2023 Investec South African Open champion Dean Burmester and Leading Amateur Altin van der Merwe celebrate at Blair Atholl Golf and Equestrian Estate; credit GolfRSA. BLAIR ATHOLL, Lanseria, 3 November 2023 – Altin van der Merwe proudly took his place alongside 2023 champion Dean Burmester during the presentation ceremony, excited to receive the prestigious Freddie Tait Cup as the Leading Amateur in the 113th Investec South African Open Championship. The 27-year-old had already wrapped up the award by Friday evening, emerging as the sole amateur to make the 36-hole cut at Blair Atholl Golf...

24 February 2024 – Kyra van Kan’s month of love continued as she made it a hat trick of February wins with a commanding nine-stroke victory in the inaugural Africa Amateur Women’s Invitational. Having swept to runaway victories in the South African Stroke Play Championship and the inaugural GolfRSA International Amateur Championship on the GolfRSA South African Swing earlier in the month, Van Kan sealed her third title in three weeks with a wire-to-wire victory over 54 holes at Leopard Creek Country Club. “I'm seriously overwhelmed, it’s such an amazing feeling,” the 18-year-old Van Kan...

Huge Congratulations To BSI Junior Academy Golfer Vuyisani Makama on his inaugural national win in the GOLF RSA Dimension Data Junior U19 Open played on George GC and Kingswood Golf Estate last week.

CAPE TOWN, 20 January 2025 – South Africa will proudly be represented by five teams when the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship launches the 2025 South African Swing at Royal Johannesburg from 28–31 January on the prestigious East Course of Royal Johannesburg.

JOHANNESBURG, 28 January 2025 – Astin Arthur produced an almost perfect final six holes on Tuesday in the first round of the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship played on the Royal Johannesburg East Course as he carded a superb seven-under-par 65 to take the 18-hole lead.

30 January 2025 – It was no-holds barred on moving day in the GolfRSA International Amateur Championships, as the Proteas Men and Women scooped both Team Competition titles, Charl Barnard fired a career-best nine-under-par 63 at Royal Johannesburg’s East Course to top the men’s leaderboard and Bobbi Brown extended her lead in the women’s tournament.

31 January 2025 – Bobbi Brown was in a league of her own on Friday as she romped home by eight shots to take victory in the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship at Royal Johannesburg Golf Club on the East Course.

31 January 2025 – It took a gritty birdie on the first extra-hole of a sudden-death play-off on Friday for Astin Arthur to overcome the challenge of Charl Barnard and win the GolfRSA International Amateur Championship at Royal Johannesburg Golf Club on the East Course.

5 February 2025 – Jack Buchanan birdied the iconic par-five 18th at Leopard Creek, but still finished two shots shy of Zimbabwe’s Tanaka Chatora in the opening round of the R&A Africa Amateur Championship, while South Africa’s number one Lisa Coetzer opened up a two-shot lead in the Africa Amateur Women’s Invitational.

07 February 2025, Leopard Creek, South Africa: The GolfRSA Tournament Support Programme, a development initiative funded by The R&A, the National Lotteries Commission and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture in South Africa, has been introduced to provide pathways into the sport for golfers from less privileged backgrounds.

8 February 2025 – South Africa’s Bryan Newman captured R&A Africa Amateur Championship in fine style, relying on a conservative approach to hold off the challenge of Zimbabwe’s Keegan Shutt to emerge victorious at Leopard Creek.

11 February 2025 – Mooinooi’s Jordan Wessels hit the front in the first round of the South African Stroke Play Championship at Mossel Bay Golf Club when he fired an eight-under-par 64 for a two-stroke lead on Tuesday.

13 February 2025 – It seems scarcely believable, but Frenchman Noa Auch-Roy almost lapped the field on Thursday in the grueling 36-hole finale to the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Mossel Bay Golf Club.

17 February 2025 – JP van der Watt celebrated his first national success in front of a jubilant home crowd when he lifted the Proudfoot Trophy as the winner of the stroke play section of the South African Amateur Championship on Monday.

18 February 2025 – The early tournament favourites lived up to their billing in the first round of knockout matches at the South African Amateur Championship, with GolfRSA No. 1 Astin Arthur, first-seed JP van der Watt and top international talents Gregor Tait, Kartik Singh, Emilio Meijer and Louka Morin through to the top 32 at Humewood Golf Club on Tuesday.

19 February 2025 – There were some big-name casualties as the South African Amateur Championship whittled down to its last eight players on Wednesday, with 15-year-old East London school boy Arron Louw and Frenchman Louka Morin stealing the show at Humewood Golf Club.

20 February 2025 – South Africa’s number five amateur Charl Barnard rolled on into the final of the South African Amateur Championship on Thursday with a pair of tight victories in the quarter-finals and semi-finals on a windy day at Humewood Golf Club.

21 February 2025 – Charl Barnard produced the best performance of his career and played his way into the Investec South African Open when he defeated Cameron Mukherjee of Great Britain 5/3 in an enthralling the 36-hole match play final in the South African Amateur Championship at Humewood Golf Club.

23 February 2025 – Lisa Coetzer made two eagles on Sunday on her way to a six-under-par 66 and a two-stroke lead after the first round of the South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at PE Golf Club – The Hill.

24 February 2025 – Lisa Coetzer carded the second-lowest round of the day when her two-under-par 70 took her to a three-stroke lead after the second round of the South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Port Elizabeth Golf Club.