St. Andrews, Scotland:
After winning the British Open Louis Oosthuizen came second on Monday only to political icon Nelson Mandela on the front pages of South African newspapers.
Beeld, Business Day and The Citizen used the golfer celebrating his shock victory as the main picture while The Star also carried a photograph of the fourth South African to lift the Claret Jug.
Mandela, who in 1994 became the first democratically elected president of the African powerhouse, turned 92 Sunday and tributes to him dominated all forms of domestic media.
But the back page of the dailies belonged to Oosthuizen, a 200-1 outsider when the 'Major' began last Thursday at the famed Old Course in the Scottish town of St Andrews.
'King Louis VII' screamed the all-capitals headline across the main sport page of The Star with the seven referring to the winning margin over second placed Lee Westwood from England.
Senior golf writer Grant Winter took a journey down memory lane to 2002 when then teenager Oosthuizen from the coastal town of Mossel Bay in the Western Cape turned professional.
"Watching Louis, who hits the ball so far and so straight off such a good golf swing, you just knew it was only a matter of time before he would crack it big in the game - and now it has happened.
"The Old Course greens are full of mysterious little slopes and indentations and the experts say you can spend a lifetime trying to master them. Well, our man mastered them all four days at St Andrews.
"His performance in the British Open was simply amazing. I think hundreds of thousands of golf fans back home felt more nervous than him as they tuned into the final round on television," wrote Winter.
"Louis you beauty!" was the large main headline in The Times, "Stunning Open victory for SA outsider" said Business Day, and "All hail King Louis" was The Citizen offering.
"Boerseun buit Claret Jug" (Afrikaans boy captures Claret Jug) was the headline across the top of the Beeld back page while the Sowetan ran with "Oosthuizen wins Open Champs".
Oosthuizen was following in the footsteps of a famous South African trio -- the late Bobby Locke, Gary Player and Ernie Els -- and has also triumphed on the domestic, European and American circuits.
Beeld, Business Day and The Citizen used the golfer celebrating his shock victory as the main picture while The Star also carried a photograph of the fourth South African to lift the Claret Jug.
Mandela, who in 1994 became the first democratically elected president of the African powerhouse, turned 92 Sunday and tributes to him dominated all forms of domestic media.
But the back page of the dailies belonged to Oosthuizen, a 200-1 outsider when the 'Major' began last Thursday at the famed Old Course in the Scottish town of St Andrews.
'King Louis VII' screamed the all-capitals headline across the main sport page of The Star with the seven referring to the winning margin over second placed Lee Westwood from England.
Senior golf writer Grant Winter took a journey down memory lane to 2002 when then teenager Oosthuizen from the coastal town of Mossel Bay in the Western Cape turned professional.
"Watching Louis, who hits the ball so far and so straight off such a good golf swing, you just knew it was only a matter of time before he would crack it big in the game - and now it has happened.
"The Old Course greens are full of mysterious little slopes and indentations and the experts say you can spend a lifetime trying to master them. Well, our man mastered them all four days at St Andrews.
"His performance in the British Open was simply amazing. I think hundreds of thousands of golf fans back home felt more nervous than him as they tuned into the final round on television," wrote Winter.
"Louis you beauty!" was the large main headline in The Times, "Stunning Open victory for SA outsider" said Business Day, and "All hail King Louis" was The Citizen offering.
"Boerseun buit Claret Jug" (Afrikaans boy captures Claret Jug) was the headline across the top of the Beeld back page while the Sowetan ran with "Oosthuizen wins Open Champs".
Oosthuizen was following in the footsteps of a famous South African trio -- the late Bobby Locke, Gary Player and Ernie Els -- and has also triumphed on the domestic, European and American circuits.
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