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As a 20-something-year-old Charl Schwartzel didn’t fully grasp his Masters victory back in 2011 and the magnitude of winning one of golf’s most famous majors.
Tiger Woods has had so many health challenges over the last few years, especially after a serious car crash in February 2021 that badly injured his ankle.
After winning the SA Open last week, Joburg golfer Dylan Naidoo earned himself a spot in golf's oldest tournament, The Open.
Dylan Naidoo's victory at the SA Open marks a historic moment in South African golf, echoing the legacy of Papwa Sewgolum and symbolising progress in a sport once marred by apartheid.
Dylan Naidoo became the first player of colour to lift the SA Open, going one better than the trailblazing Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum, who finished second in 1963.
Brian Campbell triumphs over Aldrich Potgieter in a thrilling playoff to secure his first PGA Tour title at the Mexico Open.
Dean Burmester and Charl Schwartzel each pocketed a handy $312,500 (R5. 76m) for finishing in a tie for 12th at the LIV Golf Adelaide.
When Ernie Els won the 2012 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Anne’s, it completed an exceptional run of regular major wins for South Africans.
The 48-year-old Tiger Woods has played just once in his own event in the last three years due to poor health following a serious car crash in February 2021.
Robin Williams, 23, was given a personal invitation by tournament host Gary Player after the youngster’s stellar performances over the past season on the Sunshine Tour.
Aldrich Potgieter’s been successful at every level of golf he’s played, best demonstrated over the weekend as he became the second youngest-ever to earn a US PGA Tour card, via the Korn Ferry Tour (KFT) moneylist.
The 20-year-old Aldrich Potgieter finished 29th on the Korn Ferry Tour moneylist, with the top-30 earning playing privileges for next season on the PGA Tour.
Keegan Bradley defeated South Korea's Kim Si-woo 1-up to clinch the trophy, which gave the Americans a 13-1-1 lead in the series against the non-European side whose only win came in 1998.
Ashleigh Buhai’s round included eight birdies and just one bogey, as she put her injury problems behind her this year to edge ahead of Thailand’s Jeeno Thitkul and China’s Yan Liu.
Tiger Woods, who turns 49 in December, hasn't played since he missed the cut at the Open Championship in July.
Erik van Rooyen, Thriston Lawrence and Christiaan Bezuidenhout were all high up on the player rankings from which international captain Mike Weir had to make selections.
It will be scrum time when the Omega European Masters starts on Thursday as 16 golfers from South Africa prepare to tee it up.
Olympic champion Lydia Ko finished in champion style with a superb birdie on the 18th hole of a windswept Old Course to claim her third major title.
Ashleigh Buhai is the best-placed South African after shooting a level par round, while Casandra Alexander is currently tied for 32nd after a round of one-over par.
The 41-year-old Louis Oosthuizen signed for a closing 10-under 60, to end in a tie for eighth on 14-under overall.
Nelly Korda won six times in seven starts on the LPGA Tour between January and May, including her second major at the Chevron Championship.
Ashleigh Buhai triumphed in the Women’s Open in 2022 to collect her first major title, and became just the second South African winner of the tournament since Alison Sheard in 1979.
Rory McIlroy narrowly missed out on a medal three years ago at the Tokyo Olympic Games when he was part of a seven-man play-off for bronze.
Scottie Scheffler is hoping to crown a brilliant season with a ‘special’ gold medal as the golf world number one prepares to tee off at his first Olympics.
Charlie Woods, the 15-year-old son of 15-time major winner Tiger Woods, fired a 10-over par 80 on Tuesday at the US Junior Amateur championship.