Every year the media tells us that the field to the Nedbank Challenge is the weakest field in years – despite the fact that we had No 1 and No 2 in the world there last year. The one thing that I have noticed, year after year, is that the players who play well at Sun City, or make the trip to South Africa, seem to do very well the next season.

Last year, the only American to make the trip to South Africa was Jason Dufner, who at that stage had never won on the PGA Tour in over 140 starts. He has now won two tournaments in the last month, and to me it again illustrates that the field at the Gary Player course at Sun City each year is far stronger than most people imagine. After last year’s tournament Lee Westwood went on to win another two tournaments and featured prominently at the Masters, Luke Donald has continued to do well and I am sure, by the end of the season, more of the 12 players who were at Sun City in December 2011, will have won around the world. That is a world-class event, with top, in form players, and it is terribly sad that with a dearth of sport journalists in South Africa, and even less with any knowledge of golf, that we instead see the same repeated headlines every year about the event, just as we do with the December death toll on the roads, etc – it is just regurgitating the same nonsense and the same angle on the same issues every single year without actually looking at the quality of the field or the event.