GOLF NEWS - Chilean rising star Matias Calderon sunk a 40-foot long putt for birdie in an unblemished seven-under-par 65 final round of the Eye of Africa PGA Championship to win his maiden Sunshine Tour title on Sunday.
“I had already made one long putt for par on number 13 or 14 if I’m not wrong,” said the young Chilean of his thoughts on that final hole.
“And, for some reason when I looked at it, I was like ‘if I give this the proper pace, it’s going to go in’, so I just focused on pace and I don’t know, for some reason I thought it had a chance.”
Calderon went into the final round of this R1.5 million event trailing overnight leader Combrinck Smit by six shots at this Greg Norman-designed golf course and got right into it with an eagle on the par-five second hole.
“To be honest, when I started the round, I just tried to do my game and see what was going to happen without worrying about Combrinck,” he said about the huge gap between himself and Smit, “but, coming down the stretch it, obviously, starts getting into a bit of match-play. But, I just tried to do my game and luckily for me I played very well.”
