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The Wingate Park Country Club was a worthy test for the majority of the field on a windy day in Pretoria on Wednesday, but a trio of golfers in JC Ritchie, James Hart du Preez and Luca Filippi managed to shoot 67s to share a one-stroke lead after the first round of the SunBet Challenge Time Square.
Ockie Strydom will make his Nedbank Golf Challenge debut as the first South African confirmed for the 2023 edition of ‘Africa’s Major’ and takes his place in a field that already includes defending champion Tommy Fleetwood and Major champions Justin Rose and Justin Thomas.
The Sunshine Tour has announced a summer of world-class international golf that includes six co-sanctioned tournaments and their prime positioning within the newly announced Global Swing schedule of the DP World Tour, offering even greater opportunities and incentives.
Jacques Kruyswijk claimed his third victory on the Sunshine Tour with a one-stroke triumph in the Vodacom Origins of Golf at Zebula Country Club on Sunday.
Playing golf in South Africa's northern-most province seems to agree with Heinrich Bruiners as he will go into the final round of the Vodacom Origins of Golf at Zebula Country Club in pole position to claim his second Sunshine Tour title, 10 years after his first victory also came in Limpopo.
Jonathan Broomhead, Hunter Epson and Estiaan Conradie shared the first-round lead of the Vodacom Origins of Golf at Zebula Country Club on Friday with opening rounds of 66, but with Sunshine Ladies Tour professional Cara Gorlei just one stroke behind them.
Cara Gorlei struck an early blow for the Sunshine Ladies Tour professionals when she won the Vodacom Origins of Golf Zebula Pro-Am, and she’ll take this confidence into the main tournament as she joins her fellow women’s professionals when they tee it up alongside their Sunshine Tour counterparts in the same tournament, for the same prize money, and for the first time in South African professional golf on Friday.
There could be no better celebration in the week of National Women’s Day than the presence of the Sunshine Ladies Tour professionals in the field alongside their Sunshine Tour counterparts and making history by competing for the same R2 million prize money at this week’s first Vodacom Origins of Golf tournament at Zebula Country Club.
Elevating the profile of women’s sport has ticked all the boxes for the Blue Bulls rugby union, and Jake White, their Director of Rugby, expects it to do the same for the Sunshine Tour.
Major Champion Justin Thomas will tee it up at the Nedbank Golf Challenge as ‘Africa’s Major’ returns to Gary Player Country Club from November 9-12.