GEORGE - Ahead of the European Senior Tour’s Berenberg Bank Masters at The Links at Fancourt, senior golf professionals shared their knowledge, skills and love of the game with a group of SA Golf Development Board learners at a golf clinic on Wednesday.

The 10 professionals first talked to the 40 learners from Heidelberg, Slangrivier and George about important swing principles and demonstrated how they approach practice sessions.

The learners, ranging in ages from six to 15, then received one-on-one instruction from Britons Maurice Bembridge and Andrew Murray, Jerry Bruner and Doug Johnson from the United States, Zimbabwe’s Tony Johnstone, and South Africans Vincent Tshabalala, Gavin Levenson, Jeff Hawkes and Chris Williams.
The learners also had the opportunity to question the seniors on how to excel at the game of golf and, of course, collect those all-important signatures.

Doug Johnson thoroughly enjoyed putting the 40 learners through their paces at the chipping green.
Johan Erasmus, Southern Cape development manager of the SA Golf Development Board, said that the children interacted well with the professionals.
"The most important thing for the kids was them seeing first hand what a pro does," said Erasmus.
"It was great, and the learners enjoyed it immensely."


Vincent Tshabala and Reagan Strydom at the clinic.