Sunshine Tour

Schaefer will be joined at Mont Choissy-les-Golfes, by former champions John Parry and Antoine Rosner, who are also seeking a second Mauritius Open crown.

The milestone 10th edition of the Sunshine Tour and DP World Tour co-sanctioned event is set to boast one of the strongest fields yet, featuring leading South Africans Thurston Lawrence, Brendan Grace and Dean Burmester.

Shapers says memories of last year's triumph continue to inspire him as he targets another successful week on the island.

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Two and three weeks out, we'll be kind of done with the Northern Hemisphere golf, and we start to pick up the Southern Hemisphere golf.

We'll see tournaments in Australia and the Sunshine Tour get picked up, and by then we're going to know.

I think once we get... to the NSW Open, that November 5th event on the Sunshine Tour where Dean Burmester's playing.

I think we're going to start to know who's going to 2.0 and who's not.

And so then we'll kind of pare down who we're following and who we're not.

And tied ninth on 11 under par, Sutipat Pratip Chienchai, Scott Vincent, Gunn Charoenkul, Kieran Vincent and Ian Snyman.

On to the Sunshine Tour where it was the Stella Artois Players' Championship held at Glendower Golf Club in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Winning here was Dion Gurmeshuis.

It only took one playoff hole for South African Dion Gurmeshuis to win his fourth title on the Sunshine Tour and his first since a win on the Tour in November last year.

Girmishuis had trailed 54-hole leader Cole Stevens by five shots heading into the final round.

However, a final round 4-under 68 for Girmishuis and a 1-over 73 for Cole left both players on 19-under par for the tournament, with momentum sticking with Girmishuis as he scored a birdie in the playoff to Cole's par.

But our golfers are fantastic.

The Sunshine Tour has run fantastically well.

Last week I was at the Blue Label Challenge at Sun City.

I looked at it and I just saw how well golfers, first of all, conduct themselves with their clients and everything like that, and how well golf is running in this country.

I see Dougie McGuigan's shot at 69.

Graham van der Merwe is up there as well.

He's had a very, very good year this year on the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit.

Graham van der Merwe from the Big Easy Tour.

We saw, uh, Oliver Becker, last year's defending champion, obviously at a different golf course, but a worldwide winner.

He's a previous player of the year, winner on the Sunshine Tour.

He's played at Live.

He's played on the DP World Tour.

So, like, you know, guys who've built new apps and stuff.

The guys from the Sunshine Tour, the guys from Golf RSA, shout-outs, JDV, and the H&O Handicap app.

Because...

I was under the impression that I was going to have a target on my back at that particular event because we had just released the Handicap app episode.

Flip, now the guys, they're going to kill me because I think they do listen to this podcast.

But guys from Cape Town have also built a, let's call it like the platonic of golf.

And a variety of other guys and apparel guys who are... like new kids on the block who are like excited about being disruptive in the golf industry and have a lot of energy and like a lot of like a lot in common and i mean what was interesting is having conversations with all of those people the new people who've who've entered golf is that they all are experiencing the same things of like butting their heads up against kind of this old god and these old systems and old ways of doing things, whether it's like the clubs that don't want to change how they book their tea times, you know, and the associations who don't want to provide access to their apps and, you know, the Sunshine Tours who, like let's say the tours or the PGA guys who maybe have a certain very fixed way of doing things their training or their events or you know it's like they they're almost a little bit stuck in their ways because they've got they've got legacy behind them whereas sort of new kids on the block don't we like we we don't have that legacy we we just like kind of fumbling around and like seeing what sticks and you know we we've got a lot we're a lot a lot leaner and a lot like more nimble and like a lot more a lot a lot a lot of people that are like frustrated with with the industry.

So I think there was a very clear observation at the PGA show was this like, this like old versus new, which is kind of cooking in South African golf ecosystem at the moment.

Yes, I'd say in the main, caddies are still generally poorly paid in the country.

If you're a professional caddy, Perhaps, you know, if you were in the top 10% of a player, maybe playing on the Sunshine Tour or the DP World Tour, perhaps.

But generally speaking, it's still in the main quite a poorly paid job.

A lot of caddies still rely on tips from players.

I think Investec has done a pretty good job in terms of what they've done in terms of this article, but I think there's a bit of an undercount there in terms of just the number of people employed within golf.

the number of courses how much they value that because a lot of the courses also are still municipal land and that they haven't really been put up onto the open market for valuation properly and i think there's quite a few of them which are valued quite high in terms of huge numbers but my personal view is that 50 million rand 50 billion is a yes it seems large but i think it's probably larger than that

sure The events that we have, the Sunshine Tour, there are other sort of events.

There are lots of golfing tournaments.