MJ Viljoen secured a maiden HotelPlanner Tour win alongside three made cuts to set the early pace atop the Road to Mallorca Rankings through four weeks of the season.
The South African teed it up on three occasions on home soil, getting his promotion campaign off to the perfect start with a play-off victory in the season-opening SDC Open at Zebula Golf Estate & Spa.
Needing a birdie at the 72nd hole to force a play-off with compatriot Deon Germishuys, Viljoen obliged, taking the tournament to extra holes before birdieing the first play-off hole to seal a memorable win in front of his family.
A tied 22nd finish at the following week’s CIRCA Cape Town Open coupled with another top 30 finish at Fancourt Golf Estate in the NTT DATA Pro-Am brought to you by Standard Bank, sees Viljoen top the season-long Rankings with 355 points.
Englishman Will Enefer was another to earn a breakthrough triumph across the South African swing, doing so in week two of the season in Royal Cape Golf Club, and he sits second, just seven points behind the current leader.
Similarly to Viljoen, Enefer also had to come through a play-off, and held his nerve on the first additional hole, holing an eight-foot birdie putt to make sure of a promotion-boosting win, with a tied 26th finish in the Jonsson Workwear Durban Open consolidating his place towards the summit of the Rankings.
MJ Daffue sealed a dominant four-stroke victory in the NTT DATA Pro-Am to catapult himself into third place on the Rankings with 320 points. Germishuys, who has graduated to the DP World Tour from the HotelPlanner Tour twice before, occupies fourth on 305 points following two top ten finishes in his four starts, including a second-place finish in the SDC Open and a tied sixth two weeks later at Fancourt.
American Davis Bryant earned playing privileges on Golf’s Global Tour for 2026 through Qualifying School, so will likely play across both the DP World Tour and the HotelPlanner Tour during the calendar year. After recording a career-best second-place finish on the DP World Tour last week in the Magical Kenya Open presented by absa, he earned points on the Road to Mallorca and completes the top five on 225 points.
Sweden’s Kristofer Blomstrand fired a second-round 61 in Durban last week on his way to a second-place finish, and is the current Number Six on 220 points, with Spaniard Pablo Ereno seventh on 196 points thanks to two top four finishes across his first four starts this term.
Santiago Tarrio, also from Spain, has two top ten finishes to his name too and has 192 points to sit eighth, 22-year-old Frenchman Maxence Giboudot is ninth on 168 points, and Irishman Max Kennedy, in his second full season on the HotelPlanner Tour, is nine points further back in tenth.
Zimbabwean Kieran Vincent (156 points) and South African Bryce Easton (150 points) are in 11th and 12th place respectively after the duo shared second place in the NTT DATA Pro-Am, and Englishman Nathan Kimsey is in 13th on 149 points after registering two top tens on the DP World Tour in his last three starts.
American Hunter Logan has 145 points and is 14th, with Finland’s Tapio Pulkkanen currently occupying the final promotion place in 15th on 131 points.
