Anele Khumalo has been accepted into the Professional Golfers’ Association of South Africa’s Pathway to Membership programme.
Long before Anele Khumalo became the familiar voice calling four-balls to the first tee at Simbithi Country Club in Ballito, on the KZN North Coast, he was a boy standing on the other side of a fence, watching golfers play and dreaming of joining them one day.
Growing up in Compensation village alongside the nearby Umhlali Country Club, golf was always within sight for Khumalo, but initially beyond his reach.
He and his friends would gather at the boundary of the course, studying the golfers’ swings and stances before trying to replicate what they had seen with makeshift clubs.
“We may not have understood the game fully then, but I knew that when I grew up, I was going to be a golfer,” Khumalo said.
