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Bush-loving South African Ockie Strydom posted a score of 69 for the win the Alfred Dunhill Championship by two shots at 18-under, and with the 37-year-old claiming a maiden DP World Tour win in a 39th event. Strydom’s win, and in the fifth event of the new 2022/23 season guarantees the Serengeti Golf & Wildlife Estate attached golfer a virtual three-year Tour exemption till the end of 2025 following his victory on the course that overlooks the bush of Kruger National Park. A moment to remember ...

Aussie Richard Green has stormed his way onto the 2023 PGA Champions Tour in dramatic manner posting an 18 under par four round score of 266 at TPC Scottsdale to win by four shots and the top spot at the Champions Qualifying School in Arizona. The 51 year-old Melbourne-born lefty, and affectionately long know as ‘Greeny’ capped his career early-on in denying major champions Greg Norman and Ian Woosnam in a play-off to capture the 1997 Dubai Desert Classic and in the process becoming ...

Scott Jamieson remains on target to end a decade-long winless drought heading to the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. Jamieson had let slip a three-shot lead going into golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ but regrouped in a round of 70 and end the day tied for the lead at 15-under-par on the Leopard Creek course at Malelane, some 250-miles to the east of Joburg. The Scot’s new course record 63 from day two lasted just one round with South African Ockie Strydom posting ...

It’s a sight not often seen during formal competition in men’s golf and that’s the wearing of shorts. Of course, men are allowed to wear shorts during DP World Tour and PGA Tour practice rounds but once the competition proper gets underway, it’s the standard trousers for all players. Though this is not the rule at this week’s co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek in South Africa with officials relaxing the trousers-rule to allow the wearing of shorts. NICE ...

Scott Jamieson was devouring the course with a record-setting 63 as a pride of lions dined out close-by on day two of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. Jamieson muscled his way to a three-shot lead at 13-under-par on the host Leopard Creek course that borders the famed Kruger National Park at Malelane, some 250-miles east of the capital Johannesburg. The Scot’s nine-under score is one fewer than Tartan colleague David Drysdale’s course record low of 64 on day three in 2016 ...

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson again showed a fondness for his ‘special’ event of the year in posting a 68 on the opening day of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Malelane in South Africa. Jamieson grabbed six birdies, three on each nine, in a four under score in hot and mostly blustery conditions on the Leopard Creek course located on the edge of the famed Kruger National Park and some 250-miles east of the capital Johannesburg. South African Dean Burmester birdied his closing two ...

European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald could not be happier. There has been three months of qualifying for the 2023 European Ryder Cup side and those who will be the expected cornerstones of Donald’s Rome side are winners. They include six players who also were on the 2021 losing European Team side that competed at Whistling Straits. Shane Lowry was the first to win in the 12-month 2022/23 qualifying period capturing the opening event with victory over Rory McIlroy in the BMW PGA Championship at ...