Local golfer wins Joburg City Masters
Local upcoming golf star, Jaco Prinsloo, showed at the Joburg City Masters that his good form in recent months was no fluke.
Jaco Prinsloo from Pretoria carded a four-under-par 68 final round at the Joburg City Masters at Country Club Johannesburg last week, to total 12-under-par and win his first Big Easy Tour event since 2013.
“I won a Big Easy event in 2013 in Kempton Park. It’s been a while since I won on the Big Easy, but it’s very nice to win the co-sanctioned event with the MENA Tour. It just feels like it’s a step higher,” he said after his win.
Prinsloo came into final round one shot back of Jamie Elson who was on nine-under. He quickly took the lead while Elson fell back and Omar Sandys was making upward movement on the leader board.
“The last leader board was on hole number 15’s green and I still had a three-shot lead there. I thought ‘OK, this looks pretty simple’, and all of a sudden on 17, Omar Sandys was on 10-under and put some pressure on me. But luckily I kept calm and put the ball in the right spaces, and yeah got it done,” Prinsloo said of the pressure that was being applied by the chasing pack.
The change of mind set he spoke about earlier in the tournament seems to have stood him in good stead in Johannesburg, as Sandys really looked like he would snatch it underneath Prinsloo’s nose.
“Well, I just had to keep doing the things I have done the last two days and it’s always a little bit tougher to do that on the last day. There is a little bit more pressure. But, I managed to and kept calm and that got the trick done here,” he said.
Sandys, a member of the Gary Player Class of 2017-18, fell two shots adrift of Prinsloo, while fellow squad member in that development programme, Jacquin Hess, settled for a shared third with Jeff Inglis of England and Francois Coetzee, on seven-under.
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