Brilliant Bright runs up Big Easy IGT double
Matt Bright from Irene has shown that his golf career is back on track after his second consecutive victory on the Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour.
It was double delight for Matt Bright, who intensified the battle for supremacy in the Road to the Sunshine Tour with back-to-back titles on the Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour at Centurion Country Club on Wednesday.
Just a week after he won the fifth event with a short game masterclass at Killarney Country Club, the 24-year-old Bright came from behind to win by one stroke with another magnificent final round production in Centurion.
The young entrepreneur began the final round three strokes behind overnight leader Matt Rushton and was six off the pace after a bogey start and a further bogey at the par four sixth.
However, a momentum boosting birdie at the par four ninth delivered the spark Bright needed to ignite a birdie feast down the home stretch.
He made three gains on the bounce from the 12th and finished with consecutive birdies for a four-under 68 to triumph on 10 under.
“I am a die-hard. I never give up and that birdie at nine definitely did the trick,” said a delighted Bright, the first player to win successive titles on the Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour this season.
Bright said he knew he had a chance when he hit probably his best drive of the day on the 13th and a really good lob-wedge from 79 metres in the middle of the fairway to four feet.
According to Bright his par saves at 14, 15 and 16 were crucial, because a few other guys also ran hot on the back nine. A couple was in the clubhouse on nine-under, so he knew he needed at least one birdie over the last two holes.
“The 17th played quite short. I hit sand-wedge to 15 feet and drained the putt. On 18, my tee shot finished a metre short of the green. I lagged the first putt from 15 metres to four inches and tapped in for the win,” he concluded.
The victory boosted Bright to the third in the Road to the Sunshine Tour Rankings, with only R5 000 separating him and leader Dylan Mostert.
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