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Golf's never-ending quest

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 11:30


Summer greetings,

Yes, it’s time… time for us to start enjoying the summer sun! Like most, I am over this wet winter and ready for everything that goes with summer. The ABACUS Eikestad Classic is around the corner with a week of celebration to look forward to – from Sunday, 3 November till Saturday, 9 November we will be playing golf and having a party all week long. #120yearswereaboutgolf






Birthday Mix Competition - 3 November
Monday Senior Classic - 4 November
Ladies Member & Guest - 5 November
Wednesday Walk Down Memory Lane - 6 November
Celebrating the Partners of Stellenbosch GC - 7 November
ABACUS Eikestad Classic - 9 November

With very limited space available don’t delay – bookings@stbgolf.com


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Golf's never-ending quest


It has been written that a golfer who is improving is golf’s best customer…

Golf cannot be mastered. Some play purely for fun and there are many who play who don’t even keep score. For others, golf is a never-ending quest to get better! Né Jaco!

Improving at golf is a personal goal, that pardon the analogy, is no different from trying to lose weight and boy can I relate to that. Common to both objectives are the interest in that “silver bullet” promising a fast and easy result. Equipment companies sell millions of clubs every year because buying a better game is so much easier and rewarding than instruction and practice. Just ask – Erich, Mackie, Cameron or Bianca, they will echo the above sentiment and that with the best technologies provided at Stellenbosch GC for lessons - with the best coaches course!

Lowering your score and trimming your waistline both require knowledge, but also real discipline and time.

This is a scary number: the golf instruction industry generates over $ 1.5 billion annually, with golfers taking nearly 27 million lessons last year, according to the latest consumer studies. (in the USA only!).

And yet, the reality is that only about one-in-five golfers takes professional instruction, with a PGA Professional at a traditional green-grass facility, at dedicated instruction centers.

Most golfers take a do-it-yourself-ONLY approach, whether that’s trying to dig their own swing out of the dirt (as Ben Hogan used to say), practicing tips they see in golf publications or on YouTube or on social or other media. (hiervan kan Jannie, Jacques en Jaco bitter goed getuig). Some just swing their swing and don’t worry about the mechanics behind it.

It may be intuitive, but typically the more skilled and committed golfers have a greater likelihood of seeking professional help, no doubt with hopes of shaving a few more strokes off their handicap index.

Unfortunately, it’s those who need it most, the higher handicappers and adult beginners, who are generally less inclined to take lessons, doing so with less frequency than the golfing average.

As golf continues its broad evolution, fuelled in part by incremental gains in participation and play, the golf instruction category has grown in lockstep, especially as new technologies, approaches, and types of engagement emerge. Because there’s always room for improvement, especially in golf. #bookthatlessonnow


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MEDICLINIC Stellenbosch Ladies Open Day





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On Thursday last week the ladies of Stellenbosch GC invited their friends from all over the Western Province and Boland to come and enjoy a day to remember with them. Surprised and delighted around every corner, they were! A brilliant, brilliant, brilliant Ladies Open Day presented by the ladies committee – dit was pragtig gewees en ek is dood seker al die dames wat deelgeneem het, het dit bitter baie geniet – julle kan trots wees dames!! Please enjoy some of the photo’s from the day by clicking on the link above.



Champion of champions


Here we come – Taswald Koopman and Crystal Beukes are playing in the final stage of the Champion of Champions at Pecanwood, and we wish them all the best. Taswald is returning in 2024 for his second appearance in this event and Crystal our reigning Ladies Club Champion is teeing it up for the first time.




Our two Champion of Champions




Spring treatment 2024


The spring treatment is well underway… not even the bad weather is going to hold Neil and his team back, we wish him all the best for the week as they, verti-cut, scarify and hollowtine the entire golf course. Best news for the most of you are that they are cutting the rough down all over the course, even in the places where Jannie and Brakkie hit the ball, which sometimes is just, just still on the golf course.

The course will re-open on Saturday, 5 October with the inaugural Desert Classic for the morning field. NO competition fees and yes, we have some great prizes ready for you. Please remember to join us for a braai after the round @ R150 per person, even better, invite the rest of your family and friends to join – just let Marizan know at bookings@stbgolf.com.


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Quiz time


Who does not like a little competition, or even better, one where you can win a bottle of Loch Lomond! Let me know by clicking here when our first deck was opened. Closest with the year – month – day will be spoiled with the drum of whiskey – let’s go people.

Stay warm & keep it down the middle,
Louis



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