Kiwi golfer Sam Jones continues to climb in early tournaments on Europe's second-tier tour.
Jones finished tied for third at this week's NTT Data Pro Am in George, South Africa, following a T4 finish the previous week, to move up two places to fourth in the HotelPlanner Tour, formerly Challenge Tour, season-long Road to Mallorca rankings.
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The Taranaki left-hander posted four-under rounds on day one and three, sandwiching a bogey-free seven-under 65 in the second round, before a three-under 69 to close the tournament at the Fancourt Golf Estate.
With just five bogeys over 72 holes, Jones finished at 18-under, in a three-way share of third, still nine strokes behind the winner, South African Wilco Nienaber.
The 28-year-old will return home to play the New Zealand Open and NZ PGA Championship as the HP Tour takes a break until two tournaments in India next month.
On the LIV Golf Tour, Ben Campbell finished tied for 23rd and Danny Lee in a share of 37th at the LIV Adelaide tournament.
Campbell posted rounds of one-over 72, two-under 69 and one-under 70 to finish at two-under, 11 shots adrift of the winner, Chilean Joquin Niemann, who held off Torque GC teammate Carlos Ortiz and Abraham Ancer by three strokes.
Lee managed rounds of two-under 69 and a pair of two-over 73s to end at two-over. His Iron Heads GC team finished 10th, 26 shots off the pace, while Campbell's RangeGoats team was 11th, another stroke back.
Meanwhile, on the Ladies European Tour, Kiwi Momoka Kobori finished tied for 27th at the Saudi Ladies International.
Kobori, with younger brother and fellow pro Kazuma Kobori on her bag, carded rounds of one-over 73, three-under 69 and two-under 70 to close at four-under, 12 strokes behind the winner, Thai Jeeno Thitikul.
Together with German Esther Henseleit, Moroccan Ines Laklalech and Spaniard Fatima Fernandez Cano, Kobori finished tied for third in the teams event at 31-under, three shots off the pace.