GEORGE NEWS - Southern Cape's u.18 girls competed in the recent Nomads SA Girls' Golf Championship in a very cold Orkney and the nine team members had to contend with some of the best young players in the country.

The time and effort being put into the development of junior golf is beginning to show results and the number of entries in the A-division (handicap 0-9) is getting so big that this was most probably the last year that D-division players (handicap 25-30) were included in the tournament.

A total of 136 girls competed over the 3 days of which 60 were in the A-division - 4 from the Southern Cape.

The field included 5 of the top 10 amateur ranked players in SA which is an indication of the strength of junior girls' golf.

Southern Cape's Carina Pienaar from Kingswood Golf Club, was 9th on gross after the second round, but shot a 84 on the last day to finish 18th on gross (out of 60 players) with a score of 243 (81, 78, 84).

The winner of the A-division and the 2012 Champion was Michaela Fletcher from Maritzburg Golf Club with scores of 69, 74 and 77.

Sune Blankenberg, from Heidelberg, ensured that Southern Cape did not come home empty handed by winning the best D-division Stableford prize for the Monday's round with 34 points.


The girls form Southern Cape that participated in the 2012 Nomads SA Girls’ Championship are from left (front) Stephanie Perkins (Knysna), Inge Conradie (George), Jackie Rabe (George), Liezl van der Watt (Kingswood), Sune Blankenberg (Heidelberg) and Rita Herholdt (Chaperone, Mossel Bay). Back: Ann Johnstone (President SCWGA, George), Jodie Duminy (Mossel Bay), Charnay Williams (Kingswood), Michelle Feben (Knysna), Carina Pienaar (Kingswood).