Nobuhle Dlamini set the tone for her attempt at an amateur double in this week’s Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Championship when she won the 36-hole stroke play tournament at Milnerton Golf Club on Sunday. Photo: MVM
Nobuhle Dlamini emerged from Milnerton Golf Club’s Sunday afternoon mist with a two-stroke victory in the stroke play tournament.
The tournament was no more than a warm-up for her attempt at the double in this week’s Sanlam South African Women’s Amateur Championship.
The 36-hole stroke play serves as a seeding tournament for the main match play championship from Monday to Wednesday.
And Dlamini reinforced her status as favourite with her rounds of 75 and 68 for a total of one over par 143.
The tougher morning conditions saw Dlamini three off the shared lead of Ji Sun Kang, Vanessa Smith and Lara Weinstein after their rounds of one-over-par 72.
“That 68 gives me a lot of confidence going into the match play,” said Dlamini, who earlier this year won the Sanlam SA Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship by 12 strokes in Pretoria to set up her run at the double.
“I hit my driver better in the second round, and on the back nine in particular I putted really well.”
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