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Sunday 13 November 2022DP World TourYear in Review
Fleetwood wins Nedbank Golf Challenge
Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, South Africa · Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 November 2022 · Tommy Fleetwood’s win no. 6 on the DP World Tour · purse $6,000,000 USD · Nedbank · weather interruptions Friday and Sunday; four rounds completed
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 14 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 83° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R130°/17°C · wind 16 km/h E, gusts 32 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R220°/17°C · wind 16 km/h ENE, gusts 36 · 12.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R323°/17°C · wind 12 km/h NE, gusts 31 · 26.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R426°/17°C · wind 10 km/h SW, gusts 27 · 12.6 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
- Ryan Fox NZL · 278level with Fleetwood playing the 18th, bogeyed the last (his only bogey of the round) to lose by one Nedbank Golf Challenge: Tommy Fleetwood defends title (BBC Sport)
66 started, 66 made it
Same week
DP World Tour event
Nedbank Golf Challenge
Gary Player Country Club, Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, South Africa
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Tommy Fleetwood
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
BBC Sport
13 November 2022
It's been a great week. I already had so many great memories from this place and felt like I had a great connection to it, so this just added to that.
BBC Sport
13 November 2022
It was touch and go on Thursday morning and then on Friday I felt like I had nothing in me at all. I didn't really sleep that night, really poorly again.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tommy Fleetwood | 70 · 70 · 70 · 67 | 277 | −11 |
| 2 | Ryan Fox | 64 · 74 · 72 · 68 | 278 | −10 |
| 3 | Shubhankar Sharma | 72 · 69 · 69 · 69 | 279 | −9 |
| 4 | Richie Ramsay | 69 · 71 · 71 · 69 | 280 | −8 |
| T5 | Sebastian Söderberg | 71 · 71 · 72 · 67 | 281 | −7 |
| T5 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 73 · 68 · 68 · 72 | 281 | −7 |
| 7 | Gavin Green | 72 · 65 · 75 · 70 | 282 | −6 |
| T8 | Min Woo Lee | 68 · 76 · 70 · 69 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Maximilian Kieffer | 70 · 72 · 69 · 72 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Richard Bland | 68 · 68 · 75 · 72 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Branden Grace | 70 · 67 · 71 · 75 | 283 | −5 |
| T8 | Rasmus Højgaard | 69 · 69 · 69 · 76 | 283 | −5 |
The golfer
born 1991-01-19, Southport, Merseyside, England; ENG; turned pro 2010; age 31 that week; tour wins to date: 6; majors to date: 0; world No. 25 that week (OWGR rankBefore (OWGR player profile events table, 2022)).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet