It is an unfortunate fact that kzn lose many of its aspiring and potential champion golfers to either colleges in the usa or to the sunshine tour on an annual basis. This obviously has a negative, and sometimes a disatrous, effect on local home-grown players being available for selection to kzn provincial teams.

In 2022 alone the province lost its top junior golfer, Daniel Bennett to Gauteng north and Nathan Trodd, Cade Cryer, Jack Cubitt, Ethan Gough, Nick Adams and Matthew Sutherland to colleges in the USA. The 2019 KZN open winner Nikhil Gopal and Kyle Kistensamy, the KZN Closed champion over the last two years are already based in the USA. There is also rumour that one of the leading players in South African amateur golf, Jonothan Broomhead, may be considering going to tour school in the next few months.

This state of affairs is leaving the cupboard somewhat sparse when it comes to the number of top of players available to represent the province at the annual south african inter-provincial tournaments and places the kzngu selectors in a rather difficult situation when it comes to selection of teams.

The KZNGU has embarked upon a comprehensive junior golf development programme with the renowned Mckenna academies, who are based at Umhlali Country Club, in an urgent attempt to fast-track the provinces leading twelve junior players to greater heights of golfing skills and to realize their potential as quickly as possible in attempt to fill the massive void left by their departed compatriots.