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Sunday 9 December 2007European TourYear in Review

Bickerton wins Alfred Dunhill Championship

Leopard Creek Country Club, South Africa · Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 December 2007 · John Bickerton’s win no. 3 on the European Tour · purse €1,000,000 EUR · Alfred Dunhill

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

13 h 33 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 88° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R125°/20°C · wind 20 km/h SSE, gusts 44 · 11 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R223°/20°C · wind 18 km/h S, gusts 41 · 4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R322°/19°C · wind 18 km/h S, gusts 46 · 1.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R426°/19°C · wind 9 km/h SE, gusts 22 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.

The ones it got away from

156 started, 66 made it

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

DP World Tour event

Alfred Dunhill Championship

Leopard Creek Country Club, Leopard Creek Country Club, South Africa

4 of 5 researched

Winner

John Bickerton

275Total
−13To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

From the papers

Mail & Guardian (Reuters)

But let's keep things in proportion, this is sport. It's not like anyone died out there. I just have to take it on the chin and move on.

Ernie Els, quoted in Mail & Guardian (Reuters), 10 December 2007. The report

Mail & Guardian (Reuters)

I really didn't feel like it was a lay-up situation. Like I said, people will disagree, but it's easy to be smart and make judgements after the event.

Ernie Els, quoted in Mail & Guardian (Reuters), 10 December 2007. The report

Mail & Guardian (Sapa-AFP)

I'm extremely disappointed about what happened there, but these things happen in golf and I need to get back on my horse and try and win this week,

Ernie Els, quoted in Mail & Guardian (Sapa-AFP), 12 December 2007. The report
Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1John Bickerton70 · 69 · 68 · 68275−13
T2Ernie Els70 · 69 · 64 · 73276−12
T2Lee Slattery73 · 65 · 67 · 71276−12
4Joost Luiten75 · 71 · 64 · 67277−11
5Ross McGowan71 · 69 · 67 · 72279
T6David Dixon72 · 72 · 67 · 69280
T6Pelle Edberg74 · 66 · 73 · 67280
8Sion E Bebb67 · 72 · 74 · 68281
T9David Carter72 · 71 · 70 · 69282
T9Hennie Otto75 · 69 · 68 · 70282
T9Francois Delamontagne77 · 67 · 70 · 68282
T9Richard Bland69 · 70 · 73 · 70282
T9Mike Lorenzo-Vera72 · 70 · 73 · 67282
The golfer

born 1969-12-23, Redditch, England; ENG; turned pro 1991; age 37 that week; tour wins to date: 3; majors to date: 0; world No. 254 that week (OWGR rankBefore (week 49, 2007) from OWGR player profile events table; age computed from Wikipedia birth date and event end date).

Source

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