Louis Albertse kept his composure on a day when he admitted he wasn’t at his best and still managed to claim a three-stroke lead heading into Sunday’s final round of the Waterfall City Tournament of Champions powered by Attacq. MICHAEL VLISMAS reports. Albertse signed for a 68 on the composite nine-hole layout at Royal Johannesburg’s East Course to lead the field on 15 under par, and also lead the chase for the R1-million in prize money for first place this weekend. His nearest challengers are Welshman Rhys Enoch and Sunshine Ladies Tour campaigner Casandra Alexander on 12 under par follo ..read more

For the third time in the last 18 LIV Golf regular-season tournaments, Brooks Koepka will take a three-shot lead entering the final round, thanks to a brilliant seven-under 64 in Saturday’s rain-delayed second round at LIV Golf Singapore. The previous two times Koepka has held that large of an advantage, he closed the deal in Orlando and Jeddah last year. Given that the five-time Major champion has found his form as his PGA Championship title defence looms later this month, it will be a big challenge for his Singapore pursuers to catch him. Talor Gooch, the defending Singapore champion, descri ..read more

Moving Day was cancelled at the Volvo China Open due to thunder and lightning in Shenzhen. Following Saturday’s cancellation, the event will now be a 54-hole tournament with the third and final round to be played on Sunday. It was meant to be an intriguing third round at Hidden Grace Golf Club, where Asian Swing Rankings leader Sebastian Söderberg held a three-shot advantage at the top of the leaderboard at 16 under par. Only two groups got under way before play was initially suspended at 8:18am local time due to the dangerous situation caused by lightning in the Shenzhen area. Practice facili ..read more

Casandra Alexander produced a magnificent bogey-free round of 61 to lead the Sunshine Tour’s Waterfall City Tournament of Champions powered by Attacq by two strokes at Royal Johannesburg’s East Course on Friday. MICHAEL VLISMAS reports. Competing as one of the champions on the Sunshine Ladies Tour this past season, Alexander surged to the top of the leaderboard on 13 under par, with Sunshine Tour professional Louis Albertse her nearest challenger on 11 under par following his second round of 68. Sunshine Tour professionals Rupert Kaminski and Gerhard Pepler are currently tied third headed ..read more

Zander Lombard is hoping to finally get himself into the winner’s circle on the DP World Tour after moving into contention at the Volvo China Open. The South African has had several near misses in recent years – five runner-up finishes since 2022 – but is still waiting for that elusive first victory on the DP World Tour. The most recent of his seven career second-placed finishes came at the Bahrain Championship in February during a run of eight events where he finished no lower than 25th. He is eager to get over the finish line with his nose in front, especially after playing his opening two r ..read more

After suffering a “little low point” a week ago in Australia, Sebastián Muñoz produced his best round of the 2024 season on Friday to take the first-round lead at LIV Golf Singapore. Muñoz’s six-under 65 at Sentosa Golf Club’s Serapong course gives him a one-shot advantage over a group of six players – Brooks Koepka, Martin Kaymer, Kevin Na, Thomas Pieters, Cameron Tringale and Abraham Ancer. Another eight players are two shots back, including South Africa’s Dean Burmester, whose round included five birdies and a bogey. For Muñoz, Friday’s low round is a welcomed relief after his struggles in ..read more

England’s Matt Wallace birdied five of the first six holes on his way to grabbing the lead in Thursday’s weather-hit first round of the PGA Tour’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson tournament. The 34-year-old from London fired a bogey-free eight-under-par 63 at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, for a one-stroke lead over a group of seven players when darkness halted play with a handful of players still to finish. Sweden’s Alex Noren, Canada’s Taylor Pendrith, Japan’s Taiga Semikawa and Americans Chesson Hadley, Jake Knapp, Davis Riley and Kelly Kraft all carded 64, but no one could hit the early target se ..read more

Louis Albertse rose to the fore in a field of champions as he opened with a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 to lead the Sunshine Tour’s new Waterfall City Tournament of Champions powered by Attacq by two strokes at Royal Johannesburg’s East Course on Thursday. MICHAEL VLISMAS reports. As one of the select professionals in a 34-player field that has brought together champions from the Sunshine Tour, Sunshine Ladies Tour and the elite amateur ranks of GolfRSA, Albertse got off to the perfect start in the chase to the R1-million first-place cheque come Sunday. The winner of last season’s KitKa ..read more

Tiger Woods still hopes to play one tournament a month for the rest of the year, despite his physical limitations in the wake of a 2021 car crash. “I have the next three months – three Majors – and hopefully that works out,” Woods said in an interview on NBC’s Today show on Wednesday. The 15-time Major champion drew huge crowds at The Masters last month, but his 16-over-par total was the highest 72-hole score of his career and left him last among the 60 golfers who made the cut at Augusta National. Even so, Woods indicated he was looking forward to tackling the PGA Championship at Valhalla on ..read more

Australian Jason Day returns this week to the scene of his drought-busting victory in last year’s Byron Nelson, hoping another solid performance in the Texas tournament will further bolster his Paris Olympics dream. Day’s victory in the 2023 Byron Nelson was his first PGA Tour title in more than five years. It came 13 years after he lifted his first Tour trophy in the same event. He returns to TPC Craig Ranch in suburban Dallas not only with a repeat on his mind but with an eye on a first Olympic campaign. “If I get the opportunity, I’m 100% going,” Day, currently the top-ranked Australian and ..read more