The MyGolfLife Open hosted by Pecanwood Estate takes place from January 30 – February 2, as the second of four co-sanctioned events with the Sunshine Tour to kick-start the 2025 Road to Mallorca. Here’s everything you need to know…
Nicklaus design
Pecanwood Golf & Country Club is one of five Jack Nicklaus designed signature courses in South Africa, situated on the stunning Pecanwood Estate which prides itself on an outstanding aesthetic appearance.
Nicklaus courses often include fast greens, wide fairways, several water hazards and strategically placed bunkers, and Pecanwood is no different. The water hazards are ever-present throughout, especially on the signature hole, the par three 13th, which plays along the Hartbeespoort Dam. The layout is set to provide a true test for the 156 players teeing it up.
DP World Tour pedigree
This week will see Pecanwood Golf & Country Club make its debut as a HotelPlanner Tour venue, however it has already proven its international hosting pedigree when this event was on the DP World Tour schedule in 2022. On that occasion it was nine-time winner on golf’s Global Tour, Pablo Larrazábal, who came out on top in a three-man play-off. Interestingly, one of the players he defeated in that play-off was Spanish countryman Adri Arnaus who will again tee it up in Hartbeespoort this week, having had the privilege of hitting the opening tee shot of the HotelPlanner Tour era at the SDC Open last Thursday. He could be one to watch.
Field strength
A strong field assembles at Pecanwood this week, with several DP World Tour winners and a whole host of in-form players vying for the title. One of those is last week’s winner, Daniel van Tonder from South Africa. He’s now a three-time winner on the Sunshine Tour this season, with his SDC Open victory two days ago earning him a first HotelPlanner Tour win. His fellow countryman Shaun Norris will also tee it up in arguably the form of his life. The 42-year-old won the Alfred Dunhill Championship on golf’s Global Tour at the end of December and currently sits third on the Race to Dubai Rankings.
Fellow DP World Tour winners Arnaus, Italian Renato Paratore and Northern Irishman Jonathan Caldwell are also in the field.
