2019 Duckhook Open – The Ebotse Links

The 3rd Major of the Season, The Duckhook Open, took place at the home of the Open, The Ebotse Link on Friday the 2nd of August.

The Top 32 Qualifying Players from the Thursday and Sunday League took part in arguably the toughest challenge on the entire Duckhook Calendar.

The Qualifying cycle took place over the months of May, June and July. The Open Field consisted of the 2018 Player of the Season, 2018 Thursday and Sunday League Champions, the previous 4 Major Champions including defending Champion Pierre Grobbelaar as well as the League winners during the qualifying period and finally the remaining Top 16 from the Thursday and Sunday Leagues.

The Major format once again being Medal requiring the players to finish every hole over the 6372 meter Links Layout for a share of 3933,664 Player Rankings Points with 850 points going to the Champion.

Starting from the 10th Tee the field teed off from least Individual Stableford Points to Highest points earned over the qualifying period.

The 2019 Edition came down to the Final hole of the Tournament with Dylan Stafford and Karl Jaacks both setting the club house lead on -1.

Dylan Stafford (13) put together a round which included 4 Birdies coming on the Par 4 – 13th, Par 3 – 15th, Par 3 – 2nd and Par 5 – 5th to go with 3 Pars to sign for a -1 (83).

Karl Jaacks (6) steadily made his way through the back nine to shoot a 4 over Par – 39 where after putting an even better front nine together with 6 Pars and 2 Birdies for a 1 over Par 37 to shoot the low round of the day a -1 (76)

Frikkie Barnard (10) stood on the 9th Tee (Final hole) in a tie for the lead needing only to make a Par to secure his 1st Major Title. Reaching this point Frikkie shot 3 over Par 38 on the back nine which included 6 Pars to reach the halfway stage on -2. Reaching the Par 4 – 6th hole still in the lead a Double Bogey saw Frikkie drop from -2 to -1 into a three way tie with 3 holes to play. He went on to Par on the Par 5 – 7th and Par 3 – 8th to reach the final hole needing a Final Par.

It was to be Frikkie’s day after managing to set up a 2 foot Par putt to take the 2019 Open Championship and adding his First Major to his Duckhook career.

FINAL RESULT

POS.	PLAYER	HCP	TO PAR	RANKING POINTS
1	Frikkie Barnard	10	-2	850,00
T2	Dylan Stafford	13	-1	425,00
T2	Karl Jaacks	6	-1	425,00
T4	Pierre Grobbelaar	15	E	209,67
T4	Rhyan Jeanson	13	E	209,67
T4	Christo Ehlers	9	E	209,67
7	Robert Michael	25	+1	153,00
8	Francois Calitz	11	+2	136,00
T9	Ruben Swart	7	+3	123,25
T9	Nico Roets	5	+3	123,25
T11	Matt Botwood	12	+4	106,25
T11	Andrew Smith	15	+4	106,25
T13	Graham de Villiers	14	+5	89,25
T13	Dhana Perumal	8	+5	89,25
T15	Tiaan Bekker	8	+6	78,63
T15	Danie Geldenhuys	2	+6	78,63
17	Richard Stewart	10	+7	72,25
18	Peter Zachariou	12	+8	68,00
T19	Leon van Aarde	21	+9	59,50
T19	Aldo Fourie	10	+9	59,50
T19	Dean Sherman	7	+9	59,50
T22	Dawie v/d Merwe	4	+11	50,15
T22	Alan Louw	7	+11	50,15
T22	Gideon Richter	8	+11	50,15
25	Jacques Sobiech	17	+14	45,05
26	Paul Ricketts	17	+15	43,35
27	Andre Kotze	4	+16	41,65
T28	Rudi Matthee	6	+20	39,53
T28	Mazz Lacueva	17	+20	39,53
30	Simon Meyer	13	+27	38,25
31	Kobus Schoeman	19	+28	37,40
32	Ndaba Nkomo	11	DNF	36,55

Duckhook Open Champions

YEAR	PLAYER	COURSE
2014	Richard Maspero	Gary Player – Sun City
2015	Leedam Vercellino	Ebotse Links
2016	Jason Ivins	Ebotse Links
2017	Jaco Grobbelaar	Ebotse Links
2018	Pierre Grobbelaar	Ebotse Links
2019	Frikkie Barnard	Ebotse Links

The 2019 Season will Feature the 4 Traditional Duckhook Majors; The Players Championship, The Masters, The Open and the Duckhook Summer Cup.

