‘Stay in the moment’ says new British Amateur Champ

Seventeen-year-old Aldrich Potgieter, made history on Saturday, 18 June by becoming the second-youngest person only to win the 127th British Amateur Golf Championship.

Journalist Cornelle Carstens

Wednesday, 22 June 2022, 08:38
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‘Stay in the moment’ says new British Amateur Champ
Petrie Cronje of the Louis57 Foundation and Aldrich Potgieter.

GOLF NEWS AND VIDEO - Seventeen-year-old Aldrich Potgieter, made history on Saturday, 18 June by becoming the second-youngest person only to win the 127th British Amateur Golf Championship. 

Potgieter is a proud member of the Louis Oosthuizen Junior Golf Academy in the South Cape. 

This “cool customer” returned to his hometown Mossel Bay on Monday, 20 June and spoke to the Mossel Bay Advertiser today, 21 June at Pinnacle Point about his success and his future. 

Potgieter had several interviews with other media today but had his first media engagement on home turf exclusively with the Advertiser’s news editor, Cornelle Carstens.

VIDEO - ‘Stay in the moment’ says 17 year old British Amateur Champ (Video: Cornelle Carstens).


Aldrich Potgieter

Adele, Aldrich and Heinrich Potgieter. Photos: Cornelle Carstens

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