Ryan Fox is happy with his form as he looks ahead to a showdown with Rory McIlroy in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai next week.
Fox would have leapfrogged McIlroy at the top of the DP World Tour Rankings in Partnership with Rolex with a win at the Nedbank Golf Challenge but came up just short, finishing a shot behind Tommy Fleetwood after a bogey at the last.
It was Fox's only dropped shot of the day after a four-under-par 68 took him to a ten-under total at the Gary Player Country Club.
Fox said: "I played great and didn't miss a shot until 18. I'd liked to have played it better and made Tommy work a little bit harder but it's an incredibly tough golf course to play down the stretch.
"I felt like I played some really good shots and gave myself plenty of chances.
"Three of us were thereabouts with a few holes to play (Shubhankar Sharma was also in contention) and Tommy was the one that held it together. Fair play to him.
"I'm still really happy. I don't think I've finished inside the top 50 here in three starts so if had given me second and closing the gap by a decent amount on Rory at the start of the week, I would have taken it."
Looking ahead to Dubai, where he will tee it up aiming to make up 128 points on four-time major winner McIlroy, Fox added: "I've still got some work to do. He's the number one player in the world for a reason but I'll just try to do the same thing - go out and beat the golf course then see what happens. I'm looking forward to it."
