The South African Open will return to Durban Country Club for the centenary edition of the championship in 2010.

Scotland´s Richie Ramsay held his nerve in a sudden-death play-off with Shiv Kapur from India to win the 99th South African Open Championship at Pearl Valley Golf Estates on Sunday.

India´s Shiv Kapur and Richie Ramsay from Scotland will face each other in a sudden-death play-off for the 99th South African Open Championship title after both players tied on 13-under-par 275.

The golfing gods continued to smile on Pablo Martin, who maintained his grip on the 99th South African Open Championship with a birdie at the last at Pearl Valley Golf Estates near Paarl in the Western Cape on Saturday.

Spain´s Pablo Martin has already withstood a few strong charges on his lead early in the third round of the South African Open at Pearl Valley Golf Estates on Saturday.

The honour of being crowned the leading amateur at the 99th South African Open Championship will be a battle between Dylan Frittelli, JG Claassen and Ryan Dreyer.

Pablo Martin tried hard to convince those who watched him claim the halfway lead in the South African Open Championship at Pearl Valley Golf Estates on Friday that he was not the next great Spanish golfer.

Louis Oosthuizen heads into the weekend of the South African Open only four strokes off the lead. But with his wife expected to go into labour at any moment, Oosthuizen declared that he would not think twice about walking off the golf course to be with her.

The voice of golf was finally lost for words at the 99th South African Open Championship this week.

Dawie van der Walt positioned himself as the lone South African near the top of a South African Open leaderboard dominated by the foreigners after Thursday´s first round at Pearl Valley Golf Estates.

Swedish golfer Martin Erlandsson produced a sublime back nine for a bogey-free eight-under-par 64 to set the clubhouse lead in the opening round of the 2009 South African Open Championship at Pearl Valley Golf Estates on Thursday.

The 99th South African Open Championship has teed off with the first round at Pearl Valley Golf Estates this morning.

Two-time European Tour winner Michael Jonzon led his team to victory in the South African Open Championship´s official pro-am at Pearl Valley Golf Estates on Wednesday.

Richard Sterne is back at the scene of his memorable triumph in last year´s South African Open, and is more determined than ever to take his game to the next level when he defends his title at Pearl Valley Golf Estates this week.

Former Springbok captain and manager, Morne du Plessis, joins fellow rugby legends Schalk Burger Snr and Jnr in an illustrious field for today´s official pro-am of the South African Open Championship at Pearl Valley Golf Estates.

In the true spirit of giving back, defending champion Richard Sterne and four Sunshine Tour professionals hosted a golf development clinic today ahead of this week's South African Open Championship at Pearl Valley Golf Estates.

Charl Schwartzel arrived at Pearl Valley Golf Estates for this week's South African Open with one clear thought in his mind: "The year is not finished yet".

Thomas Aiken, one of the rising stars of South African golf, has made a strong call for the public to show more support for the country’s next generation of golfers at this year’s South African Open.

Welcome to the 99th edition of the South Africa Open Championship, which returns to Pearl Valley for the third consecutive year.

Three of South Africa’s most dominant young players will make the South African Open Championship at Pearl Valley Golf Estates this December their next major focus, with each seeking to cap a solid season with a victory in the second oldest Open in golf.

Richard Sterne has set his sights on becoming the first back-to-back winner of the South African Open Championship since Trevor Immelman in 2003/04 when he defends his title in the 99 th edition of the second oldest national Open at Pearl Valley Golf Estates from 17-20 December 2009.

With just over a month remaining before the 99th South African Open Championship, Pearl Valley Golf Estates is being primed to perfection for its hosting of this co-sanctioned European Tour and Sunshine Tour event.

The 99th South African Open Championship will tee off at Pearl Valley Golf Estates near Paarl in the Western Cape from 17 20 December, with the next generation of global young golf stars seeking to take their place alongside the greats in the second oldest national Open in the game.