Big name golfers to compete in Alfred Dunhill Championship
Last year's winner of the Alfred Dunhill Championship, Charl Schwartzel will be heading back to the prestigious Leopard Creek Country Club near Malalane this weekend to defend his title.
Locals will be able to see some of the biggest names in golf at this year’s Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek near Malalane from Thursday to Sunday.
Tickets are R50 per person per day and a four-day ticket is R100 per person. Pensioners and children under 16 can enter for free. Tickets can be booked via ticketpros.co.za.
In addition to Charl Schwartzel, 2014 winner, Branden Grace, Heath Slocum and Pablo Larazzabal will also be part of the field, comprising of 156 professional golfers.
Darren Clarke has not yet confirmed his participation.
Clarke played in the Gary Player Invitational over the Lost City Course at Sun City two weeks ago.
Grace currently seeded 16th on the latest World Golf Rankings, finished inside the top 10 at the Race to Dubai while 2011 Masters champion Schwartzel finished 21st in the Race to Dubai standings, despite finishing third in Dubai with a 14-under-par.
Slocum currently plays on the PGA Tour, and has earned seven professional wins to date. He became the second person to earn a “battlefield promotion” to the PGA Tour winning three Web.com Tour events in the same season.
He is only the second player in Web.com Tour history to complete 72 holes without a bogey. Heath joined the PGA Tour in 2001, and his first win came at the 2004 Chrysler Classic of Tuscon. His best finish in a major is a T9 at the 2008 US Open.
Larrazabal earned the first win for the new Big Bertha Alpha Driver and SR3 Golf Ball with his victory at the 2014 Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. He now has three career victories on the European Tour and appears to be one of golf’s rising international superstars.
He won the European Tour’s Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award in 2008.
