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Greetings from Bellville Friday, March 29, 2024



Kaylah Williams won the Ackerman Championships. Well done!

You can view the final scoreboard for this event here.

 



Last month saw the first Greenkeeper's Revenge. The goal for the event is to raise funds for the course's environmental drive. The funds raised from this year’s event is allowing for additional tree planting throughout the course. We would like to thank all the participants that took part and for the sponsors from suppliers and golf clubs. Look forward to seeing you next year for the second addition of the Greenkeeper's Revenge.

With the soil temperature on the increase, the kikuyu is starting to show a kick of growth. After last month’s hollow-tining of the closely mowed kikuyu, this month sees the team giving the closely mowed kikuyu a scarifying followed by a granular fertiliser application. This will encourage vigorous horizontal and new growth.

The team are currently upgrading the right-hand side bunker on the 6th green. The goal is to improve the visual aspect of the bunker, improve playability, increase access points to get in and out for golfers and bunker machines and reduce maintenance by lowering faces which will see less wash after rains and reduced movement of sand.

 
The reshaping of the right-hand side bunker on the 6th hole



The Bellville Classic 2016 is coming up in November

It's the biggest day of the year! More information is available on the poster below. Only 3-4 balls available!

   
 

 
  Hoërskool Bellville Gholfdag
See the poster below for more information.


Edgemead 2016 golf day
See the poster below for more information

 
 

 



The Monthly Meat Competition is sponsored by Beans for Africa Coffee Roasters (Stephen de Coito). Congratulations to Ivan Brink, Ingrid Walker and Lionel Fisher for winning this Wednesday, 19 October 2016.

The next meat day will be taking place on the 16 November 2016.

 



Western Province celebrates SA Mid-Am IPT success

Rustenburg, 14 October 2016 Western Province defeated Ekurhuleni to complete an unbeaten week and a welcome return to the winner’s circle in the South African Mid-Amateur Inter-Provincial Championship at Rustenburg Golf Club on Friday.

 

Ekurhuleni blasted to a 3 – 1 lead in the final round foursomes, but the 2013 champions overturned the two point deficit with a gung-ho performance in the singles to clinch a 6.5 – 5.5 victory.

Western Province skipper Cameron Johnston obliterated Jan Delport 8 & 7 and Weyers Janse van Rensburg downed Lawrence Joubert 6 & 4 to level the match.

Rowan du Preez briefly put Ekurhuleni back in front when he knocked out rookie Brent Kirstein 5 & 4, but Elton James took the match to 4-all when he handed Jaco Rall a 5 & 4 drubbing. Gerlou Roux eliminated Dino De Abreu 4 & 2 to boost Province’s tally to five, and Stefan Blommaert dispatched Donovan Pearce 3 & 2 to put Western Province 6 – 4 in the lead.

Waylon Kukard took out Riaan Lewis 2 & 1 to cut Province’s lead to one, but rookie Werner Theart held his nerve down the closing stretch to claim the half point that sealed victory for Province.

“Werner is a SA IPT veteran and his experience under pressure got the job done,” said Johnston.

“He was 2-up with three to play when Ernest Botha kicked it into high gear. He birdied 16 and nearly holed out at 18, but Werner was as calm as the Dalai Lama and bagged the vital half point."

“This is an incredible moment for the whole squad. It came down to how we would perform as a team against Ekurhuleni and I am so proud of how the players pulled together to get us the win. Elton and Gerlou came into the team firing after the premier SA Inter-Provincial and they were definitely our big guns, but every other guy on the team batted for this victory."

“Our losses this week were marginal, but we never took anything for granted. That’s why every man in the squad can share in this triumph. The whole team and our manager Ludwig Schreuder contributed to pull it through.”


Central Gauteng’s valiant 8.5 – 3.5 victory over KwaZulu-Natal was too little, too late. Western Province topped the standings with 12 points and the 2012 champions had to settle for the runner-up spot in the log on 10 points.

North West and Gauteng North drew 6-all in their final match, which left the host union in third spot with seven points and the Daisies fourth on five points.

The defending champions finished fifth with four points, while Ekurhuleni handed Eastern Province the wooden spoon with a game's point advantage. The teams both earned two points, but Ekurhuleni amassed 35 games points to Eastern Province’s tally of 23.5.

Province’s James and Central Gauteng pair Dylan Keylock and Steve Williams topped the Most Valued Player’s list on 10 points. James collected 5.5 points in the foursomes and 4.5 in the singles, Keylock went 4 and 6 and Williams won five foursomes and five singles.

Roux from Western Province, the reigning SA Mid-Amateur Stroke Play champion, finished in fourth on 9.5 points, while team-mate Blommaert, Lyall McNeill from KwaZulu-Natal and North West’s Douglas McCabe tied for fifth on nine points.

A-section result round 5

Western Province 6.5 vs Ekurhuleni 5.5
Central Gauteng 8.5 vs KwaZulu-Natal 3.5
North West 6 vs Gauteng North 6




A-section final round

1 Western Province (6, 6, 0, 0, 12, 48.5)
2 Central Gauteng (6, 5, 0, 1, 10, 43)
3 North West (6, 3, 1, 2, 7, 36)
4 Gauteng North (6, 2, 1, 3, 5, 34)
5 KwaZulu-Natal (6, 2, 0, 4, 4, 32)
6 Ekurhuleni (6, 1, 0, 5, 2, 35)
7 Eastern Province (6, 1, 0, 5, 2, 23.5)
 


The Summer 2016 Edition of Northern Hills Magazine is now available.
View it online
 
 
There’s a point in your bag where your consistency of ball striking and accuracy start to break down or disappear entirely. As the club gets longer it exposes a multitude of sins. One is your swing path. But the other, an unforgivable sin, is poor fitting.

 
Your #9 iron to 20 feet might feel like a good result to you. But what if we told you that an adjustment in launch angle and / or shaft flex would have made exactly the same swing as a 12-foot putt? How many 12-footers do you sink vs 20-footers?
Contact us for an equipment assessment.

 


We probably accept that Tour caddies are better at reading Putts than most of us.
There’s an opinion that they’re masters of some “dark art” of green reading.

 
 Actually, it’s science. Gravity.

Yes, the caddies have little tricks like knowing the green slopes towards water.

But what they’re looking for is where the water would run if it was on the green, because they know the water will follow gravity and always run downhill.

The ball will do the same. That’s what you’re looking for. You’re trying to read a green (around the hole) first.
And while the scientists know we also have to consider friction (how slick the green is) and resistance (wind direction),
I suspect you’d make more Putts if you could improve your reading of where the ball will follow gravity.



What’s your success rate from 20 feet out on the course? When you miss, what percentage is down to: a poorly-fitting Putter; poor technique; a bad read? You can be a great Putter.
Contact us





 

Regards,
Werner

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