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Very soft spoken and well mannered the unfound, undiscovered Sam Goodwin, a pupil of Carletonville High School, modestly starts to tell of his already brilliant golfing career thus far. Goodwin has credit enough to be seen as a professional golfer with a career-in-making in golf, yet not a single person, sadly, has offered to sponsor this young man who could only benefit the advertising interests of any company. “I held my first golf club on the golf course when I was five years old and seriously started playing and practicing at ten.” By the time he was twelve years old, Goodwin played for the Blyvoor Golf Club in his first Scratch League. A Scratch League entails all the best players from different golf clubs competing against one another. At the young age of fifteen years, Goodwin now plays golf for the North West u.16 team. In order to have achieved this, he took part in foundation provincial tournaments to improve his stroke average. Those players with the best stroke average are then chosen for the provincial team. Not only does Goodwin play for the u.16 North West Team, but he was also chosen as part of the u.18 North West side earlier this year. He was then rated the fifth best u.16 player in South Africa. During the recent school holiday, Goodwin played at the Ernie Els Invitational at Fan Court in George. This is a brilliant achievement in itself due to the fact that players cannot qualify for the event, hosted by Ernie Els himself, but are rather sent special invitations to participate. Only the top forty players in South Africa receive invites to this prestige tournament, of which Goodwin was one. He finished in the top forty out of 110 players at this event. Goodwin was also invited to, and played in, the North West open in Rustenburg recently, finishing 29th out of 180 players. This event is held for the top amateur players in the province and qualification is worked out according to stroke averages and determined by skill of the player. It only gets better for Sam Goodwin. He was invited to and participated in the SA Boys Tournament in Durbanville recently. This, too, is an invitees-only event. With utter brilliance, this young golfer ended second, making him the second best golfer in South Africa in his age category. What does Goodwin attribute his excellent golfing to? Four hours of practice on the golf course, (which he is lucky to live approximately 200 metres from, every day of his life and a great coach like his ? his father, Colin Goodwin, who is also an inter-provincial golfer. “Without a good mindset and positivity, one cannot get through setbacks and tough times,” tells Goodwin. “The pressure gets really tough on the course during a tournament sometimes and one needs to stay calm to win.” Goodwin says that he enjoys the fact that golf is an individual sport where he can just be alone on the golf course. “I like the fact that I can determine my own results and that there are no other team members to rely on.” Goodwin says that Callies is an extremely accommodating school and that, without their full support and back-up, he would never have achieved that which he has thus far. He would also like to thank his mother, Loré Goodwin and his coach and father, for all their support, financially and morally.

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