Five South Africans, including little-known Ryan van Velzen, will tee it up at the PGA Championship in the USA next week.
The year's second Major will be played in Kentucky and include 16 LIV Tour golfers.Five South Africans, including 22-year-old Ryan van Velzen, will tee it up at next week’s second Major golf tournament of the year, the
Joining Van Velzen, who has qualified to play in his first Major by winning the 2023/24 Sunshine Tour’s Order of Merit, will be Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Dean Burmester, Thriston Lawrence and Erik van Rooyen., who like Burmester plays on the LIV Golf Tour, was given a special invitation to play the PGA Championship, but turned it down due to “personal reasons”.
In total, 16 LIV Tour players will tee it up next week, among them Burmester, who was also handed an invite after capturing his first LIV title earlier this season. Other LIV stars in the field include last year’s PGA champion, Brooks Koepka, who will be a hunting a sixth Major title, Cameron Smith and Jon Rahm.The full field will include 156 of the best players in the game, with the last two spots to be filled this weekend, by the winners of the PGA Tour events at the Wells Fargo Championship and Myrtle Beach Classic.Van Velzen, who hails from Benoni, will be the most foreign player to SA and world golfing fans playing at Valhalla.
He hit the headlines when he challenged for the SA Open title at Blair Athol in 2023, eventually finishing second and then he went on to claim a third Sunshine Tour victory in 10 months earlier this year.By winning the Order of Merit he will also tee it up at the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon in July.WATCH: Gary Player makes long-range chip-in alongside Trump, criticises Woods
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