Louis Oosuizen Fills 3rd PGA Golf Spot
This year’s Open Championship was held at the legendary St. Andrews Course in Scotland, and saw South African Louis Oosthuizen beat out Lee Westwood for the title. Louis Oosuizen will now join 2010 Masters Champion Phil Mickelson and 2010 US Open winner Graeme McDowell at this year’s PGA Grand Slam of Golf, which will be held this fall at the Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton Bermuda from October 18-20.
The event sees the best of the best tee off to decide the title of “Champion of Champions”, and will once on TNT, where it is broadcast in prime-time to over 85 million American homes as well as an international audience of more than 100 countries.
Mr. Oosthuizen has won five professional tournaments on the Sunshine Tour, the 2004 Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour event at Arabella, the 2007 Dimension Data Pro-Am and Platinum Classic, and the Telkom PGA Championship twice, in 2007 and 2008. He played on the European Challenge Tour in 2003 and has been a member of the European Tour since 2004. In 2009 he finished 31st on the Race to Dubai. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
In March 2010, he won his first European Tour event at the Open de Andalucia de Golf. He also won the 2010 Masters Par 3 Contest. In his first two rounds at the 2010 Open Championship, Mr Oosthuizen shot 65 and 67 for a total of 132 to tie the record for the lowest 36-hole score in an Open Championship at St Andrews. His final score was 16 strokes under par, beating Lee Westwood by seven strokes, finishing his four rounds in 272 strokes – the second lowest in St Andrews history.
Premier Dr Ewart Brown extended his congratulations saying “We are thrilled that Louis has claimed this prestigious title. The conditions at St. Andrews proved to be a very challenging this year, and his seven stroke victory was one of the most impressive in a major championship. He displayed true championship form, and we look forward to welcoming him at this year’s Grand Slam of Golf.”
The fourth Grand Slam spot will be filled next month when the winner of the PGA Championships is decided.
