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.
Matthew Spacey has enjoyed a solid start to the 2023/24 Sunshine Tour season with five top-20 finishes, but if he had a criticism of his performance so far it would be that his scoring has not properly reflected how well he has been playing.
Fortress Real Estate Investments Limited, sponsors of The Fortress Invitational on the Sunshine Tour, have expanded their support of next-generation greatness on the Tour with a new Rookie of the Year incentive for the country’s future stars.
Keelan van Wyk did not think he would be able to conquer the back nine at the Gary Player Country Club as comfortably as he did, but his marvellous five-under-par 67 set him up for pride of place on the leaderboard after the first round of the SunBet Challenge hosted by Sun City on Wednesday.
Louis Albertse was all smiles after winning the Kit Kat Cash and Carry Pro-Am and R320 000 at Irene Country Club on Sunday, but he said even though he triumphed by a comfortable four strokes it felt like he had been climbing mountains all day.
Although Louis Albertse’s five-under-par 67 was not faultless golf, the 26-year-old showed perfect composure as he maintained his four-shot lead after the third and penultimate round of the Kit Kat Cash and Carry Pro-Am at Irene Country Club on Saturday.