Ernie ElsIn December, Ernie Els will be playing in the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City. This will mark his first competitive golf outing since his knee injury four months ago. The injury took place while sailing in the Mediterranean in July.

“When I called him yesterday he was playing nine holes of golf and said he felt great,” Roper said Thursday.

Els, a two-time U.S. Open champion and 2002 British Open winner from South Africa, is ranked 5th and will be joining five other players from the top ten.

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