Kieron van Wyk, a 23-year-old South African amateur golfer, made history as the first amateur to win an APGA Tour event at ...

Van Wyk grew up in the suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa and, though he was an academy-level soccer player, his dad introduced him to golf and van Wyk took to the individual nature of the game.

In his first tournament on the Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA) Tour, 23-year-old Kieron van Wyk — a College of Charleston senior and native of South Africa — became the first ...