The two-year qualification process for golf’s return to the Olympic Games for the first time in 112 years has been completed with the publication today of the Final Olympic Golf Rankings. Below are the top 15 qualifiers for the Women’s Competition, who could be lining it up with South Africa’s Paula Reto and Ashleigh Simon […]

American Brittany Lang won her first major title at the US Women’s Open in a play-off with Anna Nordqvist after the Swede was given a two-stroke penalty. Nordqvist was penalised for touching sand in a bunker with her club on the second hole of a three-hole aggregate play-off with Lang, 30, at CordeValle. USGA officials […]

South Africa’s top ranked Lee-Anne Pace has withdrawn herself from consideration for the South African Olympic Golf Team for this year’s Games in Rio. Herewith her statement from Lee-Anne Pace regarding 2016 Olympics “I have advised South African Golf Association, South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, Mr Gary Player and Sunshine Ladies Tour that I […]

South Africa’s Ashleigh Simon capitalized on a resurgence in form to grab a share of fourth on day one of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Washington, Seattle. Simon fired a one-under-par 70 at the Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish to finish three off the pace in Thursday’s first round. The 27-year-old Johannesburg golfer trails by […]

South Africa’s Ashleigh Simon recorded a season’s best tie for 22nd in the Shoprite LPGA Classic in New Jersey on Sunday to take some great form into the season’s second Major – the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship – this week. She opened with an even-par 71 at the Stockton Seaview Golf Club, while fellow South […]

South Africa’s Paula Reto fired an opening seven-under-par 64 to grab a share of the three-way tie at the top of the ShopRite LPGA Classic, presented by Acer, in New Jersey on Friday. The country’s second highest ranked player tied for pole position with defending champion Anna Nordqvist and 2010 champion Ai Miyazato at the […]