MALELANE, South Africa — Ockie Strydom claimed his first DP World Tour title with a 2-shot victory on the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa on Sunday.
Strydom made 4 birdies in his first 5 holes after the flip to grab the outright lead and he completed with a 3-under 69 for 18 beneath par general at Leopard Creek Nation Membership.
“It is good. It is my favourite place,” Strydom stated. “I am simply comfortable.”
The 37-year-old South African edged Spain’s Adrian Otaegui (-16), who closed with a 68. England’s Laurie Canter (-15) was third, one other stroke behind, after an excellent final-round 64.
Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen (68) completed tied for seventh on 13 beneath.
Strydom had a share of the lead in a single day however had a roller-coaster 4 holes from No. 6 to No. 9, the place he went birdie, bogey, birdie, double-bogey.
That double-bogey on No. 9, after discovering water together with his second shot, threatened to throw off his problem. However he recovered in fantastic vogue by gathering back-to-back birdies on Nos. 10 and 11.
He additionally picked up pictures at Nos. 13 and 14 and made pars all the way in which house.
Strydom’s breakthrough win got here after he equaled the course document with a 63 within the third spherical at Leopard Creek. Scotland’s Scott Jamieson had set that document only a day earlier.
Strydom set a course document with a 63 finally weekend’s South African Open on the Blair Atholl Golf and Equestrian Property in Johannesburg, the place he completed in a tie for fifteenth.
