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 BSI Tournament Results

BSI Premier Medal

Congratulations to Jacques van der Merwe on winning the BSI Premier Weekly Medal on Tuesday, 22 November 2022, played at Royal Johannesburg & Kensington GC East Course.

Jacques shot a 2-under 70 to take the number 1 spot and move himself closer to first place on the BSI Premier Order of Merit. Jacques has now won eight BSI tournaments, but what is more impressive is that he has won 6 of the last 8 BSI competitions, and is 4-under for the last 6 competitive rounds played on the East Course at Royal Johannesburg & Kensington GC. Great feat Jacques, keep up the hard work and desire to win.

Jacques van der Merwe

Congratulations to Grant Labuschagne and David Harrold on making it through to the final of the 2022 BSI Golf Matchplay Championship.  Good luck to both players in the 36-hole final, which will be played next week




 
 External Tournament results

Botswana Junior Golf League – Stanbic Bank Gaborone GC (20 November 2022)

Congratulations to Yaone and Thomo Mokgatle in their excellent results at the Botswana Junior Golf League – Game No. 1 played on Sunday 20 November 2022 at the Stanbic Bank Gaborone GC.  Yaone took 1st place in the Girls 15-18 year old and Thomo came 2nd for Boys U15.

The brother and sister golfers have really done the Mokgatle and BSI family proud.

Yaone and Thomo Mokgatle

Bobby Locke Open – Parkview GC (15 – 17 November 2022)

T5: Liam Deventer (Mental Coaching Client)
T9: Reece Mckain
T21: Vuyisani Makama
T25: Dowoo Kim (one of only 11 players shooting under par on the last day)
T32: Eric Ncube and Grant Labuschagne
T39: Jules Helary
T49: Hilton Bailey and Sean Paxton

Central Gauteng 2022 Scratch League winners

Well done to Royal Johannesburg & Kensington GC, who won the 2022 CGGU Scratch League ‘A’ division with a number of our players representing the team. Special mentions go to Sean Paxton (5-5-0), who was also T1 in individual placing, Jules Helary (4-3-1) and Titouan Tregouet (4-3-1), both T7.

GolfRSA Rankings

As a development academy, it’s always nice to see in black and white the results of the training that we do to improve every single player. See below a comparison of Golf RSA national rankings at the end of the 2022 Open Amateur circuit, with the rankings from a year earlier.




 
 Alumni news

Congratulations to BSI PGA Diploma graduate Ginger Delacrétaz on joining the coaching team at the brand-new Tommy Fleetwood Academy (TFA) in Dubai. TFA have teamed with DP Performance Centre to open their latest branch at The DP Performance Centre at Jumeriah GC in Dubai. We wish Ginger many happy coaching days ahead.

Ginger Delacrétaz (far right)



 
  Performance Tip of the Week
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The goal of putting
By Mark Fairbank, BSI Golf Mental Coach and Director of Performance


‘Golf is 90% mental’. This is a phrase many players are familiar with and it is especially true for putting.  We become more stressed and anxious as we get closer to the hole and the outcome of the putt is at the forefront of our minds. Naturally, this obsession with outcome and the resulting stress leads to poor execution and missed putts. To resolve this, we need to first address what the goal of a putt is, and before reading further, think about what your goal for a 6-foot putt is.

If your answer is “to make it”, you are likely a poor putter. This is an outcome-based approach, which leads to a focus on pulling or pushing it, stroke mechanics, anxiety, tension and a yip-like stroke, because we try to control the putter through impact in an attempt to control the outcome of the putt.

The goal of putting is to judge the right line and right pace, then roll the ball as best as possible. The slopes and gravity will do the rest for you. Green reading is the most essential part of putting, an incorrect line and pace gives you almost zero chance of making a putt.


Having the right line and correctly judging the pace puts the odds of making the putt hugely in your favour.  Shifting your focus from there to rolling the ball as best as you can is as much influence as you can possibly have on the outcome of the putt. Focusing only on your processes of reading the putt and rolling it at the pace you want to, will greatly reduce stress, anxiety and tension which leads to a better executed stroke and ultimately more chance of holing the putt.

It is a difficult concept to implement because obviously we want to hole the putt, but this is an important distinction to make. The less you fixate on making the putt and accept you can’t control the ball going in the hole, the calmer you will be and the more you will enjoy the process of putting.

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 Not Just Golf

BSI Study Centre Matric Dinner

For the first time, our grade 12 students had the opportunity to celebrate their achievements over the years.  A lovely matric dinner was organised by our academic staff, at Rodizios in Melrose Arch, where our final year high school students in both of our Study Centres had the chance to relax after writing their exams and socialise outside of school hours.


FIFA World Cup FootGolf Challenge

OK, it was a little bit like golf…but a lot more like fun!

Sunday, 20 November 2022 saw the start of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and as part of BSI’s appreciation for the global game we organised a fun FootGolf Tournament for our students and staff on Huddle Park’s Mashie FootGolf Course.

Congratulations to the ‘Good Good team’ of Owami Chimanyi, Michael Coertzen, Gerhard Botha and Sayegh van der Merwe for taking the win.

Best-dressed went to our Junior Academy, ‘LIV 4 Golf’ team of Connor Olfsen, Justin Li, Thomo Mokgatle and Antoni Theron. Close runner-up best-dressed was the Sorry Italia!!! team of Renée Gomes da Silva, Cara Bosman, The TuTu Twins - Mark Fairbank and Jason Joel.

Well done to all that entered and we look forward to doing more fun events next year.




 
 Let’s recap

Catch up on our previous newsletters and re-familiarise yourself with our performance tips.

Recap



 
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