Africa Open Golf Challenge
After the first day of the 2012 Africa Open Golf Challange at East London Golf Course in East London, South Africa, Thomas Aiken leads the field at 9 under par. Playing on home soil the south African hit a 64 on the par 73 golf course to finish a shot ahead of Retief Goosen and Jaco Ahlers who are tied in second place at 8 under par. See below for the full leaderboard and results after the first round of the Africa Open Golf Challenge.
Africa Open Leaderboard: First Round
| Position | Players | Round One | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Aiken | 64 | -9 |
| 2 | Retief Goosen | 65 | -8 |
| 2 | Jaco Ahlers | 65 | -8 |
| 4 | Phillip Price | 66 | -7 |
| 4 | Michael Du Toit | 66 | -7 |
| 4 | Dean O’Riley | 66 | -7 |
| 7 | Maarten Lafeber | 67 | -6 |
| 7 | Charles-edouard Russo | 67 | -6 |
| 7 | Rich Bland | 67 | -6 |
| 7 | Jj Senekal | 67 | -6 |
| 7 | Danny Willett | 67 | -6 |
| 7 | Shaun Norris | 67 | -6 |
| 13 | Garth Mulroy | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Jordi Garcia pinto | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Federico Colombo | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Taco Remkes | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Craig Lee | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Peter Karmis | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Jg Claassen | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Julien Guerrier | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Augustin Domingo | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | David Howell | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Tyrone Ferreira | 68 | -5 |
| 13 | Tim Sluiter | 68 | -5 |
| 25 | Ruan De smidt | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Sam Walker | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Keith Horne | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Theunis Spangenberg | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Alastair Forsyth | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Richard Sterne | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Louis Oosthuizen | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Tommy Fleetwood | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Adam Gee | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Adilson da Silva | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Bryce Easton | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Desvonde Botes | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Julien Quesne | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Tjaart van der Walt | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Simon Thornton | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Jake Roos | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Allan Versfeld | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Merrick Bremner | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Chris Wood | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Wil Besseling | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Scott Pinckney | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Grant Muller | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Josh Cunliffe | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Edouard Dubois | 69 | -4 |
| 25 | Magnus Carlsson | 69 | -4 |
| 50 | Graham Van der merwe | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Danie Van Tonder | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Ockie Strydom | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Oliver Wilson | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Benn Barham | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Doug McGuigan | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Alessandro Tadini | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Pelle Edberg | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Jamie Elson | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Oliver Bekker | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Knut Borsheim | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Roope Kakko | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | David Hewan | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Jacques Blaauw | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | James Kingston | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Adrian Otaegui | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Matthew Nixon | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Sam Little | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Dawie Van Der Walt | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Steven O’Hara | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Jamie Moul | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Ulrich Van Den Berg | 70 | -3 |
| 50 | Alan McLean | 70 | -3 |
| 73 | Thabo Maseko | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Neil Schietekat | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Jaco Van Zyl | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Joel Sjoholm | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | George Coetzee | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Bernd Ritthammer | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Steven Jeppesen | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | John Parry | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Albertus Pistorius | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Raymond Russell | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Markus Brier | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Jean Baptiste Gonnet | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Warren Abery | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Andrew Sullivan | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Ryan Tipping | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Darren Fichardt | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Justin Harding | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Ariel Canete | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Reinier Saxton | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Neil Cheetham | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Jorge Campillo | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Trevor Fisher Jr. | 71 | -2 |
| 73 | Robert Dinwiddie | 71 | -2 |
| 96 | Matthew Baldwin | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Ricardo Santos | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | George Murray | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Chris Gane | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Daniel Greene | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Jean Hugo | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Christiaan Basson | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Peter Gustafsson | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Alex Haindl | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Thomas Norret | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Paul Bradshaw | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Daniel Denison | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Alvaro Velasco | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Peter Hedblom | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | David Drysdale | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Michiel Bothma | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Hendrik Buhrmann | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Robert Wiederkehr | 72 | -1 |
| 96 | Matthew Carvell | 72 | -1 |
| 115 | Bradford Vaughan | 73 | E |
| 115 | Daniel Gaunt | 73 | E |
| 115 | Lyle Rowe | 73 | E |
| 115 | Andrew Curlewis | 73 | E |
| 115 | Sam Hutsby | 73 | E |
| 115 | Benjamin Hebert | 73 | E |
| 115 | Andrew Johnston | 73 | E |
| 115 | Peter- Henric McIntyre | 73 | E |
| 115 | Vaughn Groenewald | 73 | E |
| 115 | Guillaume Cambis | 73 | E |
| 115 | Lloyd Saltman | 73 | E |
| 115 | Reggie Adams | 73 | E |
| 115 | Philip Archer | 73 | E |
| 115 | Scott Strange | 73 | E |
| 115 | Justin Walters | 73 | E |
| 115 | Andrea Pavan | 73 | E |
| 115 | Emiliano Grillo | 73 | E |
| 115 | Matthew Southgate | 73 | E |
| 115 | John Peterson | 73 | E |
| 115 | Hans Peter Bacher | 73 | E |
| 115 | Greg Petzer | 73 | E |
| 136 | Titch Moore | 74 | 1 |
| 136 | Martin Maritz | 74 | 1 |
| 136 | Divan Van Den Heever | 74 | 1 |
| 136 | Lloyd Kennedy | 74 | 1 |
| 136 | Andre Cruse | 74 | 1 |
| 136 | Damien McGrane | 74 | 1 |
| 136 | Chris Swanepoel Jr. | 74 | 1 |
| 136 | Andrew Marshall | 74 | 1 |
| 136 | Tyrone Mordt | 74 | 1 |
| 145 | Prinavin Nelson | 75 | 2 |
| 145 | Andrew Georgiou | 75 | 2 |
| 145 | Jbe’ Kruger | 75 | 2 |
| 145 | Mikael Lundberg | 75 | 2 |
| 149 | Richard Finch | 76 | 3 |
| 149 | Colin Nel | 76 | 3 |
| 149 | Thomas Lovett | 76 | 3 |
| 149 | Victor Riu | 76 | 3 |
| 153 | Branden Grace | 77 | 4 |
| 153 | Brandon Pieters | 77 | 4 |
| 155 | Adrien Bernadet | 80 | 7 |
| 156 | Alpheus Kelapile | 83 | 10 |
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I love golf but don’t play nearly enough. My favorite club is my trusty Taylor Made Supersteel 5 wood, I use it off the tee, on the fairway and in the rough. I’ve been writing for Golf & Course for nearly a year.
