While he was winning this curtain raiser to the Nedbank Challenge which tees off today (Thursday) with a six-birdie, four-under-par 68, overnight leader Williams struggled after two solid rounds and only managed to put together two birdies as against four bogeys to shoot a final round 74 that dropped him back into a third-place tie with Botes.

If Van Aswegen was able to post a 12-under-par 204 winning total and take away a first prize of R87,175, it was because he made the best of the slow greens in the third and final round at Lost City

Said an elated van Aswegen, "I feel great with my second win this year and I am absolutely happy as I never thought it would end this way at the start of my final round. I just went out to play without noticing what everyone else was doing.

"I was quite surprised that 12-under was a winning target, but I went out there today and made a few good putts."

Seasoned campaigner Curlewis found himself topping the leaderboard for a while, after carding four birdies and three bogeys on what was the hottest of the three days at this North West Province of South Africa.

Botes also made a charge and headed the scoreboard after an eagle on the 545-meter 11th, but a double-bogey on the 16th cost the 35-year-old the lead and a possible playoff.

Bradford Vaughn (65) turned on 35, but a late charge proved too-little-too-late. He got impressive birdies on the 15th, 16th and 17th, topped with an eagle on the 18th to tie for fifth with George Coetzee (67) and Warren Abery (68).

With this win Van Aswegen has moved from 45th to 34th on the Order of Merit, his first win this season having come at the Vodacom Origins in Pretoria.

THIRD AND FINAL ROUND SCORES
(Par 72)

204 - Tyrone van Aswegen 65 71 68

205 - Andrew Curlewis 67 68 70

206 - Desvonde Botes 69 69 68, Chris Williams 67 65 74

207 - Bradford Vaughan 69 73 65, George Coetzee 65 75 67, Warren Abery 71 68 68

208 - Tyrone Ferreira 69 67 72, Jake Roos 67 67 74

209 - David Hewan 69 73 67, Titch Moore 72 68 69, Jaco Van Zyl 73 65 71, Jean Hugo 68 66 75

210 - Neil Schietekat 71 72 67, Johan Etsebeth 71 71 68

211 - Darren Fichardt 72 67 72, Louis Moolman 67 71 73, Mark Murless 67 68 76

212 - Lindani Ndwandwe 73 71 68, Gerlou Roux 71 72 69, Alan Michell 67 75 70, Marc Cayeux (ZIM) 70 72 70, Grant Muller 69 73 70, Dean Lambert 68 72 72, Ross Wellington 70 70 72

213 - Keith Horne 72 70 71, Trevor Fisher Jnr 72 70 71, TC Charamba (ZIM) 71 71 71, Dion Fourie 74 67 72, Andre Cruse 67 73 73

214 - Mohamed Tayob 71 73 70, Deane Pappas 75 69 70, Jbe' Kruger 71 71 72, Hendrik Buhrmann 71 70 73, Vaughn Groenewald 72 69 73, Nemanja Savic (SER) 69 72 73

215 - Ryan Tipping 69 72 74, Oliver Bekker 71 66 78

216 - Michiel Bothma 69 75 72, Christiaan Basson 69 74 73

217 - Toto Thimba (Jnr) 71 72 74, Don Black 71 72 74

218 - Divan van den Heever 76 68 74

219 - Teboho Sefatsa 74 70 75

220 - Brett Liddle 72 70 78

224 - Grant Veenstra 72 72 80