American Jordan Gumberg claimed a thrilling victory in the SDC Championship at St Francis Links on Sunday when he beat South Africa’s Robin Williams in a playoff.

Conor Purcell got 2024 off to a hot start when he fired an eagle and four birdies in a five-under 67 to lie just a shot off the lead in the Challenge Tour’s Bain’s Whisky Cape Town Open.

Gary Hurley opened with a four-under 68 in his first event for eight months to lie just four shots behind leaders Wilco Nienaber and Alexander Levy in the Sunshine Tour’s SDC Open in South Africa.

It’s a story that goes back to their junior golf days together and it’s one that will continue on Sunday as co-leaders Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel will battle it out for the Alfred Dunhill Championship title at Leopard Creek.

Swede Joakim Lagergren opened with a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 to lead South Africa’s Casey Jarvis by a single stroke after the first round of the Investec South African Open at the Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate on Thursday.

Gary Hurley credited a “good sleep” and a better attitude for his move up the leaderboard as he made seven birdies in a second-round 68 in the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.

Rookies Tom McKibbin and John Murphy opened with two-under 70s but found themselves eight strokes behind Finland’s Sami Välimäki in the year-ending AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.

Shaun Norris didn’t think they would make it to the final round of the Steyn City Championship. His wife Candice was with their three-week-old baby girl Riley-Grace. Then, as he was battling with Dean Burmester for the lead and falling behind, he saw them. And it changed everything for Norris.

South Africa’s James Hart du Preez said three weeks ago that something had clicked in his game, and it showed at The Club at Steyn City on Thursday when he flirted with a 59 on his way to a nine-under-par 63 and the first-round lead of the Steyn City Championship.

Shane Lowry was on cruise control before going on school patrol after opening with a three-under 67 in the Honda Classic at his West Palm Beach base.

Cormac Sharvin bounced back from an early double-bogey at the fifth to open with a one-under 70 in the Magical Kenya Open in Nairobi.

The European Challenge Tour and the Sunshine Tour today jointly confirmed the postponement of the three co-sanctioned tournaments in South Africa.

Wilco Nienaber silenced even the local peacocks with his booming drives as he joined Shaun Norris in a South African double act that topped the leaderboard after Thursday’s first round of the Joburg Open at Randpark Golf Club.