The Rules of Padel
A padel game is always played with four people – two persons per side. The court is 10 meters by 10 meters per side. You also have a back wall, which is 3 meters high with an extra meter of fence at the top …
7 Amazing Benefits of Playing Padel
Are you searching for a new hobby to keep you active? Look no further than Padel! Not only does it enhance your physical well-being like any other sport, but it offers so much more …
Remembering “Old Fox” John Bland
Veteran golf writer Grant Winter remembers some Dunhill Cup magic from John Bland, who died this week Tuesday aged 77 after a stellar career on the fairways of the world …
Thrilling golf as Scheppel and Ford are our Club Champions
It all came down to the very last hole as 27-year-old Chris Scheppel edged out 52-year-old Sean Quigley by a single stroke to win, on a two-under-par 142, what can only be described as a 2023 men’s Club Championship thriller of note on Sunday. In the Women’s Championship Randpark’s 21-year-old Ernie Els Foundation member, hot-shot Cara Ford, took the club title for an impressive third time, her 148 aggregate a runaway 12 shots ahead of second-placed Lauren Clough …
Course of the Month: Randpark Firethorn Golf Course
Randpark’s Firethorn course will appeal to everyone who likes a challenge. From the top professionals who have tackled it from the back tees to the ladies and seniors who must produce their best form from the forward tees, Firethorn brings out the competitor in everyone …
Randpark’s Stefan Jacobs wins big in America
Randpark’s Stefan Jacobs has won one of America’s most prestige college golf tournaments just three months after arriving at Georgia’s Augusta University as a freshman …
Broken toe aside, our own Johan Bredenkamp a birdie machine in Texas
Post-Covid and for the first half of last year, Randpark’s teenage golf star, Johan Bredenkamp was regularly winning junior tournaments at home here in South Africa, quickly shooting up to the No 4 spot in the national rankings. Then he went to America in August, to Tyler Junior College (TJC) not far from Dallas in Texas, to study over there and play college golf …
Superb, sub-par blitzes in Club’s Graduate and Junior Championships
Talented 28-year-old Ryan Wingrove, who modestly describes himself as no more than a weekend golfer, won Randpark’s Graduate Club Championship by a runaway seven strokes on Sunday, while also gifted Grant Labuschagne – he’s just 16 years old, became the Club Junior champion …
Hot shots Schalk and Jock are men in charge at Senior IPTs
Hope for some “old magic” from Randpark duo Schalk Naude and Jock Wellington who are the respective men’s Central Gauteng captains for this week’s Senior (for over 50s) and Super Senior (for over 60s) Interprovincials …
Randpark’s Tom Buckle voted in as SAGES National Vice-President
Tom Buckle was voted in as the SAGES National Vice-President during the recent 2023 Nationals in Parys, Free State, for this national golfing society for senior club members over the age of 50 …
Randpark’s Graham Bishop is new Nomads SA number one
The Nomads, all 1500 of them throughout the country, have been described as “unsung heroes of South African golf” and Randpark’s very own long-time member Graham Bishop was on March 17 named …
Our very own Stefan is bang on par at Augusta National
Randpark’s super-talented teenager Stefan Jacobs started off his stint as a freshman at Augusta University in America by shooting an impressive level-par 72 off the daunting pro tees …
Why you should start playing golf
No matter how badly you play you win! Golf Reduces Stress, (or so they say) and increases your mental capacity, creativity and problem-solving ability …
Casandra a birdie machine at Randpark
TALK about hot golf! South Africa’s talented Casandra Alexander this week blitzed Randpark’s Firethorn course with a brilliant nine-under-par first-round 63 on her way …
SA Open champ Lawrence a bit like ‘fireproof’ Bobby Locke
CELEBRATED English golf writer Peter Dobereiner, penning words about South African great Bobby Locke in the 1950s, wrote: “Emotionally Locke was fireproof, or …