Some of SA’s leading players will have to choose between representing the Proteas throughout the upcoming series against Bangladesh, or joining their Indian Premier League sides.
Bowen had sold the family home to offset costs and wife Loren has been unemployed since July. On an essential skills work visa, he said he was supporting his family in South Africa and himself. “They are taking enormous strain. They are heartbroken.” Immigration New Zealand (INZ) said 49,984 people hold an essential skills visa – 890 of them are education professionals. But the visas of about 145 education professionals will expire on or before December 31, 2021. “An individual who wants to remain in New Zealand beyond the date of expiry of their current visa needs to apply for a new visa,” a spokeswoman said.
Bezuidenhout will make his second Masters appearance this year after a stellar debut in 2020.
His T38 at Augusta was the beginning of a remarkable run on the European Tour, which saw Bezuidenhout clinch back-to-back titles by winning the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the SA Open Championship.
Bezuidenhout has since been plying his trade sporadically on the PGA and European Tour with a solo seventh finish at last month s Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Dylan Frittelli
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Age - 30
Best Masters - T5 (2020)
Frittelli was the best-placed South African at Augusta National at last year s November Masters as he finished tied for fifth.