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Down Golf’s Memory Lane – St Andrews, July 2000

Down Golf’s Memory Lane – St Andrews, July 2000

This week, exactly 20 years ago at St Andrews, a 30-year-old Ernie Els was trying hard to fight back the tears after he had holed his final putt for a 69 and a 277 total in that year’s Open Championship. I was covering the event for Independent Newspapers and Ernie asked me to join him on the short ride back to the Old Course Hotel where he was staying …

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Club Captain Derek McGowan: A ‘Phenomenal’ Guy

Club Captain Derek McGowan: A ‘Phenomenal’ Guy

DEREK McGowan can’t hide his enthusiasm when talking about Randpark. “It’s a phenomenal club with two phenomenal golf courses,” he says. “There’s so much right about it – be it, in Francois, the best club manager in the country, be it the people in charge of the finances, be it the very special family atmosphere, be it management and the …

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“I was born in a bunker!”

“I was born in a bunker!”

“I WAS born in a bunker!” I’ve heard him say it before and I’m sure the Big Easy would have said it again – if only to himself – after the final hole of the Hoag Classic on the PGA Tour Champions on Sunday …

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Rambo’s birdie bonanza earning him big money

Rambo’s birdie bonanza earning him big money

Christiaan Bezuidenhout the birdie putts are dropping at such a fast and furious pace that it’s resulted in him not only enjoying a rapid rise in the world rankings, but a bank balance that is soaring to heady heights and will further climb in Mexico this week …

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Record-breaking Jarvis triumphs in SA Stroke Play

Record-breaking Jarvis triumphs in SA Stroke Play

Casey Jarvis etched his name into the record books as the youngest winner in South African Stroke Play Championship history when he claimed the prestigious title in dominant fashion at Randpark Golf Club on Thursday …

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Jarvis on song at SA Stroke Play Champs

Jarvis on song at SA Stroke Play Champs

Casey Jarvis continued his love affair with the Firethorn Course at Randpark Golf Club as he carded a second-round 65 to surge into a two-shot lead on day two of the South African Stroke Play Championship on Tuesday …

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Wilson leads logjam at SA Stroke Play

Wilson leads logjam at SA Stroke Play

Scotsman James Wilson fired some exceptional approach shots and yielded a hot putter to fire a stunning eight-under-par 64 for the first round lead in the South African Stroke Play Championship at Randpark Golf Club on Monday …

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Amazing Grace wins SA Open

Amazing Grace wins SA Open

Amazing Grace. There are no other words to describe Branden Grace’s remarkable come-from-behind victory in the South African Open hosted by the City of Joburg at Randpark Sunday …

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Freddie Tait winner Schaper ready to chase more records

Freddie Tait winner Schaper ready to chase more records

Not since Ernie Els in 1989 has an amateur finished in the top six of the world’s second oldest championship, but 18-year-old Jayden Schaper did just that on Sunday in the South African Open, hosted by the City of Joburg, at Randpark Golf Club …

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