Fifers set up all-Scots tie in Cape Town
Soutar, from Leven, the 2011 Scottish Champion of Champions, progressed with an impressive 6 and 4 victory over Morten Bredahl while Crichton, the on-form Aberdour player, joined him in the next round with a 3 and 2 success over another South African, Cedric Rooi.
Also through to the last 16 are Kirkhill’s Paul Shields, who lost to Michael Stewart in an all-Scottish final 12 months ago, and Danny Kay, the Dunbar player who reached the final of last season’s Scottish Amateur.
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Hide AdShields dug deep to beat South African Justin Turner at the fourth extra hole while Kay also had to hold his nerve in securing a last-green victory over Martin Rohwer.
Balmore’s Fraser McKenna also took his match the full distance before bowing out to Jean-Paul Strydom, while James White, the other of the Scots to qualify for the match-play phase, went down 3 and 2 to CJ Du Plessis.