africa’s cricketers scored a mammoth 438 runs to beat Australia’s daunting 434 total to win the 2006 ODI at the Wanderers to clinch the series for the home side.
On Thursday in the first round of golf’s Joburg Open at Randpark, Wilco Nienaber hit a monster – unbelievable actually – 439-yard drive on the 597-yard, par-5 fourth hole …
Michael out to hit hot ‘home run’ on Firethorn in Joburg Open
GRIP-it-and-rip Anthony Michael will be carrying Randpark’s hopes in this week’s Joburg Open, and knows that a win would be “life-changing” for him.
In his 11-year stint as a tournament professional Michael has played well enough to earn R5,3-million in prize-money with his best finish in a European Tour event co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour being third place in the 2016 Tshwane Open …
The Masters Then and Now
THE Joburg Open starts right here at Randpark next week but in the meantime it’s the Masters this week in America with seven South Africans in the line-up. And – on the subject of the annual Augusta National showpiece – it was 42 years ago that, coincidentally, a 42-year-old Gary Player wowed the golf world by winning his third Green Jacket following an absolutely storming finish to the Championship.