David Higgins finished tied for 11th in the Nelson Mandela Championship presented by ISPS for a confidence-boosting start to the 2014 European Tour campaign. The Waterville man, who lost his full playing rights last season, has now made two cuts out of two this term and earned €22,612 to move to 65th in the Race to Dubai. 

Spain’s Jorge Campillo and South Africa’s Colin Nel both shot rounds of 59 at the Nelson Mandela Championship but neither will count as preferred lies were in operation on a soggy Mount Edgecombe course reduced to a par-70 because of torrential rain.