This excellent play helped him qualify for South Africa's 1969 World Cup team.
In February, he won the 1969 General Motors Open at the Wedgewood Golf Course in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
He held the 36-hole lead at the Rhodesian Masters before shooting a "disastrous" third round 75 (+4) and ultimately finishing one behind, this time losing to Inggs.
Henning had a chance to win outright but hit his drive in the woods on the last hole and would make bogey.
[5] In August, he finished runner-up to Italy's Roberto Bernardini at Munich's Agfa-Gevaert Tournament, one stroke behind.