Building on the ‘Steppe’ legend
The party went on long into the evening and not even Eskom could put a damper on it when the lights went out at 6pm.
THE late Tony Steppe was surely smiling down on his buddies last week Friday as they hacked and staggered around the Margate Country Club course for what many would agree was one of the best Construction Golf Days in many a year.
The annual tournament has become somewhat legendary (maybe not as a showpiece for golfing skills) ever since it was started some 30 years ago by engineer Matt Posthumus.
When Matt left for Australia, Tony (who tragically died in a horrific car crash some years ago) and Duncan Seth took over and ‘constructed’ it into what is arguably one of the most highly anticipated social golfing events on the South Coast.
Keeping the tradition alive, Steppe Construction’s Dave Kirby and Peter Naude (with a little help from their friends) have ably put it all together in more recent years.
Who won the tournament this year?
For those who can’t remember (understandably), it was the team from Southbroom Painters. (The fourball’s photograph appears on this page.)
The real winner was South Coast Hospice which benefited from thousands of rand, thanks to the generosity of the field.
However, all of about 120 players also walked away from Margate CC with a smile, thanks to the many generous sponsors, many of whom also went out of their way to man (and woman) no less than 13 ‘wet holes’.
Copious amounts of refreshments – solids and liquids – made the chilly weather totally irrelevant.
The highly contested PSP trophy for the ‘Best Watering Hole’ went to none other than the girls from Port Shepstone Precast themselves.
The party went on long into the evening and not even Eskom could put a damper on it when the lights went out at 6pm.
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