The Leaderboard looks as follows for the Nedbank Golf Challange, held at Sun City.

Robert Allenby won the Nedbank Golf Challenge after winning a sudden-death playoff against Henrik Stenson on Sunday.

Allenby and defending champion Stenson were tied at 11-under-par after the regulation 72 holes at Sun City’s Gary Player Country Club, after both bogeyed their final hole.

Allenby and Stenson travelled back to the 18th tee in order to settle the title, but the first attempt to do so was halved in fours. Both players hit the fairway, but Stenson hit the left side of the green while Allenby missed the putting surface on the same side. Both were a similar distance from the hole, however.

Stenson made no mistake in two-putting, but Allenby left himself a little work with his chip. He then holed a steely five-footer to force a second hole of sudden death.

Both missed the 18th fairway right at the second time of asking, though Allenby’s three-wood meant he reached the fairway bunker, while Stenson’s five-wood put him behind it in the rough.

The second shots left the two players in almost exactly the same spots as on the first playoff hole. Stenson again rolled it close, but this time Allenby elected to putt from just off the green. Again the Australian left himself a four-footer below the hole, and again he rolled it in. Stenson popped his in and it was back to the tee they went.

Both hit the fairway this time, but the approach shots were entirely different. Stenson pushed it way right to the foot of a grandstand, while Allenby attacked the pin and hit it to around five feet. Stenson had to take a free drop from the stand, but still had a poor lie and a very tricky downhill chip.

Stenson really had no shot, and his decent effort rolled 30 feet past the flag. He couldn’t make the putt for par, and Allenby duly two-putted to take the title.