by RandparkAdmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Blog, Randpark
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 …
by RandparkAdmin | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, Firethorn Golf Course, Randpark
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 …
by RandparkAdmin | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog, Randpark
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 …
by RandparkAdmin | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog, Firethorn Golf Course, Randpark
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 …
by RandparkAdmin | Nov 21, 2020 | Blog, Firethorn Golf Course, Randpark
JOBURG Open 54-hole leader Wilco Nienaber has led the long driving stats on the European Tour this year, regularly hitting booming tee-shots over 400 yards. In round two in the Joburg Open on Randpark’s Firethorn course on Friday he averaged a mammoth 416 yards with his “bombs”.
The Free State flier carded a four-under-par 67 Saturday and is on 16-under-par 197 for the tournament, just one ahead of Denmark’s Joachim B Hansen, who posted a day’s best seven-under 64 to be on 198 …
by RandparkAdmin | Nov 21, 2020 | Blog, Firethorn Golf Course, Randpark
JACQUES Blaauw compiled a brilliant eight-under-par 63 on Firethorn in the second round of the Joburg Open to take the halfway lead on Friday on 13-under-par 129.
It was technically a provisional lead as a few players were unable to finish their rounds because of a weather delay but no-one was in a position to catch Blaauw.
The 34-year-old who plays out of the Els Club, Copperleaf, stormed home in just 31 shots on the back nine on a stormy day after play was suspended for a lengthy spell in mid-afternoon because of a thunderstorm …