As the WA/SA Division announced the 2017 SA PG Trainee Championships will be hosted at the Copper Club at Port Hughes In September this year, South Australian PGA Trainees this week were fortunate enough to get some handy tips from the best in the business following a round at the world famous Royal Adelaide Golf Club

Local Royal Adelaide Golf Club PGA Teaching Professional Daniel Blackwell, who delivers world class teaching at the club under Royal Adelaide Head PGA Professional Cameron Howell, was also on hand to provide some insight for the group who are in the midst of a very busy time in their young careers as they work towards becoming fully certified members of the PGA of Australia.

South Australian based European Tour Professional Wade Ormsby and former US Open Runner Up Stephen Leaney were also on hand to share some real life experiences about life at the top of the world game.

Ormsby heads off to Sicily on Sunday for the first of nine weeks in Europe where he has established himself in the past decade while Leaney will head to his home state of Western Australia where he will soon be strolling the fairways of Kalgoorlie for the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship which begins next Thursday.

Ormsby spoke of the challenges for young golfers finding their way in the game and the work ethic required to achieve results at the highest level while Blackwell reminded the group of the network available to PGA Professionals and the skills acquired during the traineeship which will last a lifetime.

Joining Leaney in Kalgoorlie will be one of the leading SA Trainees Zak Fuller (Sandy Creek) who has earned a start in the event through a combination of great playing and sound academic results.

Fuller is one of three South Australian Trainees who have set a hot pace on the national Trainee Order of Merit along with first year trainee Connor Chant (Mt Barker) who won the match at Royal Adelaide today with a solid round of two-under-par 70 and also Samuel Masters (Regency Park) who is a second year trainee and recently tied for his first professional win last week after shooting a five-under-par 67 to capture the Copper Coast Classic along with New South Welshman Mitchell Brown.

The 2017 SA PGA Trainee Championships will be played on 24 – 25 September at the Greg Norman designed Copper Club with further details to be announced in the coming weeks.