The golf at Humewood yesterday felt so much like a British Open: the classic links with its humps and hollows; the yellow, wispy grass beyond the first cut of rough blowing in the breeze; the sea in the distance; the heather; the grandstands; and, of course, thousands of spectators lining the fairways.

And, to top it all, the standard of golf in the third round of the South African Airways Open was worthy of a Major Championship. This was mainly due to Trevor Immelman, who on his 27th birthday, and in the company of his boyhood hero Ernie Els, produced one of the great rounds of his life - a course record nine-under-par 63.
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