2021–22 Sunshine Tour
The 2021–22 Sunshine Tour is the 22nd season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa-based Sunshine Tour was relaunched in 2000. The Sunshine Tour represents the highest level of competition for male professional golfers in the region.
The tour is based predominantly in South Africa with other events being held in Eswatini, Zambia, Mauritius and Kenya.
Schedule
The table below shows the schedule of events for the 2021–22 Sunshine Tour season.[1]
Prize funds shown do not count directly towards the Order of Merit. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of official money Sunshine Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Sunshine Tour members.
| Date (R3/4) |
Tournament | Location | Prize fund (R) |
Winner | OWGR points |
Other tours[lower-alpha 1] |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Mar |
Kit Kat Group Pro-Am | Johannesburg, Gauteng | 1,000,000 |  Rhys Enoch (2) |
8 | ||
| 14 Mar | Players Championship | Dainfern, Gauteng | 1,000,000 |  Jaco Prinsloo (4) |
14 | ||
| 21 Mar | Gauteng Championship | Benoni, Gauteng | 1,000,000 | Jbe' Kruger (5) |
14 | ||
| 28 Mar | Serengeti Pro-Am Invitational | Serengeti, Gauteng | 1,500,000 | Jaco Prinsloo (5) |
14 | ||
| The Tour Championship | Kempton Park, Gauteng | – | Removed[lower-alpha 3] | – | Tour Championship | ||
| Zanaco Masters | Zambia | – | Removed[lower-alpha 3] | – | |||
| 25 Apr |
Limpopo Championship | Modimolle, Limpopo | 3,000,000 | Brandon Stone (4) |
13 | CHA | |
| 2 May |
Bain's Whisky Cape Town Open | Cape Town, Western Cape | 3,000,000 | J. C. Ritchie (8) |
13 | CHA | |
| 9 May |
Dimension Data Pro-Am | George, Western Cape | 6,000,000 | Wilco Nienaber (1) |
13 | CHA | |
| 4 Jun | SunBet Challenge – Sun City | Sun City, North West | 1,000,000 | Alex Haindl (3) |
7 | ||
| 6 Aug | Vodacom Origins of Golf at De Zalze |
Western Cape | 1,000,000 | George Coetzee (12) |
7 | ||
| FNB Eswatini Nkonyeni Challenge | Eswatini | – | Removed[lower-alpha 3] | – | |||
| 20 Aug | SunBet Challenge – Times Square Casino | Pretoria, Gauteng | 1,000,000 | Estiaan Conradie (1) |
4 | ||
| 28 Aug | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Sishen |
Gauteng | 1,000,000 | Alex Haindl (4) |
4 | ||
| King's Cup | Eswatini | – | Removed[lower-alpha 3] | – | |||
| 10 Sep | Sunshine Tour Invitational | Gauteng | 1,000,000 | Jacques Kruyswijk (2) |
4 | ||
| Zanaco Masters | Zambia | – | Removed[lower-alpha 3] | – | |||
| 18 Sep | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Mount Edgecombe |
KwaZulu-Natal | 1,000,000 | Louis Albertse (1) |
4 | ||
| Karen Masters | Kenya | – | Removed[lower-alpha 3] | – | |||
| 2 Oct | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Humewood |
Eastern Cape | 1,000,000 | Daniel Greene (1) |
4 | ||
| SunBet Challenge – Wild Coast Sun | Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal | – | Cancelled[lower-alpha 4] | – | |||
| 16 Oct | Blue Label Challenge | Sun City, North West | 1,500,000 | Lyle Rowe (3) |
14 | ||
| 24 Oct | Blair Atholl Championship | Gauteng | 1,250,000 | Luke Brown (1) |
14 | ||
| 7 Nov | PGA Championship | Eastern Cape | 1,200,000 | Dean Burmester (8) |
14 | ||
| Nedbank Golf Challenge | Sun City, North West | – | Cancelled | – | EUR | ||
| 27 Nov | Joburg Open | Johannesburg, Gauteng | 17,500,000 | Thriston Lawrence (2) |
19 | EUR | |
| 5 Dec | SA Open Championship | Sun City, North West | US$500,000[lower-alpha 5] | Daniel van Tonder (8) |
32 | Flagship event | |
| 12 Dec | Alfred Dunhill Championship | Malelane, Mpumalanga | – | Cancelled | – | EUR |
- CHA − Challenge Tour; EUR − European Tour.
- Originally postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Removed from the schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Cancelled due to rain.
- Reduced from US$1,500,000 after losing European Tour co-sanctioning as a result of COVID-19 related travel restrictions.
References
- "Sunshine Tour schedule". Sunshine Tour. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
External links
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