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Wednesday, April 24, 2024




Professional sportsmen spotted!
Spotted: Wayde van Niekerk and the Ndungane brothers made appearances at Durbanville Golf Club this month...You never know who you may bump into, so book a round today via our Pro Shop on 021 976 8120.




Holes-in-one all around...
A big congratulations to Bert Vos for his hole-in-one on Monday, 15th March. This is a great achievement and we are very proud. Keep up the hard work!
 



Sean Howell wins Club Championships!
Well done to Sean Howell for winning DGC’s 2018 Club Championships! You have come such a long way, Sean, and we are very proud of you.

Thank you to all the players and our official sponsor, Imperial Toyota Cape Gate, for making this year’s Club Champs a massive success. We look forward to seeing you all again next year!

Click here for all the final scores and the breakdown of the scores in the different rounds.



Well done RSA! Defending your title is always a challenge and it was done convincingly!

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If the thought of The Masters gets you excited (and if you’re a living, breathing golfer, then I’m assuming it does), you will enjoy this article by Roddy Carr. Roddy played on the Sunshine Tour throughout the seventies and today works for the Jack Nicklaus Group.

Read the article here.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson played nine holes together yesterday in a friendly match against Fred Couples and Thomas Pieters - they won five of their last six holes! Last night was the Champions Dinner hosted by Sergio Garcia. He served an International Salad Starter (with an ingredient from each of the ten countries that have had Masters winners); followed by Spanish Lobster Rice and a Mexcian Tres Leches Cake for desssert. I would love to be a fly on the wall - just once!

Today is the Par 3 Competition and then tomorrow, the serious business gets under way. There are some interesting groupings to take note of...(Times are local to Augusta).

9:03/11:48 - Jose Maria Olazabal, Kevin Chappell, Dylan Frittelli
10:31/13:16 - Zach Johnson, Martin Kaymer, Branden Grace
10:42/13:27 - Tiger Woods, Marc Leishman, Tommy Fleetwood
10:53/13:38 - Sergio Garcia, Justin Thomas, Doc Redman (a)
11:04/13:49 - Bubba Watson, Henrik Stenson, Jason Day
11:48/8:52 - Trevor Immelman, Ian Poulter, Patrick Cantlay
12:54/9:47 - Charl Schwartzel, Webb Simpson, Yuxin Lin (a)
13:27/10:31 - Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar
13:38/10:42 - Adam Scott, Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm
13:49/10:53 - Jordan Spieth, Alex Noren, Louis Oosthuizen
14:00/11:04 - Justin Rose, Dustin Johnson, Rafa Cabrera Bello

Finally, if you haven’t seen this spoof on some of the players teeing it up this week, it is guaranteed to make you smile.


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Pull up your chair, get comfortable and enjoy great golfing action live on Supersport!

Credit: By Dale Hayes.



Who has been taking home the meat?

Click here for March’s competition results.


Stay tuned: New scorecards are being designed and printed and
are on their way!		  



    March 2018 Course Report


Click here for the March Course Report.



2018 Ladies Club Champs
Congratulations to all the ladies who took part in the DGC Ladies Club Championship. Special congratulations to the following winners.

Best nett over 36 holes:
• Copper division - Brenda Cronk
• Bronze division - Tracey Glasby
• Silver division - Helen Dai
• Best overall nett over 36 holes (Ken Higgins Trophy) - Tracey Glasby

Ben gross over 36 holes:
• Copper division - Sylvia noop
• Bronze division - Tracey Glasby
• Silver division - Jordan Rothman and our Ladies Club Champion for 2018

What's coming up?
Durbanville Golf Club is hosting the Mercedes-Benz Ladies Classic Golf Day on Friday, October 12, 2018.
If you are interested in playing in the prestige event, please registered here.

If you have any questions regarding this event please do not hesitate to contact me at hardingfm@gmail.com.

