EC golfing sisters to show their talent at competition
Border professional golfing sisters Yolanda and Siviwe Duma will come up against the best women golfers from around the country when they compete in the Sun Pinkstig Finale at the famous Gary Player and Lost City Golf Course this week.
Border’s top ranked amateur and third in South Africa, Zethu Myeki, will also be taking part in the competition.
The Sun Pinkstig Finale, which gets underway today, is a fresh and new woman’s golfing development and plays host to 24 lady pro’s and 11 top ranking amateurs over three days of exhilarating golfing action.
An enticing prize purse of R250000 is up for grabs.
The Duma sisters and Myeki are the only golfers from the Eastern Cape taking part and will be hoping to challenge for the title.
The Duma sisters, from Mdantsane, only turned pro last year and will be looking to keep impressing and seeing their budding reputation grow.
Coming from a golfing household, having started playing at a tender age while tagging after their father, Enoch Duma, on the green they made their professional golf debut in this year’s Sunshine Ladies Tour, where they got their order of merit and made it to the top 50.
So far Siviwe’s highlights have been an eighth place finish at the Pinkstig Series at Parkview and 28th at the Supersport Ladies Challenge played at Huddle Park, while Yolanda’s top placing have been a 29th place finish at the Dimension Data and 25th at the Supersport Ladies Challenge.
For Myeki, she comes into the competition in red hot form having picked up her first win of 2017 at the Mpumalanga Championship last week.
She has enjoyed a very consistent 2017, picking up four runner-up placing and four third place finishes over the year and finally managed to get the elusive win at the Ermelo Country Club.
She will now look to take that momentum into this week’s competition.
The Sun Pinkstig Finale anchors itself side by side to the Sunshine Ladies Tour on the golfing calendar for women in South Africa and this thus sees a robust convergence of women golfers onto world class golf courses, to further showcase local talent and break the stereotype of golf being an elitist game.
The professional players taking part include: Kim Williams, Leslie Grandet (Madgascar), Caryn Louw, Morgana Robbertze, Tijana Kraljevic, Mae Cornforth, Michelle de Vries, Bonita Bredenhann (Namibia), Ivanna Samu, Alet De Lange, Michelle Leigh, Tandi McCallum, Chiara Contomathios, Monique Smit ,Bella Modisha, Monya Richards, Melissa Eaton, Mandy Adamson, Lara Weinstein, Shawnelle de Lange, Crizelda van Niekerk, Flavia Namakula (Uganda) , Yolanda Duma and Siviwe Duma. The amateur players include: Lindi Coetzee, Lynette Fourie, Alisa Rich, Kim de Klerk, Lenanda van der Watt, Zethu Myeki, Kelsey Nicholas, Catherine Lau, Sarah Bouch, Larissa Du Preez and Eleonora Galletti.