Info on Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City

This year the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City promises to be the largest event since its inception in 1981. The 2013 Nedbank Golf Challenge will feature an increased 30-man field competing for a total purse of $6.5 million at the Gary Player Country Club – an increase of $1.5 million on the 2012 prize money.

Players will also have the added attraction that the Nedbank Golf Challenge will count towards Official World Golf Ranking points as well as Ryder Cup points, and as official money on both the European Tour Race to Dubai and the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit.

Welcome to click here for a full list of players. Tickets are between R80 to R200 per person depending on the day and available from Computicket.

Invite to South African Open Championship 23 November 2013

South Africa’s rising stars will join a top international line-up in pursuit of the 103rd South African Open Championship title from 21 to 24 November at the classic layout of the Glendower Golf Club, Edenvale, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.

We are going through on Saturday the 23rd so please mail me if you want to join and let's have a drink or two. Tickets are R100 per adult, R40 for Pensioners and R5 for under 18's. Adult tickets are available from Computicket

TOURNAMENT DATES

Thursday, 21 to Sunday, 24 November 2013

DEFENDING CHAMPION
Henrik Stenson from Sweden

PRIZE FUND
€1.1-million

FIELD SIZE
156 professionals and amateurs.

TEE TIMES: 
The first tee-off times in rounds one and two will be at 6:30am.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The competition will be decided over 72 holes of stroke play. All contestants participate in the first two rounds. On conclusion of the second round there will be a cut to the 65th-placed professional and those tying. In the event of a tie for first place, there will be a sudden-death playoff on holes to be determined by the Tournament Director.

VENUE INFORMATION

ADDRESS: 20 Marais Road, Dowerglen
TEL: +27 (0) 11 453 1013 gm@glendower.co.za .
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: -26.160754; Longitude: +28.142465

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More about Pecanwood Golf and Country Club - Harties

This up market residential golf estate situated on the banks of the Hartebeespoort Dam some 40 minutes drive west of Sandton (Johannesburg), boasts the only Jack Nicklaus `signature` golf course in Africa. It is a young layout (opened in 1998), but the technology expertise and attention to detail that has gone into its construction means that its conditioning is unsurpassed in South Africa.

The layout bears the Nicklaus hallmarks of generously wide, collecting fairways (planted with kikuyu) and larger multi-featured greens complexes. It is difficult for a golfer to lose a ball at Pecanwood other than in a water hazard, of which there are several - but the course is abundantly and severely bunkered.

The putting surfaces are slick and demanding. Playing the big layout is an education in skilled course design, for one soon realizes that very precise positional play and lines of attack are required if pars and birdies are to be had.

In this regard the impressive bunkers can be a help, the sand traps having a `sighting` as well as a penal function. On several holes one as aware of the housing component, but the playing corridors are generous and the dwellings are visually interesting, strict architectural guidelines rendering them unusually uniform.

Visit the official Pecanwood website here

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