Several local players among leaders at Silver Lakes
Ruan Conradie from Wingate Park, JC Ritchie from Copperleaf and Albert Venter from Silver Lakes are all among the early leaders in the IGT Challenge tournament which is hosted this week at Silver Lakes in Pretoria.
A gentle rebuke from Canadian Oliver Tubb guided Durban-born Christof Appel to play himself into contention in the IGT Challenge Tour Race to Q-School #2 at Silver Lakes Golf Estate on Monday.
“Oliver and I have been competing together in Canada for years and he is always telling me that I will get more consistent if I play less aggressively,” said Appel, whose six-under-par 66 left him trailing round one pacesetters Ruan Conradie and Thriston Lawrence by one.
A final birdie at 17 will see Appel start the second round alongside another local player, Sunshine Tour winner JC Ritchie, who like 2018 IGT Challenge Tour Money List leader Conradie and Sunshine Tour Q-School winner Lawrence also graduated from the IGT Challenge Tour.
Silver Lakes local Albert Venter from Pretoria, who won the first Race to Q-School last week at Centurion, opened with a five-under 67.
He shared third with yet another IGT Challenge Tour graduate, CJ du Plessis, and Kyle Barker, who secured his spot into the Final Stage of Q-School with a top 20 finish in the Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour’s Race to Sunshine Tour at the end of last year.
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