MOSSEL BAY GOLF NEWS - Mossel Bay's Martin Vorster sealed his victory of the Tshwane Junior Open title in stunning fashion after an eagle at the par five 17th gave him the chance to defeat Ayden Senger from Western Province in a sudden death playoff.

Senger set the first round pace on Sunday, 7 July with a blistering eight-under-par 64 and the Southern Cape junior trailed by four shots going into Monday's final round at Irene Country Club.

Senger made a stumbling start, though. He stemmed the bleeding with a trio of birdies around the turn and birdied the par five 17th, but by the time he signed for an even-par 72, the Durbanville junior had been caught by Vorster.

Vorster was four under after a birdie at the 13th and he cancelled a bogey at the 14th and double bogey at the 15th with a birdie at the par-three 16th and eagle at the 17th for successive rounds of 68. Tied on eight-under 136, the pair had to make two trips down the 18th hole before Vorster clinched victory with a birdie. "I'm really chuffed with my first U19 win of the season," said GolfRSA National Squad member Vorster, who also led the GolfRSA Junior Proteas to a record-setting victory in the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan last month.

It was the second successive victory for the Louis Oosthuizen Junior Golf Academy, after stablemate Jordan Duminy of Mossel Bay claimed a runaway seven-shot victory in the Nomads SA Boys U17 Championship at St Francis Links last week and Vorster was delighted to add to his East of Ireland Amateur Open win in June.

"I've been travelling a lot and I missed out on some of the junior events, so it's pretty great to get the first one under the belt," he said.

Fellow GolfRSA Junior Protea, Casey Jarvis, finished in second on seven under and Duminy rounded out the top three on four under.

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