The 2016 edition of Limpopo Golf Union’s inaugural flagship event took place at Koro Creek Bushveld Golf estate in Modimole over the past weekend. 8 – 10 July 2016. This event is a National Ranking event for the top players in the country to come too Limpopo Province to play in the event. The tournament is played over 3 days but only the top 60 and ties are eligible to play the third round. We had 115 entries this year.
The weather was perfect and the course was in great condition from the practice rounds throughout the tournament. The greens reached speeds of 13 on the stimp meter and for some of the players who do not play in national events regularly it was a tough ask to get comfortable on the greens.
Round one finished with 3 players tied at the top on 2 under par. David Meyers from Central Gauteng, Steven le Roux from Free State and Christopher van der Merwe from Gauteng North. Limpopo’s top player Jannie Bronkhorst was 5 behind on 3 over par.
Round 2 saw co-leader David Meyers break away from the pack with a second round 69 (3 under par and 5 under par total) and take a 2 shot lead over Ekurhuleni golfer Kyle McClatchie on 3 under par. Kyle had rounds of 73 and 68 till this stage. But it was round 3 that gave all of the excitement, David Meyers did not wait or stand back for anyone and started quick out of the blocks with birdies at holes no 1,2,5,6 to turn in 3 under after a bogey at no 7. But 2 of the toughest holes on the course was no match for David as he made birdie on 10, 11 and 12 after the turn to take a 9 shot lead at that stage. A Small hiccup at the 17 where he made a double bogey 6 was quickly fixed with a birdie on the last hole.
David fished with an 8 shot victory and thus took home the coveted prize of Limpopo Amateur Open Stroke Play Champion Golfer 2016. Limpopo’s best finish player was Cameron Nesmith on 2 over par tied for 12 position.
Limpopo Golf Union took a big step into the future when they took hands with Albetros Scoring Solutions and used a new Live Scoring system for the tournament. This kept everyone up to date and informed said Limpopo Golf Union’s Operations Manager Jean Sadie. We will be using this system in all our Open tournaments in the province from now on as this adds more value to the tournament for players and sponsors alike. We can measure exactly how many people visited the site and checked scores, thus we now how good the sponsors are being advertised. This is a big step into the right direction and we hope that this will make all our events more prestigious.
Big thanks to Koro Creek Bushveld Golf Estate for hosting the event and to all the players that came out to play.
Gross [5] (Male)
206 David Meyers 70 69 67
213 Herman Loubser 72 70 71
214 Kyle McClatchie 73 68 73
216 Matt Saulez 73 72 71; Steven le Roux 70 73 73
217 Tristen Strydom 76 71 70; David Mcintyre 76 69 72; Louis Albertse 74 72 71; Sentanio Minnie 73 75 69; James Pennington 71 75 71; Jason Rossiter 71 74 72
218 Cameron Nesmith 76 73 69; Dean Martin 74 70 74; Dylan Kok 73 73 72; Chris van Tonder 72 76 70
219 Theunie Bezuidenhout 73 75 71; Tyrone Gibb 73 70 76; Clifford Thompson 73 69 77
220 Richard Joubert 77 68 75
221 Ruan Conradie 80 72 69; Marco de Beer 75 73 73; Xander Basson 73 73 75
222 Kyle Barker 71 74 77
223 Luke Mayo 78 72 73; Darin de Smidt 73 76 74; Philip Kruse 73 75 75; Christopher van der Merwe 70 75 78
224 Shane Martin 80 70 74; Andre van Heerden (Jnr) 76 74 74; Zabastian de Jager 76 72 76; Jannie Bronkhorst 75 74 75
227 Shaun Bernstein 77 75 75; Estiaan Conradie 76 77 74; Quintin Wilsnach 73 76 78
228 Otto van Buynder 76 78 74; Karl Lehmacher 75 79 74; Armand van Dyk 75 76 77
229 Ricky Hendler 83 73 73; Benjamin Follet – Smith ZIM 77 77 75; Mohit Mediratta 74 77 78
230 Matthew Hands 76 77 77; Barend Gerber 73 77 80
231 Liam Labuschagne 78 74 79
232 Thabo Shingange 81 74 77; Fanie Wolmarans 81 72 79
233 Nico du Buisson 77 79 77; David Nortje 77 79 77; Nicol Kromhout 76 79 78; Adriel Poonan 72 80 81
234 Jaco Linde 81 75 78; NJ van der Walt 79 75 80; Conrad van Baalen 77 78 79
235 Erhard Lambrechts 82 74 79; Jade Buitendag 78 77 80; Michael Pienaar 76 78 81; Jandre Fullard 74 75 86
236 Stephen Morrison 79 77 80
237 Keagan Martin 79 77 81
241 Franco Putter 77 78 86
