Jamie Lee’s talent for golf

Jamie Lee's mum and dad are the driving force behind their daughter's sporting career.

"From an early age she showed exceptional co-ordination," says Manie Daniels. "She used to follow me around the golf course as a toddler and at the age of four, she took up the game. She's quite a feisty character, but she's also got immense concentration, and she's unbelievably competitive."

Jamie Lee trains at the Uitenhage Golf Club , which is just a 7-iron away from her home. She receives her coaching from dad Manie and the SAGDB's head coach in EP, Mzuyanda Zingela.

Has Sammy got what it takes to become an international golfing star?

 

John Bailey, the SAGDB's development manager for Eastern Province, certainly thinks so.

"For her age she is probably one of the best young lady golfers in the country," says Bailey. "We are confident of that when we measure her success when playing other tournaments. She plays on the main course and regularly makes fives and fours and the odd three. She can probably beat 70% of the adults playing this course at the weekend."

If you want to become a top professional it helps to start young. Tiger Woods began his career at the tender age of two, and the current teenage golfing sensation Michelle Wie took up her clubs at four.

If you ask little Jamie Lee Daniels who will rewrite the golfing records after Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa, she shrugs and points to herself the quiet confidence that leaves you no doubt that this slip of a girl is going places.