SA’s Stone to play in Mauritius Open

Multiple European Tour winner Brandon Stone of South Africa has confirmed his place in the 2017 AfrAsia Bank Mauritius open at The Heritage Golf Club at Heritage resorts this November, adding to a strong South African contingent for this tri-sanctioned tournament.

Stone joins countryman and 2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen in the field, as well as George Coetzee, winner of the inaugural AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open in 2015, and Jaco van Zyl, who will also form part of the expanded field for this year’s tournament from November 30 to December 3.

Stone, ranked 92nd in the world and who this year played in his first US Open and finished tied 35th, will make his second appearance in this €1-million (R15-m) tri-sanctioned tournament between the Sunshine Tour, European Tour and Asian Tour.

“I have a deep love for the Sunshine Tour, having grown up on it with my father playing there, so I always want to support our Tour. At the same time the European Tour has also been very good to me. They gave me a lot of invites when I first came out on Tour and they have been looking after me very nicely,” said Stone.

The winner of the 2016 BMW South African Open and Alfred Dunhill Championship and a member of South Africa’s 2016 golf team for the Olympic Games, he finished sixth in last year’s AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.

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