Qualifying for the invitation only Medal Tournaments, player collect as many Individual Stableford point as possible over a 3 month qualifying cycle to earn the right to compete in the coveted Tournaments.

The Field will include, 2018 Past Champions, 2019 Champions League Champions and the Player of the Season.

MAJOR	3 MONTH CYCLE
Players Championship	November 2018 to January 2019
The Masters	February to April
The Open	May to July
The Summer Cup	August to December

The Masters Field will be comprised of:

TITLE
2019 Player of the Season	Danie Geldenhuys
2019 Thursday League Champion	Karl Jaacks
2019 Sunday League Champion	Richard Stewart
2018 Majors Champions	Mazz Lacueva	Ruben Swart	Pierre Grobbelaar	Richard Stewart
3x Thursday League Winners (May to June)	Danie Geldenhuys	Jacques Sobeich	Dylan Stafford
3x Sunday League Winners (May to June)	Jaco de Kock (n/a)	Barry Venter (n/a)	Danie Geldenhuys
Top 10 Thursday League (Exclu. Winners)
Top 10 Sunday League (Exclu. Winners)

Top 32 Field

*Players Tee off from Lowest to Highest I.S Points Earned

1ST TEE	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	PLAYER 3	PLAYER 4
11:00	Pierre Grobbelaar – 52	Jacques Sobiech – 64	Ruben Swart – 86	Paul Ricketts – 88
11:10	Kobus Schoeman – 90	Gerhard Snyman – 91	Dawie v/d Merwe – 91	Ndaba Nkomo – 94
11:20	Alan Louw – 94	Simon Meyer – 94	Dylan Stafford – 95	Rhyan Jeanson – 95
11:30	Leon van Aarde – 96	Matt Botwood – 96	Graham de Villiers – 97	Karl Jaacks -97
11:40	Aldo Fourie – 98	Richard Stewart – 98	Robert Michael – 98	Gideon Richter – 100
11:50	Rudi Matthee – 100	Dean Sherman – 100	Nico Roets – 100	Andrew Smith – 101
12:00	Christo Ehlers – 102	Peter Zachariou – 103	Frikkie Barnard – 103	Mazz Lacueva – 75
12:10	Andre Kotze – 103	Tiaan Bekker – 105	Dhana Perumal – 108	Danie Geldenhuys -112

Thursday League Qualifying – Round 3 of 3

POS.	PLAYER	TOTAL POINTS	TITLES
Q	Danie Geldenhuys	112	2018 Player of the Season
Q	Karl Jaacks	97	2018 Thursday League
Q	Pierre Grobbelaar	52	2018 Open Champ
Q	Mazz Lacueva	75	Players Champ
Q	Jacques Sobiech	64	Winner: Kyalami
Q	Dylan Stafford	95	Winner: Irene

