SOUTH AFRICAN STROKE PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP 6 – 9 FEBRUARY 2018 PECANWOOD GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB WELCOME TO PECANWOOD The management and staff look forward to welcoming you to the ‘new’ Pecanwood and wish you all the best in your week with us. The estate’s centrepiece is the Jack Nicklaus signature golf course, which has undergone some major works during the past year. These are merely the results of age and include an ambitious programme to refurbish the course’s bunkers and the installation of a completely new, more efficient, and even more water-wise irrigation system. Although the course will receive more attention this year it eagerly awaits your best efforts to tame this classic “risk and reward” Jack Nicklaus showpiece. The course, with the clubhouse as a focal point, is a superb venue for the SA Stroke Play Championship. Whether you are at the clubhouse to enjoy FRANCOIS SCHOEMAN breakfast before your game of golf, a light lunch CEO | PECANWOOD ESTATE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION with friends or the team, or a snack with your sundowners on the terrace to celebrate your experience, we will be there for you. A CHAMPIONSHIP TEST

n behalf of GolfRSA, I would like to welcome all Otournament participants, golf administrators, members of the media and spectators to the 2018 South African Stroke Play Championship. The SA Stroke Play Championship has a proud history of producing great champions, many of whom have gone on to achieve great things, including Major winners and Trevor Immelman. For the last three years, the trophy has been lifted by a player from the strong international contingent and I’d like to welcome all of our foreign visitors and wish them the best over the course of their stay in SA. I look forward to seeing how this elite field takes on the Pecanwood layout, a superb Jack Nicklaus design that GRANT HEPBURN will offer a true test of championship golf to all players. CEO | GOLFRSA Thanks go to the Pecanwood committee and members, including the greenkeeping staff, for all their hard work in preparing for this tournament and for allowing this prestigious tournament to be hosted on their course. Thanks must also go to the North West Golf Union for ensuring that we have a successful championship. The first Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course in ABOUT Africa was officially opened back in July 1998, when the world’s greatest-ever golfer and esteemed PECANWOOD course architect played the first round on his new lakeside creation. Located adjacent to the Hartbeespoort Dam and on land that was once home to a tomato farm, Pecanwood Golf and Country Club has, over the last PECANWOOD G&CC two decades, grown into one of the finest courses in Hole Par Length the land. Like most Nicklaus designs, it has 1 4 424 generous landing areas, numerous cleverly-placed 2 4 407 bunkers and well-contoured greens. Numerous tee 3 3 162 boxes allow for all levels of golfer to enjoy the layout, 4 4 379 but stretched to its tips – over 7 000 metres – it will 5 5 528 be a very challenging proposition, even for the best 6 4 434 amateurs in the game. 7 5 582 8 3 215 9 4 430 10 5 507 NOTABLE CHAMPIONS 11 4 410 12 5 518 2013 & 2012 Haydn Porteous 13 3 187 2008 14 4 412 2004 Dawie van der Walt 15 4 374 2001 Richard Sterne 16 4 422 1998 Trevor Immelman 17 3 207 1989 Ernie Els 18 4 422 1977 Mark McNulty Total 7 020 1969 & 1970 Dale Hayes Charley Hoff man

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Tommy Fleetwood Rickie Fowler

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