AND a final congratulations to the Durbanville Golf Club ladies winning the WP Women’s Amateur Championships Team Event (handicaps 18 & under), which was held at Bellville Golf Club on 21-23 March 2018.

League results - 13 March 2018
Silver Division - Halved
Bronze 3 Division - won (3/0)
Bronze 4 Division - Halved

Fixtures for April 2018:
4 April 2018 - Joan Parks Trophy
10 April 2018 - Birthday Girls
17 April 2018 - League
24 April 2018 - Foursomes

Yours in golf,

Florence Harding
Lady Captain		  



Western Province Announcements - March 2018:
Congratulations to Anton Bezuidenhout and Hugo Calitz who will be representing Western Province in upcoming competitions. We are very proud and are supporting you both all the way.

Anton Bezuidenhout will be playing in the Senior Inter-Provincials Team who will be competing at St Francis Links from 23rd - 27th April 2018. Hugo Calitz will be playing in the WP Kestrels Team against a Boland Senior B team (dates to be confirmed).

Keep up the hard work!

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Ayden Senger does it again!
DGC’s very own Ayden Senger was chosen to represent South Africa and competed in the All-Africa Junior Golf Challenge in Morocco.

Read one of Lali Stander’s articles on behalf of GolfRSA here.

 

Double joy for SA at AAJGC in Morocco
10 March 2018 – Both South African teams qualified for the 2018 Toyota Junior World Cup in Japan with victories in the Boys and Girls Competitions of the All-Africa Junior Golf Challenge in Morocco on Friday.

The SA Boys team claimed a 20th consecutive victory for South Africa in the prestigious junior championship on a winning score of 866, while the Girls Team went wire-to-wire to defend their title in the second Girls Competition on an overall score of 622.

Read more here.


South Africa celebrated double victories in the 2018 All-Africa Junior Golf Challenge in Morocco; credit GolfRSA.
Front (left to right): Kajal Mistry, Symone Henriques and Caitlyn Macnab.
Back (left to right): Werner Deyzel, Ayden Senger, Deon Germishuys and Martin Vorster.






Click here for more details about water restrictions on Level 6B.

Please note: In order to contribute to the water saving, our showers will be switched off until further notice. We thank you, in advance, for working with us to save as much water as possible!

Click here for water saving tips to avoid Day Zero.




We wish a very happy birthday to all those members who celebrated their birthday this month. They are:

Andre Carlsen. Wessel Marais, Gerjo van der Merwe, Eugene Groenewald, Wally Herbst, Anthony Jones, Marguerite McCleland, Paul Barry Rauch, Estelle Smal, Olivia Adams, Jan Hugo van der Merwe, Peter Aspinall, Anna Kilian, Suat Palanduz, Malcolm Young, Jackie Brink, Anna De Jongh, Lionel Higgo, Lynette Moreau, Rigardt Visser, Ryan Wilkinson, Wally Cradock, Jurgen Louis Geyer, Irma Hugo, Bob Rees, Jaco Wolstenholme, David Bell, Natalie Justice, Charne Lyons, Marno Stander, Andre Pollard, Kiara Natalia Clements, Glenda Craddock, Jean-Pierre Craye, Janco Combrinck, Ockert Groenewald, Nolene Jones, Natasha Kleynhans, Peter Micheal Seward, Arie Wessels, Gilton Chiwaula, Sean Arthur Peckham, Paul van der Vyver, Sean Verdon, William Boltman, Kari Finlandia, Monique Hearn, Vito Polera, Carien Hamman, Andries Laubscher, Mignon Louw, Ashraf Roomaney, Strauss Visagie, Matthew Bauermeister  

