Month: September 2025

• Nedbank Golf Challenge elevates Hospitali-TEE Lounge VIP fan experience.
• Fans will meet players, pose with the Nedbank Golf Challenge trophy, get exclusive merchandise vouchers, and more.
• Tickets and hospitality now on sale HERE.

The Nedbank Golf Challenge has significantly elevated its fan experience for the 2025 showpiece event at Sun City’s Gary Player Country Club from 4-7 December, with a Hospitali-TEE Lounge offering that is a first-of-its-kind in the history of “Africa’s Major”.
 
This year’s Hospitali-TEE Lounge fans will get exclusive 18^thgrandstand access as well as player autograph opportunities, a photo opportunity with the Nedbank Golf Challenge trophy at the Hospitali-TEE Lounge facility, a voucher to the value of R500 per Hospitali-TEE Lounge ticket purchased for official Nedbank Golf Challenge merchandise at The Pro Shop at Sun City, and a range of other enhancements to this popular concept.
 
The Hospitali-TEE Lounge made a spectacular debut at the 2024 Nedbank Golf Challenge with its location right in the heart of The Stretch alongside the Public Village, and giving the golf fan who wants an elevated day experience access to a VIP facility with multiple benefits.
 
Building on this already successful concept, this year’s Hospitali-TEE Lounge has combined the standard and premium packages of last year into a new superior package offering an unrivalled Nedbank Golf Challenge experience.
 
This year’s Hospitali-TEE Lounge package includes:
 

• Access to the day’s golf
• Access to the Hospitali-TEE Lounge in an air-conditioned facility with indoor and outdoor seating and a live TV feed of the golf
• Exclusive access to the VIP Grandstand at the 18^th hole
• A premium buffet with an upgraded menu
• An all-day coffee station with speciality coffees such as flavoured lattes and ice coffee
• An all-day and unlimited premium bar with an upgraded offering of five-star brands
• Daily prizes
• A player autograph opportunity
• An exclusive photo opportunity with the Nedbank Golf Challenge trophy at the facility
• A voucher to the value of R500 per Hospitali-TEE Lounge ticket purchased for official Nedbank Golf Challenge merchandise at The Pro Shop at Sun City OR A limited edition VVIP packaged 750ml Boschendal Nicholas red wine

 
The Hospitali-TEE Lounge will be open daily from 07:30 to 18:00, with the following dining times:
 

• Breakfast: 08:00 – 11:00
• Lunch: 12:00 – 15:00
• Snacks: 15:30 – 17:00

 
The 2025 Hospitali-TEE Lounge will break every hospitality record in the illustrious history of “Africa’s Major” as golf fans are given a once-in-a-lifetime experience of this premier DP World Tour event.

Wild Coast (Eastern Cape) – South Africa’s Jacques P de Villiers tamed a windy Wild Coast Sun Country Club with a sublime 63 to share lead with England’s Joe Knox in Wednesday’s first round of the Sunbet Challenge hosted by Wild Coast Sun.

“Today was really good. I hit the ball nicely with good control. The conditions were, however, really tough,” De Villiers said.

De Villiers started his round on the 10^th hole and, as is often the case at the Wild Coast Sun, was playing straight into the teeth of the wind early on.

“I started my round with the wind blowing a lot. Holes 11, 12, 13 and 14 play into the wind and they are very tough. I got through those at one under par and used my chances from there on. It wasn’t a very spectacular round but I did make eight birdies and putted well, which helped a lot,” he said.

De Villiers is still looking for a maiden Sunshine Tour title, but doesn’t want to get too far ahead of himself.

“I am really looking forward to the following two rounds, but there is still a lot of golf left. I have to keep my head up an be patient because that is what this course demands. Hopefully some putts can fall and good things can happen.”

Albert Venter (65) is two strokes further back and the leaders’ nearest challenger on five under par, followed by Michael Hollick (66) and Samuel Simpson (66) on four under par.

Jonathan Broomhead, the winner of last month’s Sunbet Challenge hosted by Time Square at Wingate Park Country Club, had to settle for a level-par opening round of 70. – Michael Vlismas Media

• Aldrich Potgieter and Christiaan Bezuidenhout strengthen SA challenge

• Nedbank Golf Challenge Hospitali-TEE Lounge offers enhanced VIP fan experience.

• Hospitali-TEE tickets now on sale HERE.

South African golf sensation Aldrich Potgieter will return to the Nedbank Golf Challenge a year after almost winning it on his debut when he joins the 2025 field for this DP World Tour event at Sun City from 4-7 December.

He’ll be joined by multiple DP World Tour champion Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who returns to a Gary Player Country Club course where he won the 2020 South African Open.

The 20-year-old Potgieter was given a personal invitation by Gary Player, in whose honour the tournament is played, to compete in the 2024 Nedbank Golf Challenge and led by three strokes going into the final round before finishing tied second to Johannes Veerman.

This year he returns to the Gary Player Country Club as the youngest South African winner in PGA TOUR history following his maiden win in the Rocket Classic in June, and as the highest ranked South African golfer on the Official World Golf Ranking just outside the top 50.

“My first experience of the Nedbank Golf Challenge last year was so memorable. I’ll never forget the crowds on the Saturday when I was leading, and the amazing support from the South African fans. To walk onto that first tee box and hear the cheers, and then to have Gary Player sitting there as well are some of my fondest golf memories. I can’t wait to get back to Sun City and experience it all again,” said Potgieter.

It’s been a meteoric rise for Potgieter, who only two years ago was still one of the top amateurs in the game. After turning professional he became the youngest ever winner in Korn Ferry Tour history at the age of 19 years, four months and 11 days in 2024, and then made his PGA TOUR breakthrough this year.

The young South African, who has stunned world golf with his prodigious length of the tee, joins defending champion Veerman and fellow South African Daniel van Tonder, who qualified by virtue of his victory in last season’s Sunshine Tour Courier Guy Order of Merit, as amongst the early stars confirmed for “Africa’s Major”.

Bezuidenhout makes his fourth appearance in a tournament where he has a strong record, having finished tied fifth in 2022 and tied sixth in 2024.

This year’s Nedbank Golf Challenge will once again feature the popular Hospitali-TEE Lounge, offering an unrivalled viewing experience for fans.

The Hospitali-TEE Lounge offers access to the day’s golf, an unlimited premium bar and buffet, a Nedbank Golf Challenge merchandise voucher, a seat on the VIP grandstand at the 18^th green, a photo opportunity with the trophy, live entertainment, daily prizes and a player autograph opportunity.

This enhanced fan experience is centrally located close to the public village, with an air-conditioned facility that brings the best of the Nedbank Golf Challenge to the comfort of the Lounge with indoor and outdoor seating and a live TV feed of the golf.