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Career Highlights Ashleigh is a member of Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club, which she joined on 12th May 1999 at the age of 10. Her current handicap is (+1). Ashleigh has represented the Ladies scratch league side in 2002, 2003 and will again play number one in 2004. Ashleigh has won the Ladies Club Championships in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 as well the Champion of Champions Tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Ashleigh won her first ladies club championships at Royal Johannesburg Kensington Golf Club at age 12 in 2001 and has gone on to win it for four years in a row. In 2001 Ash won the Junior Club Championships, the ladies club championship, the top 16 knock out and the singles knock out and has since gone on to win these events more than once In 2001 at 12 she was selected as the youngest player for the Gauteng Interprovincial team. In 2002 she was selected to play for South Africa against the Netherlands, won the Western Province under 21 championships, represented Gauteng at Interprovincial and won the Junior Foundation Summer Festival tournament with a stroke average of 69.5 for the six tournaments. In 2003 she finished leading amateur on the WPGA Ladies Professional tour for the four tournaments. Ashleigh won the KwaZulu Natal Championships, winning both junior and senior strokeplay titles as well as the matchplay title. She also won the Gauteng Matchplay championship, Champion of Champions Tournament and the North Gauteng Strokeplay championship. She finished runner up in the Jack Newton International in Australia and was selected to play South Africa in New Zealand, becoming the youngest golfer ever to be awarded Senior South African colours at age 14, and was the youngest player at the tournament. In July 2003 she took part in the Callaway Junior World Championships finishing 4th in her age group (13-14 years) She was winner of the 2003 Complete Golfer Lady Amateur of the year award and finished leading amateur on the junior and senior order of merit for 2003, a position she still holds today 2004 has been a sparkling year for Ashleigh, starting with her win in February at the Eastern Province Strokeplay Championship in PE. In February she was invited by Johan Rupert to play the Men’s Tour Championship at Leopard Creek becoming the first South African woman to play on the Men’s tour. In March she became the youngest ever winner at age 14 of the South African Ladies Amateur Strokeplay/Matchplay completing the double The week after that she became the youngest winner of a WPGA tour event winning the SA Open. She is the only amateur ever to win the Ladies SA Open. The last time an amateur won an SA Open title was in 1959 won by Dennis Hutchinson. She started the final day 8 shots behind the Swede Westerberg, carding a final round of 9 under 63 to win the Open. The next two weeks saw her finish second in the Pam Golding International at Glendower and 2nd in the Telkom Classic at Randpark. The final WPGA event the Nedbank Masters, saw Ashleigh finish 19th. Had she been legible for the prize money she would have finished 2nd on the order of merit. She did however finish 2nd in the stroke averages for the four tournaments with a stroke average of 70.58 In April she defended her KwaZulu Natal strokeplay championship title, and in May won the Gauteng strokeplay championship. In June she won the Gauteng Junior Championships, the Champion of Champions tournament and the Gauteng North Championships. Ashleigh returned from a successful trip in the USA, finishing 8th in the Rolex Tournament of Champions and 5th in the Callaway Junior World Championships (age 15-17). Ashleigh has been selected to represent South Africa in October at the World Amateur Teams Championships in Puerto Rico. Ashleigh has recently returned from Australia having won the Jack Newton Jnr International. In July 2004 Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club bestowed honorary life membership on Ashleigh at the age of 15. Ashleigh won the Junior Club Championships at Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club for the 2nd time in three years in September 2004 defeating a full boys field. The WPGA has selected Ashleigh to represent South Africa together with Laurette Maritz in the inaugural Women’s World Cup at Fancourt Links in February 2005. 2004 South African Amateur Strokeplay and Matchplay winner 2004 South African Open Champion 2004 Jack Newton Invitational Champion (played in Australia) 2005 Represented South Africa in the Inaugural Women’s World Cup held at Fancourt 2005 Pam Golding International Champion 2005 South African Amateur Strokeplay Champion Represented South Africa three times at national amateur level. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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