Play suspended at Alfred Dunhill Championship due to weather

MALELANE, South Africa — The Alfred Dunhill Championship is ready to be accomplished on Monday after play was suspended on Sunday due to harmful climate circumstances, with South African main winners Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen sharing the lead on 16-under par within the European tour occasion.

Gamers had been taken off twice due to a menace of lightning. After the second time at 4:42 p.m. native time (1442 GMT), officers mentioned there can be no extra play.

Schwartzel and Oosthuizen had been each 1 beneath for his or her rounds after taking part in seven holes at Leopard Creek Nation Membership. They had been three photographs forward of one other South African, Christiaan Bezuidenhout (3 beneath after seven holes). Andy Sullivan and Matti Schmid are two strokes additional again on 11 beneath.

It is the third straight occasion to begin the season in South Africa after the Joburg Open two weeks in the past and the South African Open Championship, additionally in Johannesburg, final week, each of which had been gained by dwelling participant Dean Burmester, who’s 1 beneath and 15 off the lead.

Seven of the final eight winners of the Alfred Dunhill Championship have been South African gamers.

There’s one other event in Africa — the Mauritius Open subsequent week — earlier than the tour takes a break till mid-January forward of occasions within the Gulf area.