Lydia Ko says she would rather grace the fairways on the golf course than strut down the catwalk after appearing on the cover of the latest edition of Vogue in South Korea.

Dean Burmester said it best when he looked out over Durban Country Club and the spectacular staging ahead of this week’s Investec South African Open and declared, “I feel incredibly proud”.

Kesha Louw cemented her status as GolfRSA’s No 1 amateur with a come-from-behind play-off victory in the South African Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship.