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5yToby Tree played his first full season on the European Tour and escaped with 11 cuts made in 20 events played.

The Englishman went 11-for-20 during his rookie campaign on the European Tour. The bright spot was a T14 at the Irish Open and a T20 at the Joburg Open, both events in the fall. The driver was his key asset along the way, finishing 47th on tour in strokes gained off-the-tee. He also rewarded weekly gamers with 0.15 eagles per round which was 31st on tour by season’s end. The 26-year-old is still searching for his big breakout win. His only fantasy value right now lies as a DFS value target in European Tour contests.

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6yToby Tree will make his second start in the AFRASIA BANK Mauritius Open at Heritage GC this week.

The Englishman might have a very apt name for a golfer (of sorts), but he has little experience at this level. He’s made 14 starts on the European Tour, landed six weekends, but only one of them has reaped better than T50. That was when he was T14 in the 2016 Tshwane Open. He does however have knowledge of this course because he missed the cut here in 2017 when carding 74-75. He made limited starts on the Challenge Tour in 2019, his best in 11 appearances was T10 on seasonal debut in Turkey. He made the cut last week at Leopard Creek but needed 81-75 at the weekend.

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7yToby Tree carved out a 5-under-par 33-33=66 in his opening round of the Tshwane Open at Pretoria CC in South Africa, currently good enough for T4 on the live leaderboard and just two strokes behind leader Alexander Bjork.

The young Englishman is making just his eighth start on the European Tour although this is his third at the Tshwane where he was T53 on debut in 2015 (second round 63) and T14 last year (Saturday 65). Tree, who plays most of his golf on the South African Sunshine Tour and was T5 in the recent Dimension Data Pro-Am, started slowly today with three pars and a bogey in his opening four holes. But over the next 10 he birdied 50% of them with red numbers at 5, 6, 9, 11, 13 and 14. Tree closed with four pars to secure his place in the top five.

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7yEngland’s Toby Tree has the chance to post victory on just his fifth European Tour start after moving into T5 at the Tshwane Open in South Africa after hanging up a 5-under-par 31-34=65 in Saturday’s third round.

The 21-year-old bogeyed the second and swallowed a double at the last but between those setbacks he played some superb golf to post 4-under 206 with 18 holes to play. Tree, who has cashed just once in his brief career at this level, birdied 4, 5 and 8 and then made a dramatic move with two eagles in four holes at Pretoria CC’s only par fives (the 9th and 12th). He added another birdie at 15 before his disappointing finish at 18 which he’s played in a combined 4-over so far this week. Tree is five shots behind leader Charl Schwartzel going into the final round.