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For the 13th time Team SA (Ivan Verster, CJ van Wyk, Judd Sundelson and Jonathan Wilsenach) won the All-Africa Teams Championship at Golf Citrus La Forest Course in Tunisia, beating Morocco by four shots. Individually, Wilsenach placed second on eight-under.

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Both Louis Oosthuizen and Branden Grace have announced that they have resigned from the LIV Golf circuit to return to play on the DP World Tour and other events on the 'regular' tours. The two South Africans were part of the Southern Guards quartet, whose future is unclear, as is that of LIV Golf, which is currently involved in court proceedings.

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Charlotte Millard won the SA Women's 72-Hole Teams Championship at East London GC with rounds of 71, 69, 74. Her three-over total was three shots clear of Lourenda Steyn and Isabella Ferreira. Central Gauteng A won the Swiss Trophy and their 'B' side won the Challenge Trophy.

Deon Germishuys won for a fourth time on the Sunshine Tour when he prevailed in a playoff to win the Stella Artois Players Championship at Glendower. Germishuys and Cole Stevens finished regulation play tied for the lead on 19 under par. Germishuys made birdie on the first extra hole.

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Australia's Austin Bautista (-16) won his second Sunshine Tour title this season by clinching the Fortress Invitational at Houghton Golf Club by five shots from defending champion Warwick Purchase (-11). Zander Lombard, Altin van der Merwe and Jonathan Broomhead shared third place on -10.

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Kyle Barker overturned a nine-shot deficit and then won a playoff to claim his third Sunshine Tour title in the Limpopo Championship. Barker produced a final round of 68 to finish on nine-under-par with Cole Stevens, the overnight leader by five shots, who closed with a 77.
Kyle Barker overturned a nine-shot deficit and then won a playoff to claim his third Sunshine Tour title in the Limpopo
Championship. Barker produced a final round of 68 to finish on nine-under-par with Cole Stevens, the overnight leader by five shots, who closed with a 77.

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When Tristen Strydom made a hole-in-one on the 14th at the Fortress Invitational at Houghton Golf Club, he became the ninth player this season to be added to the Airlink Aces Shoot-Out at the end of the season.


The score to par, that the 1996 SA Amateur champion Titch Moore shot to win the SA Senior Amateur Championship at Knysna GC. He had rounds of 68, 67, 72, finishing two clear of Ivan Williams.
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South Africans who made the cut at the DP World Tour's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. There were also 17 South Africans who failed to make the cut at the St Andrews Old Course, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns. SA Open champion Dylan Naidoo missed the cut by one.


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Overall points scored by Luke Brown at the Blu Label Unlimited Challenge, to win a second Sunshine Tour title for the season at the Lost City Golf Course. Brown collected 20 points in his final round and finished two points clear of Tyran Snyders.
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The prize money, in dollars (exchange rate $1 = R17), that Casey Jarvis received for ending tie second at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at the St Andrews Old Course, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns. MJ Daffue and JC Ritchie earned $101,760 for T9th. Jarvis then finished T4th in the Genesis Championship in South Korea.

