This year’s Nedbank Golf Challenge will have a new format, with 30 players lining up, instead of the traditional 12 players. The big advantage of that is that typically, in recent years, with a limited field, there have only been about two players in the running by the final day. If you have a bigger field, you have far more chance that there will be at least four or five players who have a chance of winning on the final day.

It also makes it possible to get more players to South Africa than may have been able to come before, and early talk is that US Open winner Justin Rose, will be in South Africa, possibly Adam Scott who won the Masters as well as the recent PGA winner, Jason Dufner. Recent PGA Tour winner Henrik Stenson is also likely to return to a course where he has won twice before. If that is true, then we will have three of the four major winners in South Africa at Sun City. Last year’s British Open winner, Ernie Els, will also be back, so it is really going to be a top class field.