PGA Club Pro’s Tee-Up for 2nd World Club ProAm

The PGA of SA World Club ProAm has made its mark on the annual calendar and is setting the new benchmark for Club Professionals to compete internationally, both individually and as a team with their amateurs. This world-first truly global event, with its unique format of 90 holes across five different courses, captured the attention of Professionals around the world and has them booked to return to KwaZulu-Natal to compete in the second World Club ProAm next year from 14 – 21 February. 

Among the PGA World Alliance Club Professionals who have registered to play next year, is the 2014 World Club ProAm winner and titleholder, Henrik Engdahll, from the PGA of Sweden. Henrik will be returning with his three amateurs to defend his title in the professional individual stableford and the team title.

“My team was ‘over the moon’ about the World Club ProAm, which made it a very easy decision to return to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa next year. The world-class variety of championship courses that we played meant that you had to constantly adjust your game, which created an enjoyable challenge each day,” says Henrik, who also currently holds the individual title for the 2013 Black Sea Rama ProAm in Bulgaria and the Titanic ProAm in Turkey.

This year Henrik has competed in the BB-masters in Berlin where he finished T3 after what he describes as a ‘very stiff competition’. Thereafter he played the Aegean Airlines Pro-Am in June and has events booked across Europe and the USA for the latter part of the year.

Also returning to the World Club ProAm is 2nd place winner, Aaron Cox from Caboolture Golf Club in Sydney, who says he is looking forward to stepping back onto the tee-boxes of KwaZulu-Natal’s championship courses.

Aaron, who played the Tahiti Open in July and will be competing in the Vanuatu Open in September, commented on his return to the World Club ProAm saying, “The selection of host courses are a true test of golf for all the players who compete. Travelling to South Africa for the first time last year and competing on an international level where I could test my game against PGA Club Professionals around the world was a unique and fantastic experience. I was very happy to finish 2nd and I'm hoping to go one better in 2015”.

Locally, Roger Wessels, a man hugely respected within the professional golf ranks, will also be joining the international Club Professionals on the tee-box after retiring from tournament golf in 2003. He is best known for winning on the Southern Africa Tour (later known as the Sunshine Tour), the SA PGA Championship and for his representation of South Africa in the World Cup in 1994.

Chief Executive of the PGA of South Africa, Ivano Ficalbi, concluded, “With just over 4 months to go until we tee-off for the second time, we are thrilled with the enthusiasm of the PGA Club Professionals to return and compete again next year. This is testament to the fact that this tournament has truly created a unique and challenging platform for PGA Professionals and we look forward to seeing the World Club ProAm become the sought after ProAm golfing title”.

For more information on the PGA of SA World Club ProAm and to enter, visit www.worldclubproam.com