NATIONAL NEWS - It’s moving day at the SA Mid-Amateur Stroke Play Championship and Shaun Stapleton will have his job cut out to stave off an assault from defending champion Gerlou Roux and Ryan Dreyer at Silver Lakes Country Club.
Stapleton began Wednesday’s second round in a three-way tie for the lead on four under with Roux from Bellville Golf Club and Akasia’s Robert Gouws.
The software designer from Wanderers Golf Club mixed bogeys at four and 17 with birdies at seven, eight and 10 for a one-under-par 71 that will see Stapleton start the third round with a two shot advantage on five under 139.
Roux kept pace with Stapleton, but the country’s number one ranked player spoiled a solid round with a bogey-bogey finish to drop two shots off the pace with a 73.
Former Sanlam SA Amateur champion Dreyer notched birdies at two, seven and 15 to offset a lone drop at 13 for a two under 70 and a share of second on 141.
SECOND ROUND SCORES
139 Shaun Stapleton 68 71
141 Ryan Dreyer 71 70; Gerlou Roux 68 73
142 Elton James 69 73
143 Robert Gouws 68 75
146 Jannie Bronkhorst 74 72; David Muller 72 74; Josef Fourie 70 76
147 Johann Nel 75 72; Sean Olfsen 74 73; Danie Viljoen 72 75
149 Craig Collins 75 74; Pieter Cooper 75 74; Gustav Verster 73 76; Kalvin Parsons 71 78
150 Dylan Keylock 76 74; Donovan Pearse 75 75; Jan Delport 71 79
151 Stefan Blommaert 77 74; Menno Malherbe 76 75; Alex van Heerden 75 76; Neil Rathmann 74 77; Cameron Johnston 70 81
152 Dino De Abreu 77 75; Bennie van Loggerenberg 73 79; Sean Quigley 71 81
153 Tyran van Lieshout 75 78; Chase Manna 70 83
154 Lawrence Joubert 78 76; Henk Geldenhuys 78 76; Pieter Swartz 77 77; Jean-Pierre Meyer 74 80
155 Pierre Spies 78 77; Johan du Toit 77 78; Jauqo Jacobs 76 79; Sean Coetzee 75 80; Johan Grobbelaar 75 80
156 Rowan du Preez 82 74; Jacques van schalkwyk 80 76; Shaun Mulligan 79 77; Cristo Bosman 77 79; Logan Lofstedt 74 82; Andre du Bruyn 74 82
157 Clifton Stanley 79 78; Alain Norris 78 79; Martin Kraft 77 80; Joe Mnyandu 73 84
158 Gerhard Scheepers 76 82; Neil Homann 74 84
159 Hendre Scheepers 84 75; Ernest Botha 81 78; Gary Pettit 80 79; Timothy Rautenbach 78 81; Jurgens Moolman 75 84
160 Peter Msiza 81 79; Louis Jonck 78 82
161 Hans Queisser 80 81; Shane Thompson 79 82; Henry Roodt 79 82
162 Evan Mackenzie 82 80; Johan (CJ) Jansen van Vuuren 81 81; Phillip Croukamp 81 81; Brad Ross-Jones 79 83; Greg Upneck 78 84; Greg Heuer 77 85; Mark Matthews 76 86
163 Dean Armitage 81 82; Johan van Rooyen 80 83; Barend Bredenhann 79 84
164 Udesh Pillay 78 86
166 Stefan Hulme 87 79; Elvin Nel 83 83; Dirk Johannes Venter 82 84; Michael Drummond 81 85; Ray Henry Matthews 79 87
167 Andre Spies 85 82; Pierre Du Bruyn 84 83; Christiaan Boshoff 83 84
168 Lukas Malan 79 89
169 Andrew Pollock 86 83
170 Phil van der Westhuizen 79 91
171 Johan van der Merwe 87 84; Thekwini Andrew Ncongwane 86 85; Craig Bell 84 87
174 Gustav Erasmus 86 88
175 Hardus Maritz 86 89
176 Charles Olivier 81 95
177 Andrew Haasbroek 88 89
178 Donovan Grobler 84 94
180 Herman Matthee 93 87
183 Corne Basson 97 86
WD Martyn Wissing 85 WD
WD Steve Williams 79 80; Kevin Sharp 79 81
ARTICLE: LALI STANDER
