Home favorite Thriston Lawrence held off a spirited cost from Frenchman Clement Sordet to win the DP World Tour’s South African Open by one shot in Johannesburg on Sunday. Lawrence stuttered to a two-over-par 74 in his ultimate spherical after dropping 5 pictures in as many holes on the again 9, not helped by a double-bogey on the fifteenth that allowed Sordet to attract stage after the South African had been cruising to the win.

They had been neck and neck going into the ultimate two holes, however when Sordet missed a brief par putt on the seventeenth, Lawrence held his nerve to win with a rating of 16 underneath par, his third tour title having additionally claimed the Omega European Masters in August. “There are no remarks column on a scorecard and I managed to get it done,” a relieved Lawrence stated. “Clement was playing really well, I was playing well then made a few mistakes.

“This is what you attempt for, being a child you dream for this second, to win such a prestigious occasion in entrance of a tremendous crowd.”

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