Abigail Carollissen, Michael Day, Colin Sidney Hooker, Jaco Engelbrecht, Cobus Haasbroek, Ivan Marais, Bruce Procter, Caro Jordaan, Damian John Krige, Michael Daniel van der Merwe, Gesina van Dyk, Simone Viljoen, Robert Atkins, Emil Grey David Frederick Herbert, Janine Roussouw, Chris Eloff Mark Mitchell, Joubert van Eeden, Martinus Johannes Wolmarans, Laurence Howard Gutridge, Jaco Smith, Johnston Kwo, David Pardoe, Enrico Roman, Stephanie Scherman, Jean Stipp, Petrus Abraham Villet, Andre Alberts, Allan Dainton, Joshua Elliott, Carron Finnan, William Jacobs, Geoff Jenner, John Lankhof, Liantie Swanepoel, Mark Wilkinson, Brian Patrick Coyles, A P De La Ray, Awie De Swardt, Christopher van der Walt, Desmond Mark Buckingham, Anton Gouws, Albert Lyon, Gregory Edward Baxter, Matthew McCarthy, Dawid Hendrik Smit, Jacobus Badenhourst, Louis Botha, James Brink, Katherine Monica Findlay, Vonnie Mostert, Lana Orgovanyi, Anna Stadler-Green, Werner van Schalkwyk, Steven Maree, Tebogo Mohale, Alan Shepard, Andrew Austin, Kathleen Ann Clark, Julie Hamman, Shannon Plyman, Jana van den Heever, Lombard Barnard, Garin Hoole, Andre Klop, Rian Laubscher, Jackie Meissenheimer, Nick Putter, Marius Smal, Willem Schalk Viljoen, Ashley Cockerill, Dian Barnard, Julian Fourie, Gerard Maclachlan, Gabriela Reisinger, Trixie Vlok, Vincent de Klerk, Jacques Du Toit, Ewald Maclachlan, Brian Matthews, Peter Assheton-Smith, Hermanus Bester, Hugo Calitz, Grantham Josephs and Tanya Nell.
 
Have a wonderful day!





Now that the R&A and the USGA have announced the final changes to the new Rules of Golf for 2019 I have taken the time to digest them and am ready to offer some initial thoughts. I do welcome most of the changes, especially those that should help to address what I believe to be the biggest problem facing the majority of amateur golfers – the time take to play a competition round of 18 holes. I do not intend to get into specific detail about individual Rules changes for two main reasons; first, the Ruling Bodies have done an excellent job of highlighting those changes with videos and explanations on their web sites; second, there are still nearly nine months before the new Rules are implemented and for those of us in the northern hemisphere, that means a whole season of golf, where the existing Rules continue to apply.

Read more here.

Click on the image for more information.
 

Happy golfing!
Barry Rhodes



See below for a video of JP Strydom competing in the Serengeti Tour Champs.

Click here for his player profile and to see more details about his tournaments played so far


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Have you ever dusted your Driver face with a powder to record your strike pattern?
You should try it. It can be quite revealing and will probably underline why the advances
in 2017 and 2018 Driver faces have been so important.
 

Obviously for the 15 handicap and above, given their strike pattern, the improvements in shot consistency
from the new faces, will be quite dramatic. But, lower handicap golfers have less room for error,
so even small improvements make a dramatic impact.
 
The Cleveland HB Launcher Driver has a number of design features that promote a consistently higher launch,
but it also has some real innovation in the face and head design to accommodate your strike pattern.

We’d like to work with any golfer interested in playing more often.
We’re keen to make sure everyone of our golfers is on the fairway off the tee more often.
Interested? 
 

If you know a child between the ages of 6 and 13, do you want their sporting participation to be about
becoming an elite athlete, or do you really want them to have fun socializing while learning some
movement and balance skills? Let them try golf!
 
 

There’s a lot of evidence supporting the argument that we should make sure that enjoyment and a
multi-sport approach are fundamental to their early development.

 
 
As coaches we want children to be safe, to feel settled, comfortable and integrated with other children,
and of course to progress. But as well as progress, we need to provide them with the levels of enjoyment
and fulfilment that will keep them active, happy, and connected to a pastime that
will be very valuable to their life. 
 

Come and talk to us about the best way to introduce golf to your child
or how to develop their ability.
 
 

 


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