Every year, the media in South Africa lament the fact that the Nedbank Golf Challenge field is weaker than usual. I am not sure what they compare it to, because every year they allege that it is weaker than usual, and I think if there was to be any substance in what they write, the field must then be weak, and they would then be able to say the same as usual!

In any event, and I have written about this before, it appears year after year that those who play in the Nedbank Challenge do very well the next year on the year’s world circuits and this year has been no exception with the latest event in the World Golf Championships, being won by Hunter Mahan, this past weekend, who of course played at Sun City. It is Hunter’s second win for the season and others who featured at Sun City, and have been in tremendous form this year include Retief Goosen, Tim Clark who then went on to win the Players Championship and Robert Allenby.