Cameron named Sheppie junior golf captain
The idea is that Cameron will help bring other youngsters into the game.
Cameron Olivant has been named as Port Shepstone Country Club’s junior captain.
Club captain Bevis Fairbrother said he was really chuffed to announce that Cameron is the club’s very first junior golf captain – as far as he knows.
“This upstanding young gentleman will work closely with the men’s and lady’s golf committees to encourage the youth to play the game we love. Together with Pro-Vision’s youth initiative, we will be appealing to schools to offer golf in their sports curriculum,” he said.
“With Cam at the helm, and with the backing of the ‘ballies’, we hope to grow the sport at Sheppie.”
Cameron comes from a family where grandparents on both side have served on committees and been heavily involved in golf.
Now he just needs to win the club champs… something his father Gareth has done, in both strokeplay and matchplay.
The lanky teen, who turned 14 in April this year, has shot up recently and if he keeps growing, will reach six-foot tall before long.
His current handicap index is 4.2 but they way he is driving the ball at the moment – far – indicates that once he gets his course management sorted out, the scores will be in the red numbers and his handicap in the pluses.
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