The Open Champion started the 2011 season with a fine victory in the Africa Open at East London Golf Club in his native South Africa.

It wasn't all plain sailing to the finish line for Louis as Chris Wood and Manuel Quiros also finished on sixteen under par so the trio went into a sudden-death play-off where Louis holed a ten foot birdie putt to lift his first title of the year.

Making his debut in the event, Louis put together rounds of 70, 67 69 and 70 to finish on the sixteen under par winning total and he now heads the European Tour Race to Dubai.

"The whole day was a bit of a struggle," Oosthuizen said. "I didn't get anything in the hole and made that putt on 15 which helped.

"Then I made this one (in the play-off ) which was nice. I hit a terrible tee shot and then hit a full go sand-wedge to get close. Then I made the putt, it was great."

 "It's been one of those weeks where the putter was very cold, but my caddie kept me calm and said it would go in eventually. So I kept on trying and made that nice one on the last which I will remember."

"This week there was a great field here and playing with Retief and Darren was really special. If you look at the leaderboard there were just big names up there so I think it was a great tournament".

Louis now takes a week off before heading to the Middle East to play in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.