Welcome to the Pursuit of Golfing Greatness! #allin #noguarantees
Joshua van Niekerk, nickname "Flusher"
Welcome to the Pursuit of Golfing Greatness! #allin #noguarantees
Joshua van Niekerk, nickname "Flusher"
About me
Just a teenager shooting for the stars!
- Place of birth: London, England
- Age 17
- 2023: Current Handicap: +0.3
- 2022: Best Handicap: +1.4
- 2023: Target Handicap: +4
- Lowest Round: 5 under par
- Best Competitive Round: 3 under par
- Home Courses: Kings Hill and Bearsted
- Favourite Club: 3-Iron
- Strengths: Work ethic and technical mindset
- Weaknesses: Mental game (mastery underway)
- Enjoy academia and all sports.
- Golfing heroes: Tiger Woods, Rory Mcilroy, Nelly Korda
- Sporting Heroes: Tom Brady, Koby Bryant
- Dream Job: US PGA Professional
Updates and News (Events, Results, Tournaments)
Justin Rose Junior Championship 2022 | Portugal
My first trip to Europe to play in the Quinta Do Lagos Justin Rose Junior Championship event. I qualified by shooting a 68 in the North Foreland Junior Competition. My scores were magical, was 79, 77, 72, but not bad for my first European outing. Chin up and forward we go! Just wanted to say a huge thank you to The Telegraph, Quinta do Lagos, and none other than Justin Rose for the continued support and sponsorship for the event.
Royal St. Georges Golf Club
What an amazing links course and privileged to attend the 149th Open and then play the course a year later.
Race to Royal St. Georges
Happy to win the 2022 Race to St.Georges Final and then order of merit. These are not necessarily major events but important ones for continuous development of junior golf. Thank you Kent Golf!
Charity Day for RNIB (Thank you Invuse)
What a privilege to partake in a charity day for the Royal National Institute of the Blind. Thank you Invuse (Paul Zimmerman and Fintn Galvin) for the invitation. All for a great cause and had the chance to spend some quality time with Challenge Tour Pro, Marco Penge who also played the 2022 Open. Marco is sponsored by Invuse and we were lucky to get a coaching clinic for an hour followed by each group getting to play a few holes with Marco! The discussions were pure, heartfelt, and inspiring, especially for myself as an aspiring junior golfer.
Kent County Golf - Under 16's
It has been a major learning curve for me playing in the under 16 Kent County squad. Thank you to the amazing Gary Basson and Dean Swift (County Coaches) and also to these phenomenal characters. Each one of these lads are talented golfers with unique characteristics in their games, attitudes, and personalities. #legends. Keep rising boys!
European Junior Champs-Spain
Another amazing opportunity to play the in European Junior Champs in Malaga. Great competition and amazing venue. Just another cup in the feather from a tough 2022. Great experience and took a lot away from playing on the tough La Hacienda Courses. Pure links conditions and four days of quality learning.
Golf Equipment
Here are my tools of the trade.
- IRONS | Callaway APEX MB Blades
- IRONS | Callaway APEX Pro's
- DRIVER | Taylormade Stealth 10.5 Driver | Custom Stiff Shaft Smoke 6.5 TX
- WOODS | Taylormade Sim2 3 Wood
- WEDGES | Taylormade Milled Grind 3 | 58, 54 and 50 Degree
- PUTTER | Cleveland Frontline Elevado Putter
- BALLS | Titleist Pro V1x
- SHOES | Nike Golf Air Zoom Tour 2
- SHIRTS | Various: Under Armour, Nike, Adidas, Mizuno, Callaway
Nothing is sponsored: all is self funded by my Popsy :(
Photo Gallery (Where it all began)
My first Hole-in-One!
Arabella Golf course and Country Estate
So this was my first hole-in-one thus far, at the age of 9 years old. It is still my only one. My dad and I played the incredible golf course of Arabella near Cape Town in South Africa. I believe it was the 7th hole and the yardage was around about 130 Yards. #firstace #proudme #proudpops
Progress Report (Qualitative)
My Progress Report <According to my Dad> ;)
We are a crazy familiy of analysts and we love numbers, good and bad, as it allows us to benchmark progress and work on fixing parts of my game that needs fixing as no athlete is ever the same in their journey towards professional sport. BTW: that dip in performance is to do with elevated competitiveness, so results and performances differ under pressure, so there is ample room for improvement.