Compleat Golfer

Compleat Golfer is the longest standing South Africa golf magazine and has been entertaining golfers for more than twenty years. Covering all aspects of the game, both locally and internationally, and focusing on courses, equipment, travel and instruction, it’s a one-stop shop for golfers looking to be educated and inspired about the game they love.

WELCOME • Thriston Lawrence came agonisingly close to becoming the fifth South African men's golfer to win The Open. Ultimately he was outdone by the brilliance of Xander Schauffele. It took one of the great final rounds to lift the Claret Jug.

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Did you miss this? • Another of our selection of some of the stranger stories that have made the news over the past month or so

A One-off Experience • Compleat Golfer‘s playing editor represented Team South Africa at golf in the Olympics in 2016, the first time it had been in a Games in 112 years. Here he reflects on that experience

XANDER HAS THE X-FACTOR • It took one of the great closing rounds in championship history to deny Thriston Lawrence a Major win. By the end, the new champion was on another level

FROM PARIAH TO POSTER BOY • The 2024 US Open champion has done the unlikely: made a cynical, suspicious public fall in love with him all over again.

WHEN MEMORIES BEAT MONEY • The Olympics is a unique experience and golf is back for its third Games in Over a hundred years. The growing feeling is that thay're not actually the inconvenience that golfers thought they were.

THE BEST DRILLS ON THE PLANET It's a set-up • If your set-up is good, chances are your shot will be too, stresses PGA professional Grant Hepburn

Target Practice • The latest in our ongoing series of advice columns by one of South Africa's leaders in the wellness and fitness space

Lost Tape And Lost Balls • Another in our informative series of columns from one of the Sunshine Tour's leading officials to help you get the most from your game

T.N.T OF THE EAST • Centrally located in Gauteng, Modderfontein Golf Club's success is endorsed by its rankings as well as high rounds year on year.

MODDERFONTEIN GOLF CLUB • 15th hole, par four, 427m

Grow Up. It's A Game

Short & Sweet • This month we asked manufacturers in South Africa to let us know what they have available when it comes to one of the most important clubs in the bag

Cream rises to the top • Another in our regular roundups of news featuring South Africa's amateur golfers as overseen

UNITED BY GOLF • Compleant Golfer is media partner to Els for Autism and this month we highlight some off-the-course developments

When Bad Luck Strikes • I came back to South Africa for 10 days after the Women's PGA Championship where I had another interesting experience.

AUGUST • PICK OF THE MONTH AIG WOMEN'S OPEN 22-25 AUGUST

Supermac Sparkles • This month in our series on southern Africa's most momentous achievers, we have a look at how Mark McNulty won the SA Open in 2001.

PLOTTING A PATH • A product of the first GolfRSA squad is starting to make waves. Here we catch up with a player looking to make a mark on the Sunshine Tour.

Because He Is Tiger

CIRCLE OF LIFE • A former winter on the Sunshine Tour has ended his professional career and has no regrets as he enjoys life as an amateur again.

NEED FOR SPEED • The ex-Proteas quick - fastest to 50 Test scapls - talks about his hole-in-one, Rory McIlroy's meltdown and not rushing teen Kwena Maphaka.

14 August 2016 • Great Britain's Justin Rose became golf's first Olympic champion since 1904 by seeing off Henrik Stenson in a thrilling final round at Rio 2016.

Nearly Men • For a...