Steve Palmer's MyGolfLife Open final-round preview, best bets, free golf tips

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Adri Arnaus to win the MyGolfLife Open
3pts 4-1 general

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The Players Championship is being severely troubled by poor weather in Florida, but the MyGolf Life Open DP World Tour event has enjoyed sunshine and calm skies in South Africa, with the leaders teeing off at 9.01am UK and Ireland time on Sunday.

Temperatures of around 30 Celsius and hardly any wind is forecast for Pecanwood Golf and Country Club's final round - and local man Hennie Du Plessis is looking to turn a two-shot advantage into a maiden DP World Tour title.

Du Plessis, 110-1 ante-post, is a 9-4 chance to make his DP World Tour breakthrough at Pecanwood. The 25-year-old had been in solid but unspectacular form in the build-up to the event, ranking 223rd in the world.

Leaderboard
-19 Hennie Du Plessis
-17 Adri Arnaus, Pablo Larrazabal, Richard Sterne, Nacho Elvira
-15 Jbe Kruger, Julien Brun, Jordan Smith, Darren Fichardt, Ross Fisher
-14 Romain Langasque, Ewen Ferguson, Ashun Wu, Marcus Armitage, Tristen Strydom

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9-4 H Du Plessis, 4 A Arnaus, 6 P Larrazabal, 8 N Elvira, 18 J Smith, R Sterne, 25 J Brun, R Fisher, 40 K Kruger, 50 M Armitage, 66 bar

Final-round preview

Hennie Du Plessis has upstaged the more established names at Pecanwood this week and bookmakers will be hoping he hangs on. The leader has had regressive 2022 form figures of 8-19-29-42 and was two over par for last weekend in the Kenya Open.

Scoring has been low all week at Pecanwood and Du Plessis will be fully aware that he needs another excellent round to finish this job. A quartet are tied for second place, while anyone within five shots will feel they are still in with a shout.

Marcus Armitage is the only realistic title hope of Racing Post Sport's pre-tournament selections - the Bullet may have a Sunday sizzler in him to threaten from a share of 11th place - but the best value option at this stage is probably Adri Arnaus.

Du Plessis, Pablo Larrazabal and Nacho Elvira made hard work of the closing holes in round three, while Arnaus covered the back nine in five under par to propel himself into the thick of things.

A close-season wrist problem meant backing Arnaus came with an element of risk at the start of this year, but he has worked hard with his physiotherapy team to get the issue under control, and has shown flashes of brilliance over the last few weeks.

Arnaus followed third place in the Saudi International with ninth in the Ras al Khaimah Classic and eighth in the Kenya Open. He almost won the Spanish Open last year and an overdue main-tour breakthrough could be coming at Pecanwood.

Arnaus has slowly but surely got to grips with Pecanwood on his first visit, carding rounds of 70, 65 and 64. With his tail up, this aggressive slugger can be fancied to kick for the line. Armitage, Julien Brun, Romain Langasque, Brandon Stone and George Coetzee may come from deep to threaten, but Arnaus has a useful buffer on all of them.

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