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2021 Gauteng Championship
Sunshine Tour
Ebotse Links and Country Estate
Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
18-21 March 2021
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2021 Gauteng Championship will be played at the Ebotse Links and Country Estate between 18 and 21 March.
This tournament will be presented by a global online gambling company, Betway and it is part of the 2020/21 Sunshine Tour season.
It is set to take place a few days after Jaco Prinsloo clinched this year's Players Championship in Midrand, Gauteng on Sunday.
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The Players' Championship was the second Sunshine Tour event to take place in 2021 after the Kit Kat Group Pro Am earlier this month.
Prinsloo won on the third hole of a three-way playoff in a frantic final-round chase to glory at the Dainfern Golf Estate.
The South African golfer Prinsloo and his compatriots Jake Roos and Daniel van Tonder all finished regulation play tied for the lead on 25 under.
Prinsloo went on to hole his two-foot putt for birdie and clinched his second Sunshine Tour victory and he will be among the favourites at the Gauteng Championship.
However, the 31-year-old will face stiff competition from the likes of Roos, Van Tonder, Michael Palmer, Thriston Lawrence as well as Jean Hugo.
While Rhys Enoch, who won the 2021 Kit Kat Group Pro Am, will also be eyeing his second win in 2021 when he competes in the Gauteng Championship.
Multiple Sunshine Tour champion Jbe Kruger is looking forward to competing in this week's tournament in the East Rand.
“I want to get my swing natural again and go back to the root of how I used to play. My strength was always my ball striking," Kurger said.
"I was good because I hit the ball really well. I always said I just need to make putts to score well, because I knew I never had to worry about my ball striking.
"But the last few years that hasn’t been the case. In my desire to improve, I lost that strong point to my game.”
Last five Sunshine Tour winners
2015 - George Coetzee - SA
2016/17 - Brandon Stone - SA
2017/18 - George Coetzee - SA
2018/19 - Zander Lombard - SA
2019/20 - J.C Ritchie - SA
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