CHILEAN rising star, Matias Calderon sunk a 40-foot long putt for birdie in an unblemished seven-under-par 65 final round of the Eye of Africa PGA Championship to win his maiden Sunshine Tour title on February 11.
“I had already made one long putt for par on number 13 or 14 if I’m not wrong,” he said, “And, for some reason when I looked at it, I was like ‘if I give this the proper pace, it’s going to go in’, so I just focused on pace and I don’t know, for some reason I thought it had a chance.”
Calderon went into the final round of this R1.5-million event trailing overnight leader, Combrinck Smit, by six shots at this Greg Norman-designed golf course and got right into it with an eagle on the par-five second hole.
Well-known Alberton golfer, Keith Horne, from The Eye of Africa Club also participated in the PGA championship on home soil.
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