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but I think it’s balance and contentment –
that’s the secret. I think it also gives a lot of
people hope that no matter what age we
are, we can all play this wonderful game.
It’s brilliant. I’m blessed.”

The teams of Trevor Fisher Jnr. and Stefan
Wears-Taylor, and Jaco Ahlers and Michael
Hollick, finished tied second on 16 under
par.

It was a fitting end to a week of exceptional
team golf.

The first round saw Ryan van Velzen and
Yurav Premlall get the right mix as they
opened with a better ball score of eight-
under-par 63 to share the lead with the
teams of Heinrich Bruiners and Keenan
Davidse, Luke Brown and Fredrik From, and
Jovan Rebula and Martin Vorster.
“I played for Southern Cape and he played come back from a very serious injury is
Vorster went so far as to add a hole-in- for Boland in those days. We weren’t an inspiration. I have so much respect for
one on the par-three ninth hole, earning supposed to get along,” said Bruiners. him.”
himself 50 000 Airlink Skybucks, courtesy
of the Airlink Aces reward on the tour this Davidse said he thoroughly enjoyed The second round of foursomes saw
season. It was one of two aces that week, partnering with a golfer he’d always looked brothers-in-law Daniel van Tonder and
the other coming from Jaco van Zyl on the up to. “When I was 12, he was 14 and Malcolm Mitchell, and Jovan Rebula and
13 . he had his Springbok colours already. In Martin Vorster, share the lead on 11 under
th
those days, it was Heinrich Bruiners and par.
It was a special moment for Bruiners and Branden Grace in the Southern Cape team
Davidse in particular. They have known beating everyone. Heinrich then turned Van Tonder and Mitchell combined well for
each other since they were teenagers professional before I did, and the fact that a 64 while Rebula and Vorster were solid on
competing on opposite provincial teams. he’s won twice on the Sunshine Tour and their way to a 68.

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