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Oosthuizen and Schwartzel remain leaders and Alejandro del Rey fights for fourth place

The Alfred Dunhill is suspended and will end on Monday

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The Alfred Dunhill Championship will finish tomorrow Monday. A powerful electrical storm first and a historic downpour shortly after have prevented the game from being completed this Sunday. In fact, no player has been able to finish, not even those who went out in the first match and who will have to return at nine in the morning local time, one hour less in Spain, to play a solitary hole.

The star match with Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Christiaan Bezuidenhout, has barely been able to complete seven holes, so there is still a lot of ground to cover. In fact, Bezuidenhout has taken advantage of the start of the round to take a small bite in the classification and get into the fight for victory. At the time of the suspension, Oosthuizen and Schwartzel maintained the lead with -16, one under par on the day, and Bezuidenhout (-13) had approached three strokes with a partial today of three less. A final bogey on hole 7 has prevented Oosthuizen from going to bed as the sole leader.

The rest of the players seem already too far away to opt for the triumph. In the shared fourth position are Andy Sullivan and Matti Schmid with -11, while Marco Penge is with -10. Five and six strokes difference with respect to two players of such entity as the South African leaders, seems too much advantage to be made up.

As for the Spaniards, heads and tails. Alejandro del Rey (-9) is fully involved in the fight for fourth place. The Madrid player is going with a cumulative two under par after ten holes, with three birdies and a solitary bogey. On the contrary, Manu Elvira (-3) carries a partial of +1 after 15 holes. He has three left to complete his round and is in trouble on hole 7.

It has been a quite chaotic day at Leopard Creek. The departures were brought forward to try to avoid the storm, but it was not possible. The first suspension occurred shortly before half past ten in the morning, Spanish peninsular time. They tried to return at half past one, they even warned the players to warm up again on the practice court, but they couldn’t even go out again because the panorama was hellish, with rain, thunder and lightning. Finally, at three in the afternoon they did take out the players under a real downpour, in very complicated conditions, and just an hour later they had to suspend definitively because the field was already flooded. Absolute chaos.

So, the game will resume at eight in the morning, Spanish peninsular time. It will be this Monday when we solve the equation of who wins the Alfred Dunhill Championship and how the two Spanish golfers who managed to pass the cut finish.

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