From starting off as a caddy to winning the Review Golf Challenge
When Adam Milanzi started as a caddy at the Zebedela Golf Club in 1987, he could only imagine one day playing the game he had grown to love so much.
POLOKWANE – Still, he had no idea that he would take home several titles one day.
As recent as last week, he won a local golf challenge sponsored by our sister paper, the Review Golf Challenge.
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“It all started with me carrying the golf bags for players after school and during school holidays. I started playing the game with self made golf balls made out of black plastic irrigating pipes and iron rods as clubs. We did not care that we did not have the right equipment. We played and it was good competition that we loved,” Adam explains.
In 1990 he was invited to play social events around Limpopo. He borrowed golf clubs from players who saw his passion and assisted in paying his golf fees, and it is here where Adam says he got addicted to the game and hasn’t looked back since.
In 2007 he officially affiliated with the University of Limpopo Golf Club and in the same year, became the club champion. In 2011 he joined the Polokwane Golf Club, and in October 2013 he was chosen to represent Limpopo for the first time in Durban in a mid-amateur tournament.
In his golfing career he has achieved different accolades, like being the winner of two open challenges, the last being the Kameeldoring open.
He scored a hole-in-one at the Polokwane Golf Club and his lowest ever handicap, was a plus 2. He intends to play in some of the bigger events in 2019 to further his career and his dream and next step is to go professional and compete in competitions for big prize money.
His advice to the youth is to take up golf for several reasons that include networking with people from different fields: “It teaches self discipline and empowers players to work on time management”.
Adam says he never took professional lessons but makes time to practice.
“I practice once a week when I am not in court in my full time job as a lawyer. Even though I am a talented golfer I know that if I do not put in the time I will not have success and it is a strategy that I apply in everything I do,” Adam says.
