The Big Mama Returns to Ballito
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The undisputed ‘big mama’ of surf events kicked off yesterday in style with the fourth stop of the Billabong Junior Series presented by All Aboard travel. From the 27th June to the 9th July, Willard Beach will host the top juniors, women and men from local beaches and around the globe for the 49th edition of the Ballito Pro. Being the longest running professional surf event in the world, it was first called the Durban 500 (because the winner took home R500 bucks!) before it evolved into the Gunston 500, moved out of the city, became the Mr Price Pro for a few years before finally morphing into the Billabong sponsored mega surf and entertainment event that it is today. The Ballito Pro is the first QS 10 000 rated event of the 2017 season and has a healthy prize purse of R3.4 million on offer. Winning here, can catapult the QS hopeful within a whisker of qualifying for the dream tour, and all the competitors know it. But while the first week is strictly surfing (Juniors, Women and Trials), next week will see the after hours events kick off as the lifestyle elements of the festival take hold. “It’s […]