The Sunshine Girls Tour’s newest homegrown champion, 21-year-old Gabrielle Venter, is happy for this week’s ABSA Girls Invitational at Royal Johannesburg, saying she comes armed with the expertise of enjoying the course usually as an novice.
“I really like that course. I’ve performed there a bunch of instances within the SA Beginner. So, I believe the identical sport plan will work. I’m simply going to remain aggressive and hopefully the putter behaves,” stated Venter following her win within the Platinum Girls Open at Blair Atholl Golf and Equestrian Property on Friday.
Venter is joined within the discipline by Danielle du Toit and France’s Lois Lau, each latest winners on the Sunshine Girls Tour, in addition to defending champion Thalia Martin from England, and who claimed her maiden skilled title in final 12 months’s ABSA Girls Invitational.
This week’s match is the final within the lead-up to the 2 Girls European Tour co-sanctioned tournaments, with the Joburg Girls Open going down from 16-19 April at Randpark Golf Membership, and the Investec South African Ladies’s Open being performed from 23-26 April at Royal Cape Golf Membership.
Germany’s Celina Sattelkau and Sophie Witt presently occupy the highest two positions on this 12 months’s Investec Order of Benefit, with Sattelkau having claimed back-to-back victories in February.
Du Toit is presently third on the Investec Order of Benefit after profitable the Normal Financial institution Girls Open hosted by the Metropolis of Cape City in early March, and including finishes of tied eighth within the SuperSport Girls Problem and tied second within the Jabra Girls Basic. This 12 months’s Investec Order of Benefit winner will obtain a R200 000 bonus in addition to the usage of a Renault car for a 12 months.
South Africa’s Caitlyn Macnab and Zane Kleynhans, along with France’s Lois Lau, are the highest three main the cost for The R&A Rookie of the 12 months honours. The main rookie on the finish of the season receives computerized exemptions, if not already exempt, into the 2027 Investec South African Ladies’s Open and Joburg Girls Open.
Winners on this 12 months’s Sunshine Girls Tour may also obtain exemptions to compete with the Sunshine Tour professionals within the Waterfall Metropolis Event of Champions supported by Attacq and WCMC in early June, the place they may compete for a primary prize of R1 million for the professionals.
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