Southbroom Golf Club, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa - One of the finest holiday golf courses to be found anywhere.

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FROM THE SOUTHBROOM PROSHOP

 

FIXTURE LIST

Friday 30th July
Chicken Run

Saturday 31st July
Sanlam Cancer Challenge
Individual Stableford Entry fee R55

Sunday 1st August
Ladies South Coast Region Champs

Wednesday 4th August
Men’s: Aggregate Stableford
Ladies: Aggregate Stableford

Friday 6th August
Chicken Run

Saturday 7th August

PRESIDENT'S TROPHY
Men’s:  BB Stableford
Ladies:  BB Stableford


CONDOLENCES

Otto Asböck

Our warmest sympathies & sad condolences are with Karin Asböck and their many friends & fellow golfers on the sad passing of Otto Asböck.

Otto passed away peacefully at home on Sunday 25th July 2010. He finally lost his valiant struggle against cancer.

Southbroom Golf Club and the Nomads will miss a true Gentleman and we will remember his amazing positive outlook on life and miss his warm smile.


CONGRATULATIONS

Well done to Gavin Sole, once again, for making the KZN Golf team for the Inter- Provincial at Pretoria CC in September. Natal are the defending champions and there is no reason why they can’t remain champions. This will be Gavin’s 9th Inter Prov. Well done Gav!


GETAWAY MAGAZINE

The latest Getaway August 2010 has a great article on the KZN South Coast as a spring holiday destination.

That cover picture taken by Roger de la Harpe is just breathtaking. It’s a familiar view for all of us ~ the magnificent beaches viewed from our 4th Tee.


 

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Greetings from Derek

We have done some work on the course this past week. Reshaping the bunkers on No 1 ~ where our goal is to have a uniform design throughout the golf course. Our biggest aim is to have them more consistent, which is not an easy task at the coast. We have also enlarged the 11th tee and it looks great. It should be in play by early summer.

11th hole - Enlarged tee box

 

SIMBITHI

On a personal note, it is wonderful to be playing golf again after an 8 week lay off. My physio, Grace Hughes, has done a great job on my injured shoulder and I am swinging well again. The Southbroom team of Gerald Myers, Arthur Lee, Stuart Janvier & myself finished second at the KZN PGA Pro Am hosted by Simbithi last Monday. We each won a great Mizuno travel bag. Simbithi is a course you must go and play. It is situated just north of Ballito and the course was in superb condition for the middle of winter. I feel Peter Matkovich has done a great job on the design. There really are some great golfing trips to do in South Africa especially along the KZN coast which is sprinkled with wonderful courses all enjoying the good year round weather.

CHICKEN RUN ORDER OF MERIT

Congratulations to Mike Jacquet and Chris Miller who shared the prawns for the Mid Year Order of Merit ~ awarded to the players who scooped the most chickens in the Chicken Run ‘Jan – June 2010’ . It was a closely fought contest with Mike & Chris each claiming a bird 7 times, closely followed by George Haswell, Len Harvey & Roy Hales on 6 birds a piece.
 

Mike Jacquet & Chris Miller

 

VILLAGE NEWS

A familiar face in town!

It was great to meet Chris Skudder last week at the Chicken Run Prize Giving dinner as he enjoyed his extended holiday here after a hectic schedule with the 2010 World Cup.

Chris is a Sports presenter and correspondent for Sky News. He has made his name covering football World Cups in USA (1994), France (1998), Japan (2002) and Germany (2006, European Championships in Belgium/Holland (2000) and Portugal (2004) and Olympic Games in Greece (2004) and China (2008), working for both Sky News and Sky Sports News. He has followed the England football team around the world over the past decade.

Chris was ahead of the world’s media to report on the controversial decision for Germany to host the 2006 World Cup. Chris has worked at Sky for 17 years. He is an old hand at presenting sport and voiced the original commercial trail for the precursor of the Sky Sports channel while freelancing as a sports broadcaster for British Satellite Broadcasting. (Now we just have to get him enjoying swinging a golf club!)
 

Regards

Derek & Sheena

   

THE SCORECARD

Friday 23rd July - Chicken Run
Chris Miller 21
Stuart Janvier, Adrian Couzyn & Sandy Luus 20
Roel Germs 19
Mike Jacquet George Haswell & Vic Pretorius 18
Mid Year Prawn Award
Winners :7 Chickens a piece ~ Mike Jacquet & Chris Miller
Runners up : 6 chickens a piece ~ George Haswell, Len Harvey & Roy Hales

Saturday 24th July
Men’s: Stab Alliance 2 to count ~ 1 on the shorts.
1st Bob Clark, Joe Carolan, George Wright & Roy Hales 83
2nd Winston Sahd, Mario Delfante, Mike Rautenbach & Roe Berry 83
3rd Theuns van Rooyen, Grant Richards, Rob Dye & Brian Parsonage 83
Ladies BB Stab
Stab Alliance 2 to count ~ 1 on the shorts.
1st: Shelley Myers, Sandi Luus, Jeanette Peyios & Lan Yeadon 80
2nd: Jan Humphrey, Mary Carolan, Janet Barclay & Yvonne Janvier 80
3rd Shirley Hooker, Candida Amm, Elizabeth Cochrane & Jeanne Powell. 80

Sunday 25th July - Alliance
1st Vic Pretorius, Jeanne Powell, Joe & Mary Carolan 89

Wed 28th July
Men’s: BB Stab

1st: Hendry Kotze & Arthur Lee 48
t2nd: Chris Miller & Roy Hales 46
Gurney Mathews & Joe Carolan 46
George Wright & Derek James 46
Roly Humphries & Dave Jones 46
Ladies:Alliance
1st: Liz Shaw, Sharon Turnbull-Jackson Sally Wigley & Lee Mutch 95
2nd: Viv Date, Jean Corfe, Pam Quarmby & ghost 87
3rd: Augustine D’Ewes, Jan Germs, Sarah Seth & ghost 87

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