2011 Stellenbosch Challenge

2011 Stellenbosch Report

The 2011 World Schools Golf Challenge held in Stellenbosch, South Africa during April was an outstanding success with 46 teams from 7 countries – a truly international event.

In a week of testing conditions the players thrived on the four terrific host clubs – De Zalze, Stellenbosch, Erinvale and Devonvale golf clubs. The lead up to tournament saw the teams practising in beautiful warm conditions. Something they didn't see again until the day after the WSGC ended!

This didn't deter the field from thoroughly enjoying the challenging layouts of the four beautifully presented courses.

• The BOY’S TEAM GROSS competition was won by Millfield School from Somerset. The team of Jamie Clare, Matthew Sheehan, Nic Elliot and Moritz Hausweiler won with a combined score of 879 (best 3 scores each day counting) by 25 strokes from local school Strand High with Dainfern College from Johannesburg in third.

• Millfield also prevailed in the MIXED TEAMS GROSS with their No 2 team of Sophie Keech, Anthony McGeorge, JJ Fletcher and Patrick Fereday beating their No 3 team into second and another local school Somerset College in third place.

• St Anne’s Diocesan College from Hilton in KwaZulu-Natal entered the only all girls team. Their team was Sinead Rice, Caroline Alexander, Nayia Charalambous and Chanais van Wyk.

• The BOYS TEAM NETT was won by Auckland Grammar No 2 team from New Zealand - Steven Davies, William Du Toit, Jordan Loof and Blake Driver. Second was Westville Boys High, KwaZulu-Natal and third was Otumoetai College from the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand.

• MIXED TEAMS NETT was won by Team 2 from South Australia – Matthew Wilson, Travis Miller, Cassidy Evreniadis and Marshall Riley. Millfield team 3 was second and Millfield Team 2 was third.

• The INDIVIDUAL GROSS FOR GIRLS saw a clean sweep in Division 1 for Millfield School with Sophie Keech winning, Katherine Carragher second and Zhanna Tarasko third.

Division 2 was won by Friederike Bernsau (Loretto School, Scotland), Cassidy Evreniades from South Australia was second and Siska Buhhorn also from Loretto, third.

• The GIRLS DIVISION 1 NETT saw Katherine Carragher (Millfield) prevail over Melanie Foster (Como Secondary College, Perth, Australia) and Zhanna Tarasko in third.

• GIRLS DIVISION 2 NETT Cassidy Evreniades from South Australia was the winner with Friederike Bernsau and Siska Buhhorn from Loretto second and third respectively.

• BOYS DIVISION 1 GROSS – Handicaps +2 to 3: Jamie Clare (Millfield) played some remarkable golf, including 5 under at de Zalze, to take out Division 1 from two Strand High School students – Johann Germishuys and Hannes Swanepoel who came second and third respectively.
Clare played some very solid golf to beat the two local golfers who were both familiar with the courses.

• BOYS DIVISION 1 NETT An extremely close result saw Hannes Swanepoel tied with Roger Crant (Como Secondary) on 288 winning on a countback. Two shots further back was the Nett winner Jamie Clare.

• BOYS DIVISION 2 GROSS (4-7) – Kayne Wardell (Otago Boys) prevailed over Jarryd Edy (Hilton College) and Anthony McGeorge from Millfield in third.
Wardell’s score included a 69 at Erinvale the stand-out score in the division.

• BOYS DIVISION 2 NETT – Kayne Wardell was the double winner in Division 2 winning by 10 strokes over Andre Loots (Paul Roos Gymnasium) and Jarryd Edy third.

• BOYS DIVISION 3 GROSS (8-13) South Australia’s Matthew Wilson with a remarkable 3 scores in the 70’s won the Gross event from Kyle Simmonds (Westville Boys High) and Sam Ellis (Otago Boys) was third.

• BOYS DIVISON 3 NETT – The same three boys featured in the Nett results. This time Sam Ellis pipped Matthew Wilson by one shot and Kyle Simmonds filled third place.

• BOYSDIVISION 4 GROSS (14 plus) A clean sweep for Como Secondary from Perth in Western Australia. Lorenzo Brancato’sscore of 339 was enough to beat his schoolmates Adam Penrose and Lewis Mountford.

• BOYS DIVISION 4 NETT – Steven Davies (Auckland Grammar) broke up the Como monopoly of the 4th Division by winning the Nett competition from the Gross winner, Lorenzo Brancato. Lewis Mountford filled out the third place.