2002–03 Sunshine Tour

The 2002–03 Sunshine Tour was the third season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was rebranded in 2000. The Sunshine Tour represents the highest level of competition for male professional golfers in the region.

There were 15 official events on the schedule. This was an decrease of eight from the previous year, and represents the fewest in the 15 seasons that Sunshine Tour has existed. There were eight tournaments from the previous season that were eliminated: the Goldfields Powerade Classic, the Bloemfontein Classic, the Randfontein Classic, the Atlantic Beach Classic, the Western Cape Classic, the Graceland Challenge, Cock of the North (Zambia), and the CABS/Old Mutual Zimbabwe Open (which resumed in 2010). The tour was based predominantly in South Africa, with 11 of the 15 official tournaments being held in the country. Two events were held in Swaziland, and one event each was held in Botswana and Zambia. Two events, the Dunhill Championship and the South African Airways Open were co-sanctioned by the European Tour.

The Order of Merit was won by Trevor Immelman.

Schedule[]

The table below shows schedule of events for the 2002–03 Sunshine Tour. As usual, the tour consisted of two distinct parts, commonly referred to as the "Summer Swing" and "Winter Swing". Tournaments held during the Summer Swing generally had much higher prize funds, attracted stronger fields, and were the only tournaments on the tour to carry world ranking points.

Prize funds shown did 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	Tournament	Location	Purse (R)	Winner	OWGR points	Other tours[a]	Notes	Ref.
24 Feb	Capital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun Open	Swaziland	275,000	Andrew McLardy (3)	12			[1]
10 Mar	Stanbic Zambia Open	Zambia	450,000	Marc Cayeux (5)	n/a	CHA		[2]
23 Mar		Botswana	200,000	Hendrik Buhrmann (6)	n/a			[3]
11 May		Limpopo	125,000	Hennie Otto (3)	n/a			[4]
19 May	Royal Swazi Sun Classic	Swaziland	100,000	James Kingston (7)	n/a			[5]
28 Sep		Gauteng	125,000	Ashley Roestoff (10)	n/a			[6]
6 Oct	Bearing Man Highveld Classic	Mpumalanga	125,000	Titch Moore (3)	n/a			[7]
3 Nov	Platinum Classic	North West	300,000	Titch Moore (4)	n/a			[8]
17 Nov	Telkom PGA Championship	Gauteng	650,000	Michiel Bothma (1)	12			[9]
24 Nov	Nashua Masters	Eastern Cape	500,000	Hennie Otto (4)	12			[10]
8 Dec	Vodacom Players Championship	Western Cape	1,000,000	Mark McNulty (33)	12			[11]
12 Jan	South African Airways Open	Western Cape	3,000,000	Trevor Immelman (2)	32	EUR	Flagship event	[12]
19 Jan	Dunhill Championship	Gauteng	2,500,000	Mark Foster (2)	18	EUR		[13]
26 Jan	Dimension Data Pro-Am	North West	1,000,000	Trevor Immelman (3)	16			[14]
2 Feb	The Tour Championship	Mpumalanga	1,200,000	Hennie Otto (5)	12		Tour Championship	[15]

Order of Merit[]

Rank	Player[16]	Events	Prize money (R)
1	Trevor Immelman	4	2,044,279
2	Mark Foster	4	1,110,935
3	Hennie Otto	10	877,118
4	Bradford Vaughan	13	854,746
5	Mark McNulty	7	580,960

References[]

External links[]

• Official website