SHE’S nursing a few bruises as well as some scratches around her right eye – but it’s no big deal for Samantha Els. Anyone who plays rugby knows that bumps and scrapes come with the territory.
It’s a far cry from the rather more sedate game of golf that made her father, Ernie Els, a household name but Samantha loves being right in the thick of all the rough and tumble.
When the Springbok women’s rugby team ran out recently for their encounter against US club team San Clemente Rhinos, all eyes were on the energetic blonde lock who was making her debut.
“It was my first game as a professional player,” Samantha (24) says, chatting to YOU at the V&A
