What started as a WhatsApp group between eight golfers hoping to make a difference quickly grew into one of the Sanlam Cancer Challenge’s biggest charity contributions this year.
The ‘Omeya Musketeers’ is a group of eight golfers from Omeya Golf Estate in Windhoek, Namibia, who have raised an incredible R160 000 for this year’s Sanlam Cancer Challenge in aid of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA).
It is one of the largest sums raised at an individual golf day on this year’s Sanlam Cancer Challenge, along with the R409 810 raised by the golfers at Magersfontein Memorial Golf Estate in the Northern Cape and the R175 000 raised by the members of Fancourt in George.
‘We’ve been involved with the Sanlam Cancer Challenge for many years and to celebrate the 25thanniversary of the partnership between this great competition and CANSA we wanted to do something special,’ says Riaan Liebenberg, who drove the initiative.
‘We had a WhatsApp group and it just grew from there. We decided to host our own golf day just a day before the club’s official Sanlam Cancer Challenge golf day. And then we got to work inviting teams and getting donations and prizes. We had 21 teams taking part and are extremely grateful for what we could raise.’
Namibian golfers are traditionally some of the strongest supporters of the Sanlam Cancer Challenge and regularly feature at the National Finals of the competition.
The 2017 club competitions finish in June and are followed by the respective Regional Finals from July to August where hundreds of golfers will be attempting to qualify for the National Finals at Sun City from 9-10 October, and played on both the Gary Player Country Club and Lost City Golf Club courses.
For more information go to www.sanlamcancerchallenge.co.za
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