Joburg Ladies Open Pro-Am to set the scene for the spectacular tournament
A total of 48 professional golfers and 72 amateurs have been invited to participate in this year’s Joburg Ladies Open Pro-Am, which is a four-ball alliance with two to count.
The Pro-Am will tee-off on Tuesday, 16 April at the Modderfontein Golf Club, east of Johannesburg. It is a prelude to the Joburg Open Ladies International Golf Tournament, which tees-off from Thursday, 18 April to Sunday, 21April 2024.
The tournament will kick-start with the Pro-Am which will feature professional and amateur players eager to hit the fairways of the famed par-72 golf course with 18 holes. Modderfontein Golf Club, on the other hand, the golf course presents its own obstacles; the layout is parkland, with firm greens, tree-lined fairways, and a sizable number of ponds.
The splash for dignity campaign with every ball that lands in water a player will be fine and the money will contribute to the “Dignity for a Girl Child” initiative.
Some of the elite golfers playing in the Pro-Am include South African professional golfer Lee-Anne Pace who won the Joburg Ladies Open in 2016 and secured herself a runner up position in 2021, Nicole Garcia, Casandra Alexander the Joburg Ladies Open winner in 2021 at Soweto Country Club, and the defending champion Lily May Humphreys.
Amateurs on the field of play have been afforded a once in a lifetime opportunity to play next to two professional golfers. At the tee box, amateurs start with a professional and at the ninth hole a new professional join their team to the end.
This year’s batch of amateurs are made of the promising and brilliant amateurs destined to challenge Modderfontein greens and make it to the top.