South African Open Championship 2015: Daily Leaderboard Updates and Highlights

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Published: January 8, 2015

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The South African Open Championship marks the beginning of the European Tour's season, and there is no question that several of the world's best golfers would love to get 2015 off to a great start with a victory.

Hopefully it's a sign of things to come as well, with Andy Sullivan triumphing in what was an enthralling climax to a thoroughly entertaining tournament.

Here is a full recap of how the tournament played out.

 

Round 4 Recap



England's Andy Sullivan won the South African Open Championship in dramatic fashion, overcoming Charl Schwartzel in a sudden-death playoff.

Schwartzel held a five-shot lead going into the final day and for long spells it looked as though he had the title sewn up.

But he dropped three shots in the last three holes, leading to a playoff with the Englishman. Sullivan played a poor opening shot in the playoff but a sensational second into the 18th green broke South African hearts and handed him his first win on the European Tour.

Here's how the leaderboard looked at the end of the tournament and a look back at a dramatic day of golf at the Glendower Golf Club, courtesy of EuropeanTour.com:



Firstly, credit must go to the Englishman who put together an excellent final round of 65. His final 18 holes contained four birdies and an eagle, and as we can see here courtesy of the European Tour Twitter account, Sullivan produced some wonderful shots as the tournament came to a close:



Indeed, Sullivan was just short in his birdie putt on the last hole and if that had dropped, he would have won the tournament outright. But he was to be given a major reprieve by Schwartzel, whose game crumbled in the latter stages:



The home crowd favourite hadn’t enjoyed his greatest day out on course but going into the 16th hole he had a three-shot lead intact and the title&md...
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