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I tell you my thing with the drive…

Alejandro Rodríguez — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:15:20 +0000

How wonderful and how damn this blessed sport of ours, golf, can be. If on Thursday they put a paper on the table saying that I am going to finish fifth in the Jonsson Workwear Open, I would have signed it with my eyes closed. However, on Sunday, after having that three-meter putt on the […]

A before and after in the career of Iván Cantero

Alejandro Rodríguez — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:33:45 +0000

Iván Cantero has completed the best week of his professional sports career in South Africa. On Thursday he handed in the lowest card of his life, he was at the top of the tournament all the time and fought for victory until the last five holes. The Asturian is happy and convinced that the Jonsson […]

Manassero culminates one of the most beautiful golf stories in South Africa

Alejandro Rodríguez — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:30:33 +0000

Matteo Manassero has written one of the most beautiful pages in recent golf history today in South Africa. The Italian has won again on the DP World Tour. He has conquered the Jonsson Workwear Open by stringing together four consecutive birdies in a majestic tournament finale. His victory is the purest demonstration that fairy tales […]

The magic of Hidalgo and the tenacity of Cantero meet with victory

Alejandro Rodríguez — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:53:42 +0000

Spanish golf will have two good victory options this Sunday at the Jonsson Workwear Open in South Africa. The magic of Ángel Hidalgo (-18) and the grit of Iván Cantero (-17) have made their way through a complicated moving day to put within reach what could be the first triumph of their careers on the […]

Cantero is the king of his pack

Alejandro Rodríguez — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:17:03 +0000

What Iván Cantero (-13) did today at the Glendower Golf Club in Johannesburg is not common and deserves a lot of credit. In fact, it ranks high in the catalogue of complicated things in golf. In that list, we could suggest the inclusion of leaving a 45-meter bunker shot given, making two putts from 20 […]

Memories of Tuscany in the Dowerglen neighbourhood

Alejandro Rodríguez — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:08:54 +0000

Between Dowerglen and Grosseto there are more than 12,000 kilometres and little or no connection, as far as we know, beyond the Piccola Rossa, a more than recommendable pizzeria located in the Glencurve Shopping Centre, Elm Street. Dowerglen is a neighbourhood to the east of Johannesburg, South Africa, where the Glendower Golf Club is located, […]

Bachem breaks through in Jonsson Workwear Open

Silvia Pereira — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:02:18 +0000

Nick Bachem won the 2023 Jonsson Workwear Open by four strokes after a final round of 64 in Johannesburg. The German headed a crowded leaderboard for much of the final day before pulling clear as his rivals faltered on the back nine. The 23-year-old finished 24 under par at The Club at Steyn City for […]

Darren Fichardt and Martin Vorster lead in Johannesburg

Silvia Pereira — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:56:50 +0000

South Africa’s Darren Fichardt and Martin Vorster took advantage of a cool day and a receptive golf course to share the first-round clubhouse lead in the Jonsson Workwear Open at The Club at Steyn City on Thursday. Fichardt set the clubhouse target with his morning round of eight-under-par 64, and was joined there in the […]

Ritchie makes it back-to-back wins in Durban

Silvia Pereira — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 18:37:16 +0000

JC Ritchie made it back-to-back wins on the European Challenge Tour after he secured a wire-to-wire six-shot victory at the Jonsson Workwear Open and with it, moves to Number One on the Road to Mallorca Rankings. The ten-time Sunshine Tour winner posted a one under par final round of 71 at Durban Country Club to […]

Flawless Ritchie surges ahead on day two in Durban

Silvia Pereira — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:53:20 +0000

JC Ritchie carded a bogey-free nine under par round for the second consecutive day at the Jonsson Workwear Open and will now take a commanding six-shot lead into the weekend as he targets back-to-back Road to Mallorca victories. The nine-time Sunshine Tour winner entered the second round with a two-shot lead after his course record 61 […]