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/ 7 February 2009
Germany beat the Spar South African women’s hockey team 3-0 in the second Test played at Stellenbosch University on Friday night.
Professional golfers will be put to the test in Benoni when they tee up at the Sunshine Tour’s BMG Classic on Thursday.
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/ 22 September 2008
SA hockey is set to take some positive steps towards strengthening the game in the wake of the poor results achieved at the Beijing Olympics.
Of the six South Africans teeing up on Thursday at the 108th US Open, being played at Torrey Pines, San Diego, Trevor Immelman seems to have hit some form at the right time.
South African Hockey Association (Saha) president Dave Carr will request an urgent meeting with the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) to clarify the SA men’s team selection for the Beijing Olympics. This comes in the wake of the sports portfolio committee, chaired by Butana Komphela, insisting there be a 50-50 race representation.
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/ 20 January 2008
South Africa’s Ashleigh Simon and Laurette Maritz have all but ruled themselves out of winning the World Cup of Women’s Golf at Sun City after carding a level par 72 in round two on Saturday for an overall score of four under par for the tournament. Overnight leaders Korea shared the lead with the Philippines at 11-under.
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/ 19 January 2008
South Africa’s Ashleigh Simon and Laurette Maritz were seven shots behind leaders Korea after the first day’s play of betterball at the Women’s World Cup of Golf at Sun City on Friday. Korea’s Ji-Yai Shin and Eun-Hee Ji carded a bogey-free, 11-under-par 61 to lead France by one stroke with Canada in third at eight-under.
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/ 14 January 2008
South African Richard Sterne won the Jo’burg Open on Sunday at the Royal Johannesburg and Kengsington Golf Club after a dramatic three-way sudden death play-off against countryman Garth Mulroy and Swede Magnus Carlsson. The threesome who were tied at minus-13 after regulation play could still not be separated after they all birdied the par-five 18th.
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/ 10 January 2008
Rookie professional Tyrone Ferreira made a mockery of conditions in the opening round of the Jo’burg Open to share the lead with fellow countryman Mark Murless on Thursday. Both players carded six-under 65s to lead three players — Ross McGowan (England), Pablo Larrazabal (Spain) and Sion Bebb (Wales) — by one stroke.
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/ 11 December 2007
The South African Airways (SAA) Open, formerly the South African Open, which tees off at the Pearl Valley Golf Estates in Paarl on Thursday, has attracted the strongest field in the history of the championship. The Open will include Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman, Retief Goosen, Tim Clark, US Open champion Angel Cabrera, veteran Greg Norman and Darren Clarke.