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16 February 2012
3 Young KeNako professionals in the field at Fancourt
The Dimension Data Pro Am is one of the feature events on the Sunshine Tour and is being played at Fancourt this week. 3 Young professional golfers namely Derick Petersen, Heinrich Bruiners and Regie Adams work with the team of professionals at KeNako Academy and all 3 are in the field this week.Read more
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14 February 2012
KeNako Junior Series successfully launched!
Sunday 12th February saw the launch of the KeNako Junior Series. This series of tournaments has been created to allow junior players (both boys and girls) greater opportunity to play competitive medal golf. The intention is to play 9 or 10 tournaments during the course of the year, all during school terms. The KeNako Junior Series will be played between the Southern Cape Junior tournaments. Read more
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23 January 2012
KeNako Students play a role at the Volvo Championship
The KeNako students were involved as on-course ball spotters or in some form of marshalling capacity at last week's Volvo Golf Champions played at The Links golf course. The boys and girls got a close up view of some of the best players in the world and thoroughly enjoyed their experience, which included getting wet in the rain that arrived on day 3 of the tournament. The students experienced long days, having to be at The Links around 07h30 each morning and only returning to the academy late each afternoon.Read more
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18 November 2011
Roger Wessels plays first 'official' tournament in 8 Years!
Roger Wessels, a man hugely respected within professional golf ranks in South Africa and in other parts of the world, played in his first 'official' event since retiring from competitive golf in 2003. Roger was invited to play as a senior professional golfer in the Gary Player Invitational at Zimbali Country Club in Durban mid-November. The format includes only 8 fourballs with each fourball made up of a regular touring professional golfer, a senior professional golfer, a celebrity guest and a business person.Read more
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3 November 2011
Breyten and Garen take a Step Up the Ladder
There comes a time in everyone's career when a milestone is reached or a performance produced that is beyond the player's expectations. It is a winning mindset that boosts self confidence and self belief. Great performances are a fantastic reward for all of the time and effort spent practicing and provide the motivation and the focus to keep on practicing and improving. Two of KeNako's students (Breyten Meyer and Garen Niemand) had a wonderful tournament at Kingswood Golf Estate this past Sunday where conditions weren't ideal for good scoring but they found their groove and produced two outstanding performances.Read more
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30 October 2011
KeNako Annual Awards
The annual KeNako Academy awards took place on Saturday 29th October 2011. Many parents travelled down to George to join the students for this special evening function, including Rajeev Mediratta, who travelled all the way from Kenya. It was excellent having all of the parents at KeNako and their effort in travelling down to George is much appreciated. In years to come the Awards Evening will become one of KeNako's major annual events and the academy looks forward to having ex-students join us at this annual event. The KeNako Annual Awards are in recognition of performance, improvement and diligence in the KeNako Golf, Skills for Life, Academic and English programs. The evening started with some welcome drinks for the adults followed by the awards ceremony in the auditorium. Read more
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17 October 2011
KeNako SA Boys U/12's -SUPER SUCCESSFUL!
The KeNako SA Boys U/12 tournament was an amazing success. The young girls and boys from all parts of the country endured an unpleasant practice day on Sunday, but it did little to dampen their enthusiasm and they quite literally bubbled over into the KeNako Academy on Sunday evening for their team meetings and to listen to the rules and regulations of the week.Read more
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27 September 2011
Spring sees KeNako students blossoming in Southern Cape Junior Golf
Kingswood Golf Estate hosted September�s very successful Southern Cape Junior Golf event. Before going into detail about the tournament, mention must be made of the wonderful condition of Kingswood Golf Estate. If you are an avid golfer and enjoy good fairways and great greens then do yourself a favour and play Kingswood! The junior tournament was played in perfect conditions and scoring on what is a tough golf course was very good across all divisions.Read more
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19 September 2011
KeNako SA Boys u.12s
SOUTHERN CAPE NEWS - The SA Boys u.12 event is a relatively new golfing event on the South African golfing calendar, played for the first time in 2006. It was the brainchild of Peter Little and the WPGU and has been hosted at Clovelly Golf Club in Cape Town since its launch. A decision was taken in 2010 to move the tournament to a different venue and the KeNako Academy in George came forward as a sponsor to host the event, making the choice of the Southern Cape as host province for 2011 an easy one.Read more
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19 August 2011
KeNako SA Boys U12�s Comes to George
Ron Boon, Chairman of the KeNako Academy, has announced that the KeNako Academy is sponsoring the SA Boys U12 Nationals for 2011. In announcing KeNako�s involvement in the event, Ron said �This is an exciting event for KeNako Academy and the town of George to be hosting. The KeNako SA Boys U12�s will see many families from all parts of the country travelling to George for the week of the tournament. In these tough economic times such events make a difference to George...Read more
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27 July 2011
Congratulations toBreyten Meyer
On winning the Southern Cape Match Play in foul weather conditions at Oubaai on Sunday. He beat James Faber from Plettenberg Bay 6 and 5. Stafie Barnard lost to fellow George Golf Club Member Wesley Gibbon 2 and 1 in the final of the plate division on the same day.
