Things are not looking too bad for Zeb's Fantasy Race to Dubai team leading up to the final round of the Tshwane Open at Copperleaf Golf and Country Estate, this weekend, in Centurion.
With one day left to go, there are eight golfers from the ten set to pick up a coin or two from the purse, with only Lagergren not making the cut, missing out by 4 strokes and Jaco Van Zyl having to retire after the first day's play.
Fichardt playing golf of his life
Darren Fichardt's the main man yet again, as he was a fortnight ago at the Africa Open picking up his first win of the 2013 season and netting our team the top payout.
Can he do it again, tomorrow? Well he's certainly talking the right game, after falling off the pace following the delayed finish to day two due to storm threat:
“I was upset with yesterday’s round and I fell back to four behind. I wanted to catch that up and get into the mix for tomorrow.
“I’m just hitting the right shots at the right time and making crucial putts.
"If I do hit a bad shot I recover from it and that’s what adds up to good scores, so I’m very happy with my game right now.”
Danny Willett is six shots off the lead on -10. Given that Fichardt and the three other golfers he shares the lead on -16 are liable to card 66 or 67s tomorrow, it would mean Danny having to shoot -11 to be in with a shout of the inaugural Tshwane Open...
...not gonna happen, is it?
4-way tie for lead could see fitting play-off tomorrow
The four way tie at the top could be very interesting. There's Fichardt, as mentioned. He's joined by Charl Coetzee and Dawie Van Der Walt from South Africa and Chile's Mark Tullo makes the quad of golfers on -16.
They've all been consistently carding -4 and -5, so how that's gonna pan out is anyone's guess. A play-off hole or two is not beyond the realms of possibility and would be perhaps quite fitting.
It's been a great few weeks in South Africa to start this year's Race to Dubai. To see several indigenous golfers scrapping it out would be a great finale for South African golf and its fans, tomorrow afternoon.
Of course, Tullo and the chasing pack will have something to say about that, but the way the home-grown golfers have dominated the golf on their home soil has been breathtaking this season.
UK golf not out of the running completely
As far as UK golf stands, There are three Englishmen in with an outside chance of upsetting the applecart. It is an outside chance, mind.
David Howell is only 3 off the pace on -13, with Graeme Storm and Richard Finch only another two back on -11. Not as big an ask as Danny Willett on -10, but only just.
If you really fancy a pound on the outside, Matt Baldwin, Matt Nixon and Gary Lockerbie are all flying the St George one shot further back on -9.