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Sunday 16 December 2007European TourYear in Review
Kingston wins South African Airways Open
Pearl Valley Golf Estate, Paarl, South Africa (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 December 2007 · James Kingston’s win no. 1 on the European Tour · purse €1,000,000 EUR · South African Airways
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 44 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 86° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
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- R4Not yet researched
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Oliver Wilson ENG · 285
156 started, 69 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
DP World Tour event
South African Airways Open
Pearl Valley Golf Estate, Pearl Valley Golf Estate, Paarl, South Africa
3 of 5 researched
Winner
James Kingston
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Kingston | 73 · 69 · 71 · 71 | 284 | −4 |
| 2 | Oliver Wilson | 76 · 69 · 67 · 73 | 285 | −3 |
| T3 | Darren Clarke | 72 · 73 · 74 · 68 | 287 | −1 |
| T3 | Kyron Sullivan | 72 · 71 · 73 · 71 | 287 | −1 |
| T3 | Louis Oosthuizen | 78 · 72 · 66 · 71 | 287 | −1 |
| T3 | Garth Mulroy | 80 · 70 · 64 · 73 | 287 | −1 |
| T7 | Greg Norman | 75 · 70 · 72 · 71 | 288 | E |
| T7 | Nic Henning | 74 · 71 · 70 · 73 | 288 | E |
| T7 | Craig Lile | 73 · 73 · 72 · 70 | 288 | E |
| T7 | Robert Rock | 70 · 75 · 71 · 72 | 288 | E |
The golfer
born 1965-11-30, Ottosdal, South Africa; RSA; turned pro 1988; age 42 that week; tour wins to date: 1; majors to date: 0; world No. 350 that week (OWGR rankBefore (week 50, 2007) from OWGR player profile events table; age computed from Wikipedia birth date and event end date).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet