Filip Arturo Sakota
Availability status: Committed
University: Virginia Commonwealth University
Country: South Africa
Date of birth: 09/05/2005
Height: 5 feet 8 inches
Weight: 165 lbs
Sex: Male
School: Anchored Education
Graduation Year: 2023
Enrollment Year: 2024
Qualifications:
GPA: 3.6
Tournament Low Score: 66
Scoring Average: 71.8
Current Handicap: +3
National Junior Ranking (South Africa): 10
World Amateur Golf Ranking: 2300
Team Selections: South African National Team 2020-2022
Top tournament results:
5th place South African Men’s Amateur
T7th place Prince’s Grant Invitational Amateur (77,79,70,68)
5th place South African U19 Boys Stroke Play (73,69,71,74)
1st place National Nomads Inlands Nom 1 (76,67,70)
T20th place Central Gauteng Open (71,71,75)
T7th place Dimension Data Junior Open (73,73,68)
T11th place Amagla Trophy National Italian Amateur (75,69,75)
T6th place Slovenian National Amateur Tour 3 (77,74,69)
T14th place Papwa Sewgolum Cup (77,72,70)
T12th place Bobby Locke National Amateur Open (74,71,73)
T40th place South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship (71,75,75,76)
T43rd place Free State National Amateur Open (71,76,78,72)
T15th place South African Qualification (68,71)
2nd place Trofeo Citta’ Di Modena National Italian Amateur (70,72,73)
T13th place National Nomads Coastal NOom 1 (71,76)
T9th place Eastern Province Amateur Stroke Play (77,67)
1st place Junior CGGU State Open (66)
1st place Junior CGGU State Open (68)
2nd place Junior CGGU State Open (72)
T2nd place Junior CGGU State Open (72)
T7th place US Kids Venice U19 Open (74,72,72)
25th place Harry Oppenheimer Amateur Trophy (75,76,73)
T63rd place Gauteng North National Amateur Open (75,74,76)
31st place KZN Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship (78,75,72)
Give us 5 words that best describe you as an athlete:
Dedicated, hardworking, persistent, passionate, honest.
Tell us about your best memory of your athletic career:
My best memory in golf was winning my first Junior U19 Interstate Team Event in December 2022. We were the predicted underdogs and with our team spirit and belief, we won.
Goals:
I would like to join a university golf team and I aim to obtain a university degree.
Anything else we should know?
I would like to compete in the greatest country in the world for golf and play against the best amateurs. This will lay the foundations for my future and is the best way for me to get onto the PGA tour and win multiple majors.