It’s fair to say that Zebula has one of the trickier closing par 5s of any Sunshine Tour venue, up there with Leopard Creek’s 18th in its ability to produce drama. Peter Matkovich designed a devilishly shaped narrow green guarded by water in front and a bunker behind. It invites risk-reward situations and proved the undoing of Altin van der Merwe in the SDC Open playoff when he went for the green with his second shot and came up short, handing the title to Danie van Tonder, who had played more cautiously. Was Van der Merwe still in shock after seeing DVT erase a 7-shot deficit in the last 7 holes? No 18 (527) played to an average of 4.97 compared to the 4.92 average of 18 at the Alfred Dunhill Championship. Zebula averaged 71.72 for the SDC Open, which is 1.5 shots tougher than it had played the previous three years. Another good 5 at Zebula in the closing stretch is the 500m 15th with a double fairway and it yielded 43 eagles and 255 birdies as distance off the tee paid dividends.