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Known as the 'African major', the event attracts a top-class European Tour field to the Sun City resort.

JOHANNESBURG - The 2020 Nedbank Golf Challenge scheduled for December 3-6 in South Africa has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organisers announced Friday.

Although South Africa has seen a drop in confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities recently, it has the fifth most infections in the world with 618,286 by Thursday. "I am confident that the European Tour, Nedbank and Sun City would have done all in their power to try and make sure the Golf Challenge went ahead this year.

 

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