Meyer wins South to East
[Saturday, June 10, 2017 09:11:59]Breyten Meyer signed for a seven-under-par 65 final round to take his total to 13-under and win the South to East Challenge co-sanctioned by the Big Easy Tour and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Tour at Ebotse Links on Friday.
Trailing by a shot going into a delayed third round in Benoni, Meyer opened his final round with pars on the first and second holes before he made birdie on third. Then, an unwanted bogey on the fourth hole got into his card but that was quickly made up for when he made consecutive birdies on five, six and seven.
The back nine proved to be smooth-sailing as Meyer continued to fire in birdies and pars en route to his maiden victory on the BET circuit.
“I started quite badly today,” he said. “The greens were frozen and (we) delayed for an hour. I actually hit some bad shots in those first three holes and I phoned my coach afterwards, and he said I should go through my routines; warm up again and basically start over,” said Meyer after the round.
“So, that also kind of got the baggage out of the way now,” Meyer said, “and I saw Herman (Loubser) was now in the lead and I could come from behind. I knew I was playing well so I just had to be patient through the rest of the day.”
That the conversation with the coach and the patience he speaks of seems to have done the trick because Meyer began to pull away from Herman Loubser. “I just stuck to my routines and I knew that mentally I was going through my routines very well, so I just stuck to that,” said Meyer. While Loubser put up a gallant fight through the last two rounds, as evidenced by his final nine-under-par 207 finish for second, the four shots lead that Meyer had established proved difficult to cut down.
Scores:
203 - Breyten Meyer
207 – Herman Loubser
211 – Luke Joy
214 – Bryn Flanagan, Danie van Niekerk, Ryan Cairns, Dean O’Reily
215 – Chris van der Meulen, Ben Amor, PH McIntyre, Jordan Garnish, Henric Sturehed, Allister de Kock
216 – Estiaan Conradie, Jamie Elson, Divan Gerber, Jonathan Waschefort, Martiz Wessels, Omar Sandys,
217 – Irvin Mazibuko, Etienne Bond, Jeff Hopikins,
218 – Coert Groenewald, Chris Cannon, Jacquin Hess, Daniel Hammond, Anton Haig
219 – Luke Jerling, Conway Kunneke, Combrinck Smit
220 – Bennie van der Merwe, Dense van den Berg
221 – Jason Smith
222 – Stuart Smith, Drikus van der Walt, Altaaf Bux
223 – Cyril Suk, Thanda Mavundla, Russel Franz, Brett Liddle, Roberto Lupini, Frederik From
224 – Clifford Thompson, Siphiwe Siphayi, Matias Calderon, Andi Dill, Kenneth Dube, Pieter Kruger
225 – Francois Coetzee, Tyler Horgarty
226 – Dwayne Basson, Antonio Costa
227 – Aubery Beckley, Kevin Edwards
231 – Quintin Wilsnach