Top 20 spot for Ekurhuleni captain
The golfer will represent South Africa in the Espirito Santo Trophy in Abu Dhabi.
Ekurhuleni women’s captain Caitlyn Macnab climbed to a career-high 18th in the official world amateur golf ranking at the end of September, following her second individual collegiate win and first victory with the Ole Miss Women’s Golf Team.
After a career on the GolfRSA amateur circuit and her victory in the 2021 Sunshine Ladies Tour’s Jabra Ladies Classic, the former double SA Amateur champion took up a golf scholarship at Texas Christian University in 2021.
She excelled at number one for the Frogs and notched her first collegiate title in the Schooner Fall Classic, where she fired rounds of 69, 67 and 64 to win on 10 under-par 20.
Her six-under 64 in the final round was a career-best and tied for the second-lowest score in TCU history. At the start of the 2023/24 season, the 21-year-old Ekurhuleni golfer transferred to the University of Mississippi.
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She backed up a top-five finish in her first start at the Cougar Classic with victory in the Mason Rudolph Championship, finishing the event as the only player in the field to return three sub-70 rounds.
Signing for rounds of 69, 67 and 68 at the Vanderbilt Legends Club’s North Course in Franklin, Tennessee, Macnab celebrated a two-shot triumph on 12 under-par 204 and helped Ole Miss to a fifth-place finish overall.
In recognition of her success in Tennessee, Macnab was the SEC women’s golfer of the week for the first time in her career, although she was the All-Big 12, First-Team Academic All-Big 12 and Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team during her time at TCU.
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She also received All-American Honorable Mentions from the Women’s Golf Coaches Association back-to-back in 2022 and 2023.
Macnab had the honour of flying the flag for South Africa in the prestigious invitation-only Augusta National Women’s Amateur twice, where she finished 11th and ninth respectively in 2022 and 2023.
The golfer will represent South Africa in the Espirito Santo Trophy in Abu Dhabi from October 25 to 28 alongside fellow GolfRSA National Squad members Kajal Mistry and Megan Streicher.
This marks her third appearance in the World Team Amateur Championships. She made her debut in Ireland in 2018 and played again in France last year.
