National colours for young golfer from Pretoria
A young golfer from Pretoria has been selected to participate in the All-Africa Junior Golf Teams Championship in Egypt as part of the junior Proteas team.
A sixteen-year-old Affies student will take part in the All-Africa Junior Golf Teams Championship as part of the SA team in Egypt in March this year.
The South African Golf Association (SAGA) selected GolfRSA National Squad members and Christiaan Maas from Gauteng North will join Casey Jarvis from Ekurhuleni, the Western Province’s Sam Simpson and Jordan Duminy from Southern Cape to represent South Africa in the prestigious Championship.
The talented GolfRSA Protea junior quartet will pursue a 22nd consecutive victory for South Africa at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Palm Hills Golf Course in Egypt.
The event serves as the African Qualifier for the Junior Golf World Cup in Japan, where both the champions and the runners-up will have the opportunity to take on the cream of junior golf from six continents.
Jarvis and Simpson were members of the victorious GolfRSA Junior Team that won the African Qualifier and went on to triumph in the Junior Golf World Cup last year.
All four juniors will be representing South Africa in the 54-hole team competition at the African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Leopard Creek from 3-6 February, which will go a long way in building their confidence for Egypt.
Ekurhuleni’s Jarvis leads the GolfRSA Junior Rankings. Southern Cape’s Duminy, Simpson from Western Province and Maas from Gauteng North are respectively ranked second to fourth.
The 16-year old Maas broke through on the national circuit in the 2019 Dimension Data Junior Open at Fancourt and finished runner-up in the Nomads SA Boys U.17 Championship.
“Christiaan also enjoyed an extremely impressive debut on the Open Amateur circuit last year with seven top 10s, including runner-up finishes in the Silver Salver and the Limpopo Stroke Play Championship,” said South African Golf Association President Naadir Agherdien.
Maas, a grade 11 pupil at Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool, in Pretoria made a strong start in 2020 with his five-shot victory first Nomads National Order of Merit Inland of the 2020 season at Benoni Country Club in January.
According to Agherdien, all four juniors have made their mark with superb individual performances and their contributions in team events and have represented their respective provinces and South Africa with pride.
We are confident that this team will do us proud in Egypt,” Agherdien concluded.
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