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March 2, 2017

Brilliant Buhai comes up trumps at Sun City

Ashleigh Buhai sealed the her sixth Sunshine Ladies Tour title – and second this season – with a great par-save at the 54th hole of the Sun International Ladies Challenge at Sun City on Thursday. The Edenvale golfer chipped out of the sticky rough to the back of the green at the last hole of the […]


Sunshine Ladies Tour set for climax at Ladies Joburg Open

 The Sunshine Tour and Sunshine Ladies Tour sponsors and partners have set the cat among the pigeons with a momentous prize money hike for the Ladies Joburg Open, which tees off at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club from 5-7 March. The dust barely settled on Darren Fichardt’s tremendous triumph in the Joburg Open when […]


March 1, 2017

Lewthwaite gives chase at Sun City

Bonita Bredenhann from Namibia continued to shine in the Sun International Ladies Challenge, but Serengeti golfer Lejan Lewthwaite stayed in her shadow as action wrapped up Tuesday’s second round at the Sun City Resort. Bredenhann and Cecilie Lundgreen from Norway led the first round at six under, but the big-hitting Namibian was the only one […]


February 28, 2017

Lost City serves up a birdie banquet

The Sun International Ladies Challenge saw a fantastically high standard of golf as no less than 15 players dipped into red figures during the opening round of the R200 000 championship at Sun City. An abundance of more than 200mm of rain over the last week rendered the Gary Player-designed layout pretty defenceless and offered the […]


February 27, 2017

Strauss wary of daunting defence at Sun City

Bertine Strauss expects a tough title defence when she starts the R200 000 Sun International Ladies Challenge at Sun City on Tuesday. The Investec Property player admits that she is not enjoying the kind of form that helped her to three successive victories in her rookie season last year. However, vivid memories of last year’s come-from-behind […]


Pace fights back in Thailand

PATTAYA, Thailand (26 February 2017) – South Africa’s Lee-Anne Pace rebounded with an eagle and two birdies in the final round as Amy Yang weaved her way to tournament record winning total of 22-under-par 266 in the Honda LPGA Thailand on Sunday. The South-Korean fired a four-under-par 68 in the weather-interrupted event at the Siam […]


February 23, 2017

Play-off perfection from Park at Glendower

Rory McIlroy would have given anything to match the heroics of Carrie Park and Nobuhle Dlamini at Glendower’s par four 18th hole where he lost in a play-off to England’s Graeme Storm in the men’s South African Open in January. Park from South Korea and Swaziland’s Dlamini Nobuhle both spectacularly birdied the 18th in regulation […]