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October 19, 2017

“Mental strength” gives Hess BET Champs victory

Jacquin Hess entered the final round of the Big Easy Tour Championship tournament held at Observatory Golf Club trailing by five shots, but a strong seven-under-par 65 final round earned him his maiden Big Easy win while also winning the tour’s Order of Merit. “I showed some guts to come back from a two-shot penalty […]


October 18, 2017

Groenewald leads at Observatory ahead of final round

Coert Groenewald carded a second round seven-under-par 65 at Observatory Golf Club and said a proper warm-up did the trick as he moved to 10-under for the week and climb to first on the leaderboard ahead of the final round. “Today I got going a bit quicker,” said Groenewald. “Yesterday, the front nine and playing […]


October 17, 2017

Calm Hess leads by a shot at Observatory

Jacquin Hess says he had to remain calm on his way to posting a flawless four-under-par 68 opening round of the Big Easy Tour Championship at Observatory Golf Club and take a one-shot lead in windy conditions on Tuesday. “Today I just came out and said ‘OK, don’t put pressure on yourself’, because that’s what […]


October 16, 2017

Van den Bergh seeks main tour form at BET Champs

Desne van den Bergh needed a win or a second-place finish at last year’s Big Easy Tour Championship to earn himself a Sunshine Tour playing card and his objective was achieved as he came in a share of second with Bryandrew Roelofsz, two shots behind eventual winner Jason Viljoen. “Last year it was tough out […]


Roelofsz not getting ahead of himself at Observatory

Despite winning the penultimate tournament of the Big Easy Tour which was the BET King’s Cup in Swaziland two weeks ago, last year’s runner-up in the BET Championship, the final event on this circuit, Bryandrew Roelofsz insist he is under no pressure to want to better last year’s result this week at Observatory Golf Club. […]


October 6, 2017

Roelofsz wins King’s Cup

Bryandrew Roelofsz recently got a new set of irons and he put them to good use this week en route to winning the Big Easy King’s Cup by 14-under-par 247, a shot clear of the chasing players at Royal Swazi Spa. “I am so chuffed,” he said after his seven-under-par final round in which he […]


October 5, 2017

De Villiers takes King’s Cup lead on moving day

Jacques P de Villiers shot two-under-par 70 in round three of the Big Easy King’s Cup to total 13-under for the tournament and usurp Dongkwan Kim from the summit of the leaderboard ahead of the final round. He went into the third round trailing by a single shot behind Kim on 11-under, and eventually took […]