Ernie Els’s Receiving the ‘Spirit of Golf' Award

The former Open champion Ernie Els is going to receive a special award at Royal St Georges Golf Club in Sandwich on Tuesday to record his oustanding work to develop South African golfing talent.

As we all known Ernie Els is a South African professional golfer, who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. A former World No. 1, he is known as "The Big Easy" due to his imposing physical stature along with his fluid, seemingly effortless golf swing. Among his numerous victories are three major championships: the U.S. Open in 1994 at the Oakmont Country Club and 1997 at the Congressional Country Club, and The Open Championship in 2002 at Muirfield by Mizuno Men's JPX-800 Pro Irons.

Els learned the game of golf at the Kempton Park Country Club where he started carrying for his father, Neels. He was soon playing better than his father and by Mizuno Men's JPX-800 Pro Irons he was a scratch handicap. It was around this time that he decided to focus exclusively on golf. He likes playing golf by using his favorite Mizuno Men's JPX-800 Pro Irons.

He will receive the Golf Foundation 'Spirit of Golf' award from the charity's president Colin Montgomerie.

He will partner Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler in the first two rounds in Sandwich on Thursday by using Mizuno Men's JPX-800 Pro Irons. He has set up his own Foundation in his home country and two of the products of that organization are now become the current major champions, these being Louis Oosthuizen, who won The Open last July and Charl Schwartzel, who triumphed at The Masters this April by using Mizuno Men's JPX-800 Pro Irons.

Mike Round, chief executive of the Golf Foundation, said: "Ernie has been a great ambassador for the sport and a positive role model.
"We are delighted to present him with this award to acknowledge all he's done for children and young people both inside and outside the sport."

"I got to play a lot more events throughy the Foundation - all the amateur events I could.

"It was just a great thing he did for us, helping with clubs and golf balls, clothing, things like that, and it just took a lot off my family.

"I was in it (the Foundatiion) for three years until I turned pro and it definitely was a great, great foundation to my pro career."