Willett hopes to bring back the Sun

SUN City and its powerful allure is not a place for redemption seekers.

It is inviting but its perils for those who veer off the straight and narrow are all too obvious.

Still, golf course and nearby casinos can change fortunes in a flash and it is very much with the former in mind that England's Danny Willett will tee off tomorrow, hoping to put recent troubles behind him.

After all, for him the Gary Player Country Club is a familiar, happy place.

“You walk up the ninth green and see your plaque on the walkway – it’s always nice,” the 2014 winner of the Nedbank Golf Challenge said yesterday.

He needs a similar performance starting tomorrow if he is going to leapfrog Swede Henrik Stenson in the penultimate event in the Race to Dubai.

Willett, who won this year's Masters, has struggled of late.

He finished 75th out of 78 competitors at the HSBC Champions, while a 65th-place finish at last weekend's Turkish Airlines Open confirmed the absence of form.

“For this event to fall where it does in the final series can be an absolute boost for me. I’ve been struggling recently to get things going, so it’s nice to come back to a course I know pretty well and have done well on,” he said.

Naturally, his sights will be firmly set on Stenson, the British Open champion.

“Henrik and I have had pretty similar years this year,” Willett said. “We both won a major and had good showings in World Golf Championship events.”

Marcel Siem, Ricardo Gouveia and David Drysdale will be the first out on the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City when round one begins at 7.45am tomorrow.

Players will then tee-off at 10minute intervals according to their Race to Dubai positions.