5 Gary Player won the event five years in a row, raising the trophy in 1965,1966,1967,1968 and 1969.
5 The number of shots Christiaan Bezuidenhout won by this time last year. In 2018 Louis Oosthuizen won by six shots – the largest winning margin since Tim Clark won in 2005 (also by six shots). Tony Johnstone won by seven shots in 1993 when he beat Ernie Els.
10 The number of countries represented on the winners list. The nine countries apart from South Africa are: England (Tommy Horton, Andy Sullivan, Graeme Storm, Chris Paisley), New Zealand (Bob Charles], United States (Charles Bolling, Fred Wadsworth), Zimbabwe (Tony Johnstone, Mark McNulty), Namibia (Trevor Dodds), Fiji (Vijay Singh), Sweden (Mathias Gronberg, Henrik Stenson), Scotland (George Fotheringham, Richie Ramsay) and Denmark (Morten Orum Madsen).…
