Golf

The 2021 Joburg Open will mark the official start of the road to the 150th Open in St Andrews as one of the City of Johannesburg’s premier sports events begins the global qualifying for next year’s Major.

Dylan Frittelli heads back to the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City this December to challenge for a South African Open Championship title he believes he needs to win if he wants to have a career which he considers to be complete.

Dean Burmester claimed his second victory this year as he added his name to one of the most prestigious trophies in South African golf when he won the 86th PGA Championship at St Francis Links on Sunday.

On a magnificent day at St Francis Links, England’s Steve Surry produced an equally magnificent round of golf when he scored a hole-in-one on his way to the first-round lead of the South African PGA Championship.

Jaco van Zyl heads into this week’s 86th PGA Championship as a member of an exclusive club of champions in South Africa’s second oldest professional golf tournament, having achieved what only Gary Player, Ernie Els, Harold Henning and Dale Hayes have managed to do.

There will be a few more South African flags flying on American fairways next season.

The Sunshine Tour has joined other South African sports organisations and federations in welcoming back a limited number of 2 000 fully vaccinated spectators to its upcoming tournaments this summer.

The 2021 Joburg Open will usher in the start of the Sunshine Tour and European Tour’s major summer season in South African golf when the R17.5 million tournament is played at Randpark Golf Club from 25-28 November.

Lyle Rowe knew that if he kept knocking on doors one would eventually open again and Saturday was the day when his first Sunshine Tour title in five years finally arrived as he won the Blue Label Challenge at the Gary Player Country Club.

Ruan Korb is learning to stay patient and composed when things are not going his way in his third season on the Sunshine Tour, and he needed those qualities in the remorseless heat at the Gary Player Country Club on Thursday.