Africa Open 2015: Daily Leaderboard Analysis, Highlights and More

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Published: March 5, 2015

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Home favourite Trevor Fisher was crowned king of the Africa Open on Sunday, with an emphatic eight-under-par round of 64 enough for the South African to claim his first European Tour victory by five shots, as European Tour revealed:



Englishman Matt Ford enjoyed a great week to land second place, but Fisher never looked in danger of surrendering the two-shot lead he took into the final day.

Here’s a look at the final leaderboard from a scintillating tournament at the East London Golf Club:



 

Day 4 Recap

While a 24-under-par total is enough to win any tournament, it’s how Fisher got to that astronomical figure that’s really impressive.

The South African was four shots adrift of Ford on seven under heading into the weekend, but suddenly he found the formula for success.

A 63 and a 64 followed, with Fisher’s round on Sunday being all the more commendable by the pressure on his shoulders.



He wasn’t feeling an ounce of it, though, and flew out the traps with birdies on the first and third holes to give himself some breathing space on the field.

Fisher’s first bogey since the first hole of the second round followed at the par-three fifth, but he wasn’t to be shaken.

Answering back with two straight birdies was the perfect way to get back on track, and from then on, the tournament crown was never going anywhere else.

Four more birdies saw Fisher take a five-shot lead down the final hole, where he chalked up another birdie to win the title in emphatic style—per The European Tour:



The conditions and course were in his favour, sure, but the way Fisher conducted himself was as if he was going for his 101st European Tour win, not his first.

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