15th Club Launches a Randpark Tour
ABOUT seven years ago, one very hot Friday afternoon, I stood on the green of the Par 4 Number 18 at the Randpark Club Bushwillow course after posting one of my best scores ever in golf …
Amazing, emotional and explosive Grace wins on the PGA Tour
THE highlight of Branden Grace’s career was winning the 2020 South African Open right here at Randpark with an explosive final round 62 and a 21-under-par 263 total …
Cara close to the top in PE
CARA Ford did Randpark proud this past weekend by finishing tied for third in Women’s Golf SA’s Eastern Province and Border Championship at windswept Port Elizabeth Golf Club …
Firethorn’s 18th hole the very best, says young star Vorster
BIRDIE machine Martin Vorster, who won the South African Amateur Strokeplay Championship at Randpark last week, rates Firethorn’s par-4 18th as the best finishing hole he’s played …
Vorster wins SA Stroke Play in wire-to-wire style
Martin Vorster slept on the lead for three straight nights and on Thursday, South Africa’s top ranked amateur finished the job and won the South African Stroke Play Championship by four shots. Vorster once again showed he is man for big moments when he secured the national title on 23 under at Randpark Club …
Unflappable Vorster on course for SA Stroke Play glory
Martin Vorster and Kieron van Wyk shone the brightest at Randpark Club on moving day in the South African Stroke Play Championship …
Vorster lights up Firethorn to lead SA Stroke Play
Mossel Bay’s Martin Vorster stepped up his bid to win the South African Stroke Play title in Tuesday’s second round at Randpark Club …
Goldhill goes low at Randpark
Oliver Goldhill led a birdie barrage on the opening day of the South African Stroke Play Championship at Randpark Club after six days of unremitting rain rendered the ordinarily testing Firethorn Course defenceless …
Stone’s R5-million for a hot back nine on Sunday
BRANDON Stone tied for fourth in the European Tour’s Joburg Open right here at Randpark in November and the popular South African bettered this on Sunday in the tour’s Dubai Desert Classic with second place all on his own …
Two Oldtimers and Two Young Stars
WE were two old codgers – Jeremy and me – in our seventies playing in one of Randpark’s midweek senior competitions. We were supposed to be a fourball but one of the players couldn’t make it and another cried off ill just before teeing off …
GolfRSA poised for 2021 South African Swing
Excitement is building as South Africa’s top amateur talents gear up for the annual South African Swing, which tees off in February. “It is disappointing that, due to the circumstances surrounding the worldwide pandemic and the restrictions imposed by countries abroad on travel to South Africa …
Randpark’s Massimo Mbetse is big on brains and birdies
On the golf course he can score in the 60s and in the classroom he shoots in the 90s. We’re talking about 21-year-old Massimo Mbetse who is a member at Randpark but is in his third year studying for a Business Marketing degree …
A Creepy Creek at Firethorn
If you are not observant, you will miss it. If you are discerning, you will see it. Either way, the creepy creek around the Firethorn course of the Randpark Golf Club will have an impact on your game …
Randpark 80 years old and getting better all the time
OUR fantastic Randpark Club is 80 years old this year and, most will agree, it has in that time become one of the top golf clubs in the country. The best? Maybe we’re biased but, seriously, we might well be the best …
Danish delight on fabulous Firethorn
IT ALL came down to a classic “back nine on Sunday duel” and Denmark’s Joachim B Hansen fought brilliantly to come from behind to edge out young playing partner Wilco Nienaber and win the Joburg Open on Randpark’s outstanding Firethorn course.
Hansen posted a bogey-free, four-under-par 67 following earlier rounds of 66, 68 and 64 for a 19-under-par 265 aggregate. Nienaber closed with bogeys at 17 and 18, his only dropped shots of the day, on his way to a 70 and second place on 267, with Wilco’s fellow South African Shaun Norris shooting a superb 66 to claim third spot on 268 …