This time, there wasn’t a bogey on his card, and Christiaan Burke rounded off a runaway victory on Friday with a closing eight-under-par 64 to win the Bushveld Tour’s Race to Q-School Wanna Be a Champion Series #3 at State Mines Golf Club.

Four birdies on the ach of the nines took him to an incredible 22-under-par 196 for the 54-hole tournament, and it gave him a five-stroke margin over Slade Pickering. Pickering’s superb 10-under-par 62 with an eagle and eight birdies wasn’t enough to stop Burke, who led from start to finish.

Pickering turned in 29 with an eagle on the seventh and five birdies, but he needed more than his three birdies on the homeward nine if he was going to even get close to Burke.

The man who was second to Burke through the first two rounds, Robin Williams, closed with a four-under 68 to take him to 16-under-par 200, six shots off the lead. Ricky Hendler was fourth on 15-under, while Luke Trocado and Jason Froneman shared fifth on 14-under.

The win took Burke to the top of the Order of Merit for the final series of three tournaments, ahead of Drikus Joubert in second and amateur Werner Deyzel in third.

The Race To Q-School Series was made up of three separate series of events. This was the third series. Each series was made up of three tournaments and had its own Order of Merit. The top four finishers from each series will receive paid entry fees into Sunshine Tour Qualifying-School in April. Any Q-school exempt players finishing in the top four of each series will win the cash equivalent of a Q-school entry fee, that is R8,000.