Breyten flies to Germany on Sunday to participate in the Harder German Junior Masters event, we wish him the best of luck!
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23 June 2011
Another good result for Breyten
Breyten Meyer has been involved with the Academy from the beginning, first as a school student and now as a post school graduate and while his game showed consistent improvement when he was at school it is progressing in leaps and bounds now that he has finished and is devoting more time to the game. His tournament results this year have provided motivation � success breeds success � to keep up the good work he is doing on the range and a lull in the tournament schedule has given him the opportunity to improve his physicalconditioning at Kenako...Read more
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13 June 2011
KeNako boys shine at Glacier Series tournament at Oubaai
Two KeNako boys played very well in the Glacier Series tournament held at Oubaai this past weekend. Glacier are putting on a total 30 junior tournaments around the country and the Southern Cape tournament attracted the best local junior players together with players from other regions including Cape Town and Johannesburg.Read more
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13 June 2011
Kyle Barker Wins SWD Primary School Championships
KeNako Academy�s youngest student Kyle Barker had a fantastic win at Oubaai at the end of May. 9 Schools from the SWD Region sent a team to play in the SWD Primary Schools Championship qualifier. Each team was represented by four players. The boys represented the best junior school players in the Southern Cape region including most of the Southern Cape U12 team. Kyle, who is a Grade 7 student at Glenwood House School and who joined the KeNako Academy student programme at the beginning of 2011, played an outstanding one over par gross score from the men�s tees for the 9 hole competition and was the Overall Individual Winner. Kyle is from Johannesburg and was an excellent all round sportsman, but decided at his young age that golf is his passion. He is making excellent progress at KeNako and he is a boy with a bright future. Well played Kyle!
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30 May 2011
AWonderful win
There is nothing like a win to boost your confidence and provide one with the hunger for more success, a young professional by the name of Derick Petersen won his maiden tour victory this past week, very exciting and rewarding for Derick and the KeNako Team. Derick started working with KeNako in February this year after a few frustrating years where his career had stalled and he was beginning to have doubts about his ability to make it as a tour player.
Derick is a promising player with immense talent and from a KeNako point of view it has been a matter of showing him how to harness that talent through constructive practice on the range, in the gym and applying the correct mental skills. Derick had to address his course management skills as well and the improvements in this area are evident in his win. He is now on top of the Big Easy Tour order of merit and has a very good chance of remaining on there through his new found discipline and work ethic.
We have all enjoyed working with Derick these past few months and see no reason why he cannot achieve the goals he has set himself with his determination and application.
Good luck Derick and keep up the hard work.
Roger Wessels.
Director of Coaching.
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12 May 2011
Success breeds Success
28 South Africans have now won a tournament on the European Tour after Thomas Aiken�s win in the Spanish Open � astounding for a country the size of South Africa. His win has been a long time coming but it follows on the enormous success South Africans have had over the past year - Ernie Els, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Rory Sabbatini and Thomas have all won in the current season and Tim Clark won the so called 5th Major last year. The younger guys are certainly feeding off each other realising that if their mate can win then perhaps they can as well.Read more
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04 May 2011
KeNako Golf & Wellness Interview with James Goodman ( Video )
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07 April 2011
KeNako SA World Juniors a Resounding Success
Boys and girls aged 19 and under; and from 19 different countries of the world participated in this officially sanctioned World Junior Golf Series event.� Feedback received suggests that this is the finest junior golf tournament ever played in South Africa, whilst many international players and their families have said that this was the best junior tournament that they have ever attended anywhere in the world!� Such high praise does justice to the huge effort that went into putting the tournament together.� Since this was our first ever event things can only get even better so roll on 2012!..Read more
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