SA Open Championship 2021-12-02

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Event
SA Open Championship

Date
Thu 2nd December 2021 (UTC)
Thu 2nd December 2021 (Local)

Timestamp
2021-12-02T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
European Tour

Season
2022

Round
0

Status

Location
Gary Player CC

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Description

The South African Open Championship is one of the oldest national open golf championships in the world, having first been played in 1903, and is one of the principal tournaments on the Southern-Africa-based Sunshine Tour. Since 1997 it has also been co-sanctioned by the European Tour.

The first formal event was organised in 1903, following a series of exhibition matches that had been held over the preceding ten years. The championship was initially contested over just 36 holes until 1908, when it was extended to become a 72-hole tournament. Although non-whites had played in the South African Open before, most notably when Papwa Sewgolum finished second in 1963, it was not until 1972 that black golfers were allowed to compete.
From 2011 until February 2020 it was held in the Johannesburg area; twice at Serengeti Golf Club, followed by five times at Glendower Golf Club, and then twice at Randpark Golf Club. In December 2020 it will move away from Johannesburg and be held at Gary Player Country Club in Sun City.
Gary Player has been the most successful player in the tournament's history, with 13 victories over four decades between 1956 and 1981. Bobby Locke won nine titles, Sid Brews won eight titles, and George Fotheringham won the event five times as did Ernie Els.
In December 2018, the event became part of the Open Qualifying Series, giving up to three non-exempt players entry into The Open Championship.
The event takes place Dec 02-05 and has a prize fund of USD 1,500,000

Daniel van Tonder snatches dramatic win on home soil at SA Open Championship
The event was stripped of its DP World Tour status last week after the discovery of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and the subsequent travel ban on South Africa; Daniel van Tonder claimed a one-shot victory in the now Sunshine Tour event.

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Result List

Result Description
After Final Round
Top 10 plus ties
Pos. /Player /To Par /R1 /R2 /R3 /R4 /Total

1 /Daniel van Tonder /-16 /69 /68 /70 /65 /272
2 /Oliver Bekker /-15 /65 /67 /75 /66 /273
3 /Hennie du Plessis /-12 /67 /70 /70 /69 /276
4 /Dean Burmester /-11 /71 /74 /66 /66 /277
5 /Cj du Plessis /-9 /73 /73 /66 /67 /279
T6 /Christiaan Bezuidenhout /-8 /70 /73 /70 /67 /280
T6 /Justin Harding /-8 /68 /67 /68 /77 /280
T6 /Rupert Kaminski /-8 /69 /75 /66 /70 /280
T6 /Neil Schietekat /-8 /65 /70 /74 /71 /280
T10 /Jacques Blaauw /-7 /73 /69 /72 /67 /281
T10 /Bryce Easton /-7 /66 /73 /72 /70 /281
T10 /Hennie O'Kennedy /-7 /67 /72 /72 /70 /281
T10 /Jovan Rebula /-7 /71 /72 /66 /72 /281

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