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Warren Yunnie in full strike at last years Mercury Million Golf Tournament at the Champagne Sports Resort in the Drakensberg.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s all systems go for |the sold-out 2012 Mercury Million Golf Tournament, which tees off at the Champagne Sports Resort tomorrow morning. <\/p>\n
Come rain or shine, 120 players will take to the picturesque, top 30-ranked championship golf course surrounded by the majestic Drakensberg. <\/p>\n
This year, for the first time, The Mercury Million will be played over two days, instead of three, with prize-giving on Saturday night so that players can enjoy Sunday at their leisure. <\/p>\n
\u201cOver the years we\u2019ve tweaked the event to make |it one of the most enjoyable |and best value-for-money |amateur golfing tournaments in the country,\u201d said organiser Vivian Sneedon, of Sun Events, yesterday. \u201cAfter a game of golf tomorrow, the entrants will be treated to a welcome braai and entertainment, followed by another competitive day\u2019s play on Saturday.\u201d <\/p>\n
The field \u2013 which consists largely of captains of business and entrepreneurs \u2013 will enjoy a prize-giving dinner on Saturday night with entertainment by Durban\u2019s favourite funny-man, Aaron McIlroy. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Mercury Million is so popular that it is sold out |almost immediately, with a long waiting list of hopeful players,\u201d said Sneedon. <\/p>\n
Back this year to defend his Mercury Million title is John Allers, while Shirley Govender will be playing to defend her 2011 title. <\/p>\n
19th hole <\/p>\n
\u201cWith only eight women in the line-up, she\u2019s got a really good chance,\u201d laughed Sneedon. <\/p>\n
And, of course, another reason The Mercury Million is so popular (although it\u2019s not officially a draw card) is because the Champagne Sports clubhouse has been rated in the top five of 19th holes in South Africa. <\/p>\n
And any golfer will tell you how the 19th hole is often the hardest to beat. <\/p>\n
* The full results of the 2012 Mercury Million will be published in The Mercury on Monday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" INLSA Warren Yunnie in full strike at last years Mercury Million Golf Tournament at the Champagne Sports Resort in the Drakensberg. It\u2019s all systems go for |the sold-out 2012 Mercury Million Golf Tournament, which tees off at the Champagne Sports Resort tomorrow morning. Come rain or shine, 120 players will take to the picturesque, top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-16089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}