SOUTH AFRICA: BLACK TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS CREATE OWN GOLF COURSE
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Twelve of the world's top golfers tee off for South Africa's million dollar golf challenge on Thursday.
But while Faldo and friends play on some of the best greens in the world, joining a golf club remains just a dream for most South Africans.
Some black township residents have created their own course on waste ground.
And thanks to business sponsorship South Africa may soon produce a black golf star.
The sprawling Khayelitsha township outside Cape Town is home to Vusami Sixhaso
It might not be the first activity you associate with this poor suburb but for Vusami and his friends Sunday is golf-day.
Like all black housing areas set up under apartheid, Khayelitsha has pitifully poor sporting facilities.
The nearest club is 20 kilometres (14 miles) away - so the residents invented their own.
The Khayelitsha golf club is a far cry from the lavish fairways and trimmed lawns which this week play host to the world's finest players at Sun City - north of Johannesburg.
To call this a 'green' would be an exaggeration
It may not be landscaped, but the old soccer field, next to the squatter shacks is home to the township's golfers.
The 60 players, most of them former caddies at white golf clubs - have to dig the holes, clear the fairways and plant the flags before they tee off for their weekly round.
They may not have the best facilities, but the game is the same and the rules must be obeyed.
Vusami, the club captain, proudly boasts that one of his fellow players recently won third place at a white club championship.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Khayelitsha has got more than one million people and you do not have even a single golf course here. You go to Guguletu, Langa, Nyanga, Crossroads - all these places with black people - then you don't even have a single golf course. But if you go into white areas there are about 30 golf courses around.
SUPER CAPTION: Vusami Sixhaso, Khayelitsha club captain
The contrast between the very basic facilities in the black townships contrasts with the luxurious surroundings at the white clubs.
For the most part, the only black people on these fairways are the caddies.
But things could be changing.
Four years ago a large South African banking group began putting money into the development of young black golfing talent.
They took on Mawonga Nomwa, a 25 year old from the black township of Soweto, who had been playing golf since the age of 14 and was dreaming of a golfing career.
But with his limited funds, his future on the fairways looked bleak.
Now with sponsorship behind him and his old borrowed clubs put away in the cupboard he's making a name for himself.
Last week he came third in the Zimbabwe Open championship ending only three strokes behind former Sun City Million Dollar champion Nicky Price.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I was playing with Nicky Price on the third day. I was very tense but I went there. I told myself - go and have fun, you know, don't worry about Nicky Price. He is a superstar, they will be pegging him from tee to green. So I just wanted to have fun.
SUPER CAPTION: Mawonga Nomwa, Golfer
Practice makes perfect and for Mawonga and the other rising stars of black golf - practice could make them the next Ernie Els - currently number four in the world.
Enjoying the facilities at one of Johannesburg's best clubs - a world away from the Sunday golfers in Khayelitsha - these hopefuls make it look easy.
But their confidence could encourage a new generation of South African kids to take up a sport more usually played by business executives.
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