EgoliGolf Photo Competition...
Show us at TeamEgoli photos and videos from your favourite golf courses and destinations in and around Johannesburg and the rest of sunny South Africa! The winning photos/videos will be posted for All The World to see on the EgoliGolf facebook Page and the EgoliGolf Web Site for one week - take this opportunity to promote your golf club or business and grab your 15 Minutes Of Fame!
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Decade upon decade South Africa has produced some of the world's finest golfers. The late, great four-time Open Champion Bobby Locke has been followed in amazing style by nine-time Major Winner and Grand Slam Titleist Gary Player. With Ernie Els winning his second Open Championship at Royal Lytham the double US Open champion is being kept company by fellow countryman and two-time US Open Winner Retief Goosen, thus extending the continuity of a unique and wonderfully successful golfing lineage. Cape Town's Trevor Immelman joined this elite club by winning The 2008 Masters. Pinnacle Point's Louis Oosthuizen joined these greats by winning The 2010 Open at St. Andrews and Pretoria's Charl Schwartzel won The 2011 Masters. South African Golf's past, present and future is in great hands with this fine crop of talent - we at TeamEgoli have a feeling there is plenty more to come...
These great champions are being chased by a highly motivated and hungry pack of Young Guns who are making their marks on the US, European and other Tours around the globe. Rory Sabbatini, Trevor Immelman, Darren Fichardt, Richard Sterne, Charl Schwartzel and Anton Haig are proven winners who will soon be joined by more exciting talent as the fallout from the explosive Super Nova that is South African golf, keeps gaining energy and creates yet more stars!
An impressive list of overseas players used the Sunshine Tour and its superb courses to launch their careers and become stars on the international scene. Great golfers like Nick Faldo, David Feherty, John Daly, Corey Pavin, Tom Lehman, Tommy Tolles and many others competed with high quality local stars Dale Hayes, Cobie Legrange, Hugh Baiocchi, John Bland, Bobby Lincoln, David Frost, Tienie Britz, Fulton Allem, Jeff Hawkes, Gavin Levenson and the Henning brothers...to name but a few! Zimbabweans Tony Johnstone, Mark McNulty, Nick Price and Simon Hobday also enjoyed great success on this tour.
With the annual feast of exciting Nedbank Challenges at the Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, and co-sanctioned events between the European and Sunshine Tours like the Dunhill Championship at Johann Rupert's stunning hideaway, Leopard Creek, in the Kruger National Park, the South African Airways Open - played at a variety of outstanding venues throughout the country - and the newly created Joburg Open being broadcast worldwide by the SkySports team, these great events are proving to be yet another powerful advert for golf in sunny South Africa!
The reasons South Africa has - and indeed still is - producing so many fine players, are simple:
The Climate: The weather on the Highveld is exceptional and golf can be played, quite literally, 365 days a year.
Affordability: Golf is relatively inexpensive and therefore accessible to most people.
The Golf Courses: Are championship quality, extremely well designed, have 'wall-to-wall' irrigation, are perfectly manicured and maintained, and provide a fair test to players at all levels of proficiency.
Practice Areas: Almost all clubs have excellent facilities which include a full driving range with large practice chipping and putting greens. South African PGA professionals have a profound knowledge of the game, and are on hand at all times to give advice and sort out the quirkiest of swings with a laidback approach that will make even the most nervous of pupils feel more than comfortable!
The Clubhouses: Are palatial and can host anything from a simple four-ball party to fields of up to 160. Luxurious, state of the art bars, restaurants, conference and banqueting facilities are serviced by highly skilled, friendly staff who wish to see their guests enjoy themselves and reserve future bookings!
These great champions are being chased by a highly motivated and hungry pack of Young Guns who are making their marks on the US, European and other Tours around the globe. Rory Sabbatini, Trevor Immelman, Darren Fichardt, Richard Sterne, Charl Schwartzel and Anton Haig are proven winners who will soon be joined by more exciting talent as the fallout from the explosive Super Nova that is South African golf, keeps gaining energy and creates yet more stars!
An impressive list of overseas players used the Sunshine Tour and its superb courses to launch their careers and become stars on the international scene. Great golfers like Nick Faldo, David Feherty, John Daly, Corey Pavin, Tom Lehman, Tommy Tolles and many others competed with high quality local stars Dale Hayes, Cobie Legrange, Hugh Baiocchi, John Bland, Bobby Lincoln, David Frost, Tienie Britz, Fulton Allem, Jeff Hawkes, Gavin Levenson and the Henning brothers...to name but a few! Zimbabweans Tony Johnstone, Mark McNulty, Nick Price and Simon Hobday also enjoyed great success on this tour.
With the annual feast of exciting Nedbank Challenges at the Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, and co-sanctioned events between the European and Sunshine Tours like the Dunhill Championship at Johann Rupert's stunning hideaway, Leopard Creek, in the Kruger National Park, the South African Airways Open - played at a variety of outstanding venues throughout the country - and the newly created Joburg Open being broadcast worldwide by the SkySports team, these great events are proving to be yet another powerful advert for golf in sunny South Africa!
The reasons South Africa has - and indeed still is - producing so many fine players, are simple:
The Climate: The weather on the Highveld is exceptional and golf can be played, quite literally, 365 days a year.
Affordability: Golf is relatively inexpensive and therefore accessible to most people.
The Golf Courses: Are championship quality, extremely well designed, have 'wall-to-wall' irrigation, are perfectly manicured and maintained, and provide a fair test to players at all levels of proficiency.
Practice Areas: Almost all clubs have excellent facilities which include a full driving range with large practice chipping and putting greens. South African PGA professionals have a profound knowledge of the game, and are on hand at all times to give advice and sort out the quirkiest of swings with a laidback approach that will make even the most nervous of pupils feel more than comfortable!
The Clubhouses: Are palatial and can host anything from a simple four-ball party to fields of up to 160. Luxurious, state of the art bars, restaurants, conference and banqueting facilities are serviced by highly skilled, friendly staff who wish to see their guests enjoy themselves and reserve future bookings!
