Gary Player makes Premlall’s Nedbank Golf Challenge dream come true
[Friday, November 21, 2025 12:13:06]
Yurav Premlall. Credit: Sunshine Tour
Yurav Premlall. Credit: Sunshine Tour
Gary Player has extended a personal invitation to Sunshine Tour professional Yurav Premlall to make his dream debut in the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City from 4-7 December.
In writing to the 22-year-old professional, Player said, “I am delighted to personally invite you to participate in the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City this year. It has been an absolute pleasure to watch the development of your career as you’ve gone from being one of GolfRSA’s top amateurs and the winner of the 2021 Nedbank Junior Challenge, to a champion on the Sunshine Tour. I look forward to seeing you on the first tee at the Gary Player Country Club as you make your debut in ‘Africa’s Major’.”
Premlall was delighted to receive the invitation from Player.
“It’s such an honour to receive this invitation from Gary Player. He is a golfer who means so much to all of us as South African professionals. I cannot wait to make my debut in a tournament that I also grew up watching and wanting to compete in one day,” he said.
Premlall will feel quite at home at the Gary Player Country Club, having enjoyed previous success here.
In 2021 he lifted the Freddie Tait Cup as the leading amateur in his national Open when it was played at Sun City.
That same year he won the Nedbank Junior Challenge at the Gary Player Country Club.
He now returns to Sun City as a rising professional who claimed his maiden Sunshine Tour victory in 2024.
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