7	Tiaan Bekker	105
8	Andre Kotze	103
9	Frikkie Barnard	103
N/A	Bobby van der Spuy	102
10	Christo Ehlers	102
11	Andrew Smith	101
12	Nico Roets	100
N/A	Ettiene Pienaar	99
N/A	Pieter Prinsloo	99
13	Robert Michael	98
14	Graham de Villiers	97
N/A	Robbie Butler	97
15	Matt Botwood	96
16	Rhyan Jeanson	95
	CUT LINE
17	Jason Ivins	94
18	Bertus Badenhorst	93
19	Mark Borrajeiro	93
20	Carel van der Meulen	92
21	Darren Burger	92
22	Tim Pearman	91
23	Simon Meyer	91
24	Peter Fraser	89
25	Wayne Jeanson	89
SUNDAY	Ruben Swart	86
27	Ryan Estment	84
28	Kevin Ho	83
29	Francois Kamffer	83
30	Dylan de Beer	82
31	Bert Pretorius	81
32	Paul Ricketts	80
33	Joey du Preez	75
34	Sarel Steyn	74
35	Benno Coetzee	72
36	Jamie Sherry	70
37	Dorian Fourie	69
38	Johan van den Heever	66
39	Nerudo Mregi	65
40	Gary Havenga	63
41	Terance Richardson	62
42	Bossie Boshoff	61
43	Russell Tandy	61
44	Tony Borrajeiro	60
45	Wayne Hardaker	60
46	Lyle Langley	57
47	Prinay Panday	55
48	Dave Donald	54
49	Luke Jansen	53
50	Michael Poncet	45
51	Hilton Button	37
52	Jose da Mota	37
53	Andre Laas	36
54	Bartjie de Klerk	36
55	Hussein Ismail	32
56	Juan du Preez	32
57	Guy Steele	32
58	Pete Bolton	31
59	Jaques Mazims	31
60	Muneer Vally	31
61	William Clarke	30
62	Brendan Havenga	30
63	Dawie van der Merwe	29
64	Anthony Heiss	27
65	Tommie Venter	27
66	Chrisjan Jansen	27
67	Stefano Marchetti	26
68	Yoshi Yanagimoto	24
69	Etienne Jacobs	22
70	Stephan Gallacher	21
71	Neville Havenga	21
72	Juan Botha	21
73	Chris Bezhuidenhout	21
74	Johan van Dyk	18
75	John Beauont	18
76	Frederik Nel	17
77	Mike Comber	16
78	Izak Viljoen	14

Sunday League Qualifying – Round 3 of 3

POS.	PLAYER	TOTAL POINTS	TITLES
Q	Richard Stewart	98	2018 Sunday Champ
Q	Ruben Swart	28	2019 Masters Champ
N/A	Jaco de Kock	63	Winner: Wingate
N/A	Barry Venter	95	Winner: Reading

3	Dhana Perumal	108
4	Peter Zachariou	103
THURSDAY	Christo Ehlers	102
5	Dean Sherman	100
6	Rudi Matthee	100
7	Gideon Richter	100
THURSDAY	Graham de Villiers	99
8	Aldo Fourie	98
N/A	Pieter Prinsloo	97
9	Leon van Aarde	96
N/A	Barry Venter	95
N/A	Albert Liebenberg	94
10	Simon Meyer	94
11	Alan Louw	94
12	Ndaba Nkomo	94
THURSDAY	Dylan Stafford	91
13	Dawie vd Merwe	91
14	Gerhard Snyman	91
15	Kobus Schoeman	90
16	Paul Ricketts	88
	CUT LINE	0
THURSDAY	Rhyan Jeanson	90
16	Jandri Oosthuizen	88
17	Bryton Ndiweni	88
THURSDAY	Frikkie Barnard	88
18	Auret van Tonder	87
19	Carl van der Linde	87
20	Francois Calitz	84
21	Leon Oosthuizen	80
22	Robert Michael	79
23	Brendon Pretorious	79
24	Anrich Fourie	78
25	Tiaan Bekker	78
26	Mark Richmond	78
27	Wayne Jeanson	77
28	Marthinus Bekker	76
29	Terance Richardson	76
30	Wayne Hardaker	76
31	Andre Ehlers	76
32	Prinay Panday	73
33	Louis Jeanson	71
34	Dylan de Beer	71
35	Chad Rose	70
36	Dorian Fourie	69
37	John van Deventer	68
38	Quinton Metherell	67
39	John-John J. van Vuuren	66
40	Hanno Oosthuizen	66
41	Peter Wiid	64
42	Jaco de Kock	63
43	Gerhardt Kirchner	63
44	Daniel Jacobs	61
45	Randal Chetty	59
46	Ryan Estment	58
47	Adam Ford	57
48	Craig Greybe	57
49	Wayne McMillan	55
50	James Cameron	55
51	Greg Shaw	55
52	Chris MaWhinney	54
53	Michael Dobie	53
54	Cornell Erasmus	52
55	Don Curle	52
56	Nerudo Mregi	51
57	Les Roets	51
58	Russell Tandy	50
59	Joey du Preez	50
60	Heinrich Botes	48
61	Mazz Lacueva	47
62	Nic Coles	47
63	Chris Bezuidenhout	45
64	Louis du Toit	43
65	Bertus van Jaarsveld	38
66	Sarel Steyn	36
67	Dale Koster	36
68	Gavin Parsons	36
69	Ryan Kwan	35
70	Lukie Jansen	34