Eastern Province Golf

Is this the hottest 4‑ball to tee it up at the Humewood Silver Salver - ever? 🔥⛳
- Two are Protea players ✅✅
- Another made international headlines ✅
- The other, winning just about everything he enters ✅
Shots will be fired this Sunday, 19 July 2026, at Humewood Golf Club during the 36‑hole Humewood Silver Salver Tournament🏆👀
Up for a pleasant walk? Come see Eastern Province Golf’s top players in action! T-off is from 07:10 and play will continue all day🚶‍♂️
🎟️ Entry is FREE

Dramatic playoff at Royal Port Alfred!

Some of the action from the Fellow Deer Tournament played at Royal Port Alfred Golf Club on 12 July 2026 — including the full playoff to decide the winner. Watch!

Huge thanks to the management and staff at Royal Port Alfred for presenting the course in magnificent condition. The greens, with their enhanced character, were an absolute joy to play. We highly recommend a round at this iconic venue!

Thank you to the EP officials and their wives for making the day a success. This event was the penultimate tournament of the Eastern Province Order of Merit Mid-Am season.
Watch, enjoy, and share!

2025 Nomads SA U15 champ Shaun Viljoen fired 5 birdies coming home for a superb opening 6-under-par 66 to lay down an early marker for a second Nomads national title.

2026 Nomads SA Boys U17 Championship | Bellville Golf Club

Par‑5 perfection — Valentino’s incredible albatross! 🐦⛳
Valentino Daniels carded the rarest of birds — the second recorded albatross in EP Golf tournament play history — at St Francis Bay Golf Club during the St Francis Classic on Sunday 5 July 2026. 💥 That is three under in one hole, let that sink in for a moment!
Valentino Daniels hit the ideal drive, down the middle. Not thinking he'd reach, he selected his three‑wood and flushed it, covering 247m to albatross the Par‑5 6th — a hole famed for its tiny green that’s tough to hold on any day.
An astonishing achievement for any golfer, let alone at age fifteen! 🎉 (The first albatross was recorded by the legendary Dennis Smith in the 80's on the 17th hole during the playing of the Wedgewood Vase).
There’s no single definitive probability, but an albatross (hole‑in‑two on a par‑5) is extremely rare.
Rough practical estimates:
Professional level: on the order of 1 in 500,000 to 1 in 2,000,000 rounds (very roughly 0.00005%–0.0002%).
Amateur level: much rarer — commonly estimated between about 1 in 1,000,000 and 1 in 6,000,000 rounds.
Valentino, we salute you! 🏆

ENTRIES CLOSE 8 July at 12:00! 200 Order Of Merit points are up for grabs for:

- EP MAIN Order-Of-Merit
- EP MID-AM Order-Of-Merit
- EP JUNIORS Order-Of-Merit
- EP COUNTRY DISTRICTS (first event of the new season)

R620 cover both rounds and includes lunch!

Looking forward to seeing you at Royal Port Alfred on Sunday!

Tiaan Tibshraeny on a Tear: Winning Everything Right Now
What a Sunday it was at the 2026 St Francis Classic at St Francis Bay Golf Club!
Huge thanks to Gary and the St Francis team for availing the course and presenting it in an excellent condition.
Massive congratulations to Tiaan Tibshraeny for is back-to-back heroics this weekend: firstly winning the Humewood Club Championship in a 36-hole final on Saturday, then lifting the St Francis Classic trophy the very next day. Seventy-plus holes of elite golf in 48 hours — phenomenal! Tiaan, was this perhaps your best golfing weekend ever?
A standout moment: Valentino Daniels achieved an albatross on the Par-5 6th, with a 247m piping hot three wood into the postage-stamp-sized green! An Albatross, the rarest of birds and only the second one recorded in EP Golf tournament play history. An extraordinary feat and a sign of great things to come. Congratulations young man!
Also congratulations to Johndré Ludick on earning his full Protea colours — we’re all so immensely proud of you Johndré, along with your family.
Golf in the Eastern Cape is in a good place!

The Eastern Province Senior Amateur Open Championship! ⛳️🇿🇦 Played at St Francis Bay Golf Club on 27–28 June 2026.

This event closed out the Eastern Cape swing on the national Order of Merit calendar. Players from across South Africa showed up to take on tight lines off the tees and tricky, grainy greens. Abrie Ackerman and Cameron Johnson set the early pace, carding a level round of 71 apiece at the end of day one, while the Southern Cape Golf Union star - Ivan Williams, was lurking one back. Remarkable, considering Williams played the course the last time in 2006. On day two Ivan gained on the leaders and had to hole out for a birdie on 18 to fend off Cameron Johnson, who made a very lengthy birdie putt of his own. 👏🏆

Here are some of the highlights and your winners - watch!

Huge thanks to St Francis Bay Golf Club and the Eastern Province Golf Union for hosting a first-class event — already lots of players committed for 2027. Save the date around this time next year, and add this one to your golfing plans! 📅⛳️🔥