Victory for Ekurhuleni

Ekurhuleni recently won the A-division A-2 section of the Women’s Inter-Provincial Championships at Silver Lakes Golf and Wildlife Estate when they beat KwaZulu-Natal on a games count-out.

Both teams had five points following a draw and two wins, but the Ekurhuleni foursome of Kyra van Kan, Lisa Coetser, Candice Wort and Tayla Howroyd accumulated 13.5 games points in the matches against KwaZulu-Natal, Boland and Eastern Province and won by 1.5 games points.

Gauteng North rallied to win their first Women’s Inter-Provincial title since 2013 when they edged defending champions Western Province in the final round of matches.

After a narrow 1.5–2.5 loss to Central Gauteng in the opening round, the Daisies routed Southern Cape 5–1 in the second round to reignite their title hopes.

Having drawn the morning foursomes session Zane Kleynhans, who ended the week a perfect six points from six, banked the early point for the Daisies when she beat Kelly Erasmus 6 & 4.

Erica Chen clawed back a point for Western Province when she knocked out Holly Lau 4 & 2.

Rookie Isabella Ferreira was 1-down playing the last against Vicki Traut, but the 18-year-old rookie held her nerve and drained a long-range putt for birdie to halve with the Province skipper.

With the score at 2.5-all, the fate of the match was in the hands of Gauteng North captain Bronwyn Doeg and Bobbi Brown.

The game between the recent GolfRSA Proteas teammates was tightly contested. Doeg was 3-up through 12 holes, but Brown rallied to win the 14th and 17th holes.

Fifteen-year-old Kleynhans topped the most valued players’ list with her perfect score. Central Gauteng rookie Shannon Berry shared second with Doeg on five points, edging out Chen from Western Province by half a point.

Traut rounded out the top five with four points.

At the start of the week, Western Province A and B had a double reason to celebrate when the two teams scooped victories in the A- and B-division stroke play seeding round respectively.

Western Province A finished on 384, four shots ahead of Gauteng North A in the A-division qualifier, and the B-team of Hayley Davis (captain), Ashley Huysamen, Tara Nieuwoudt and Anita Chen.

Singles closed out a two-shot victory over Mpumalanga A in the B-division. Members of the GolfRSA National Squad dominated the individual competition.

Brown from Western Province won with a round of four-under-par 68. Next best was Kleynhans with a 70, with

Stephanie Barbaglia from Central Gauteng and Southern Cape’s Jasmine Furstenburg tied for third on 74. Eastern Province was relegated to the B-division.