‘Musketeers’ pitch in for Sanlam Cancer Challenge

Last Friday Omeya made history when they hosted the first ever Cancer Golf Day organised by the “Omeya Musketeers”.What started as a WhatsApp group between eight golfers hoping to make a difference, quickly grew into one of the Sanlam Cancer Challenge’s biggest charity contributions this year.The “Omeya Musketeers” is a group of eight golfers from Omeya Golf Estate in Windhoek, Namibia, who have raised an incredible R160 000 for this year’s Sanlam Cancer Challenge in aid of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA).It is one of the largest sums raised at an individual golf day on this year’s Sanlam Cancer Challenge, along with the R409 810 raised by the golfers at Magersfontein Memorial Golf Estate in the Northern Cape and the R175 000 raised by the members of Fancourt in George.“We’ve been involved with the Sanlam Cancer Challenge for many years and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the partnership between this great competition and CANSA we wanted to do something special,” says Riaan Liebenberg, who drove the initiative.“We had a WhatsApp group and it just grew from there. We decided to host our own golf day just a day before the club’s official Sanlam Cancer Challenge golf day. And then we got to work inviting teams and getting donations and prizes. We had 21 teams taking part and are extremely grateful for what we could raise.”Namibian golfers are traditionally some of the strongest supporters of the Sanlam Cancer Challenge and regularly feature at the National Finals of the competition.The 2017 club competitions finish in June and are followed by the respective Regional Finals from July to August, where hundreds of golfers will be attempting to qualify for the National Finals at Sun City from 9-10 October, and played on both the Gary Player Country Club and Lost City Golf Club courses.Omeya Golf Club would like to thank the eight Musketeers for the effort and passion and looks forward to growing this event from year to year!• The Cancer Golf Day was followed by the club’s Sanlam Cancer Challenge qualifier last Saturday. A healthy field of 62 players participated on the day, trying to qualify for the regional final to be played also at Omeya on 19 August. The winners were:Men’s A division: Abrie van Wyk on 40 points (winner on count-out)Men’s B division: Gerhard de Wet on 39 pointsMen’s C division: Adri Vermeulen on 38 points (count-out)Women’s C division: Jane Liebenberg on 37 pointsWomen’s B division: Min Deng on 34 points (count-out)Women’s A division: Adri Pienaar on 32 points (count-out)• Today Omeya plays host yet again to Round 1 of the Windhoek Lager International Pairs SA Finals 2017.Twenty-four betterball teams who qualified from all over South Africa will compete in the 36 holes final of which round 1 will be played at Omeya and players will then move over to Windhoek Golf & Country Club for the second and final round.Omeya Management would like to thank Ian Stevenson and Windhoek Lager for supporting amateur golf in Namibia and for setting up one of the most sought after series of events, namely the Windhoek Lager Pairs.• Tomorrow the AfricaOnline Race to Omeya Members Cup series head into round 6.Things are heating up on the final order of merits with players trying to move up to secure their spot in the two respective Omeya Members Cup teams. Herewith the tee-off times:First tee08:30 D Jansen, D Prinsloo, G Wise, Gielie van Wyk.08:40 J van den Heever, G de Klerk, Gerbie van Wyk, G de Wet.08:50 G Howard, J van Reenen, R Liebenberg, J Liebenberg.09:00 L Dreyer, D Zwiebel, S Smith, F Graupe.09:10 X Erasmus, I Wait, S Salt, J Bruwer.09:20 J Steyn, F van Straten, R Luyt, H de Villiers.09:30 N Groenewald (Snr), J Labuschagne, N Groenewald (Jnr), M Thom.09:40 S Venter, R Carstens, J Knoetze.09:50 A Vermeulen, S Vermeulen, R Joseph.10:00 E Wessels, A Wessels, G Lambert, A Kuhn.10:10 J Martin, D Moyo, B Gasela, M Shoozi.10:20 R Kuhn, J Kuhn, R Ludwig, J Crafford.10:30 A van Dyk, A du Pisani, Z du Pisani.Tenth tee08:30 D de Man, L du Pisani, A Muller (Snr), A Muller (Jnr).08:40 L Hess, C Claasen, L Beukes, E Nitschke.08:50 P Johns, C Fourie, B Erasmus, W Krugel.09:00 T Nel, M Burger, F Viljoen, F Ellis.09:10 J Muller, A Williams, T Viljoen.09:20 M Engelbrecht, E Lofty-Eaton, D du Rand, F Nel.09:30 S Pienaar, A Pienaar, J Vermeulen, S van der Merwe.09:40 M Steytler, H Steytler, R Kruger, U Etzold.09:50 P Verburg (Jnr), E Verburg, R Verburg, M Reiter.10:00 G Jung, J Horn, W Triegaardt, T Mills.10:10 M Beaves, F Oosthuizen, K Gardener, G Vink.10:20 E Weder, K Howard, C Dodds.10:30 J Steenkamp, E Marais, A Bean, L Smit.

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