Positive advice from the great Gary Player to our boys in the PGA, and us Randpark members!
AFTER the disruptions to the international golf schedule because of the pandemic and the cancellation of last month’s British Open, this week sees the first Major of the year taking place – the US PGA Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco. Technically South Africa has six players in the line-up – Louis Oosthuizen, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Erik van Rooyen, Charl Schwartzel, Dylan Frittelli and Shaun Norris. Branden Grace was also …
Ladies Captain Debbie Gillings is ‘giving back’
“I’m certainly not the shy, quiet type,” says Debbie Gillings. Which is just as well because anyone who holds down the position of club captain of a golf club needs to be a people’s person, able to communicate well verbally with fellow members in addition to being a hard-working, good organiser and administrator …
Down Golf’s Memory Lane – St Andrews, July 2000
This week, exactly 20 years ago at St Andrews, a 30-year-old Ernie Els was trying hard to fight back the tears after he had holed his final putt for a 69 and a 277 total in that year’s Open Championship. I was covering the event for Independent Newspapers and Ernie asked me to join him on the short ride back to the Old Course Hotel where he was staying …
Club Captain Derek McGowan: A ‘Phenomenal’ Guy
DEREK McGowan can’t hide his enthusiasm when talking about Randpark. “It’s a phenomenal club with two phenomenal golf courses,” he says. “There’s so much right about it – be it, in Francois, the best club manager in the country, be it the people in charge of the finances, be it the very special family atmosphere, be it management and the …
Get Active Randpark : It’s not only about golf at our “jewel” of a club
Talk about being happy and healthy, let us introduce you to Powerblast’s Warren McCann – if you don’t know this popular guy already – who runs the Health and Wellness gym which is based at the club. Warren in his day – and we’re talking 1988 to 1995 – was a Springbok sprinter …
“I was born in a bunker!”
“I WAS born in a bunker!” I’ve heard him say it before and I’m sure the Big Easy would have said it again – if only to himself – after the final hole of the Hoag Classic on the PGA Tour Champions on Sunday …
Praise for back nine champ Erwee Botha, and Firethorn’s par-3 17th hole!
When Branden Grace won the South African Open at Randpark in January his aggregate was 21-under-par 263 with both Bushwillow and Firethorn used for the tournament and both reduced from par-72s to par-71 …
Rambo’s birdie bonanza earning him big money
Christiaan Bezuidenhout the birdie putts are dropping at such a fast and furious pace that it’s resulted in him not only enjoying a rapid rise in the world rankings, but a bank balance that is soaring to heady heights and will further climb in Mexico this week …
Record-breaking Jarvis triumphs in SA Stroke Play
Casey Jarvis etched his name into the record books as the youngest winner in South African Stroke Play Championship history when he claimed the prestigious title in dominant fashion at Randpark Golf Club on Thursday …
Jarvis powers to commanding lead in SA Stroke Play
Casey Jarvis continued his love affair with the Firethorn Course at Randpark Golf Club as he carded a second-round 65 to surge into a two-shot lead on day two of the South African Stroke Play Championship on Tuesday …
Jarvis on song at SA Stroke Play Champs
Casey Jarvis continued his love affair with the Firethorn Course at Randpark Golf Club as he carded a second-round 65 to surge into a two-shot lead on day two of the South African Stroke Play Championship on Tuesday …
Wilson leads logjam at SA Stroke Play
Scotsman James Wilson fired some exceptional approach shots and yielded a hot putter to fire a stunning eight-under-par 64 for the first round lead in the South African Stroke Play Championship at Randpark Golf Club on Monday …
Not so bright start, then no load-shedding from Els
Ernie Els didn’t get off to a great start in his first round as a rookie on the PGA Tour Champions, shooting a level par 72 …
Extended Tournament Highlights | 2020 South African Open
Credit : Official YouTube channel of the European Tour.
Amazing Grace wins SA Open
Amazing Grace. There are no other words to describe Branden Grace’s remarkable come-from-behind victory in the South African Open hosted by the City of Joburg at Randpark Sunday …