2004–05 Sunshine Tour
The 2004–05 Sunshine Tour was the fifth 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 21 tournaments on the schedule. This was an increase of four from the previous year, primarily due to the addition of the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour, a series of six regional tournaments that has been held every year since. The other new tournament was the MTC Namibia PGA Championship. The tour was based predominantly in South Africa, with 17 of the 21 tournaments being held in the country. Two events were held in Swaziland, and one event each was held in Botswana and Namibia. 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 Charl Schwartzel.
Schedule[]
The table below shows schedule of events for the 2004–05 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.
Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (R) |
Winner | OWGR points |
Other tours[a] |
Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
14 Mar | Stanbic Zambia Open | Zambia | 909,400 | ![]() |
10 | CHA | ||
27 Mar | Botswana | 150,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [1] | |||
2 Apr | Eastern Cape | 125,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [2] | |||
8 May | Capital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun Open | Swaziland | 300,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [3] | ||
29 May | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Pezula |
Western Cape | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | New tournament series | [4] | |
12 Jun | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Schoeman Park |
North West | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [5] | ||
20 Jun | Royal Swazi Sun Classic | Swaziland | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [6] | ||
2 Jul | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Zimbali |
KwaZulu-Natal | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [7] | ||
23 Jul | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Sun City |
North West | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [8] | ||
19 Sep | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Arabella |
Western Cape | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [9] | ||
10 Oct | Bearing Man Highveld Classic | Mpumalanga | 150,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [10] | ||
16 Oct | Limpopo | 250,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [11] | |||
21 Oct | Vodacom Origins of Golf Final | Western Cape | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [12] | ||
30 Oct | Platinum Classic | North West | 300,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [13] | ||
6 Nov | MTC Namibia PGA Championship | Namibia | 225,000 | ![]() |
n/a | New tournament | [14] | |
13 Nov | Gauteng | 125,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [15] | |||
12 Dec | Dunhill Championship | Mpumalanga | 2,800,000 | ![]() |
18 | EUR | [16] | |
23 Jan | South African Airways Open | KwaZulu-Natal | 2,300,000 | ![]() |
32 | EUR | Flagship event | [17] |
30 Jan | Dimension Data Pro-Am | North West | 550,000 | ![]() |
12 | [18] | ||
6 Feb | Nashua Masters | Eastern Cape | 500,000 | ![]() |
12 | [19] | ||
20 Feb | Telkom PGA Championship | Gauteng | 1,000,000 | ![]() |
12 | [20] | ||
27 Feb | Vodacom Tour Championship | Gauteng | 1,000,000 | ![]() |
12 | Tour Championship | [21] |
- ^ CHA − Challenge Tour; EUR − European Tour.
Order of Merit[]
Rank | Player[22] | Events | Prize money (R) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
7 | 1,635,850 |
2 | ![]() |
5 | 732,963 |
3 | ![]() |
21 | 704,837 |
4 | ![]() |
13 | 490,268 |
5 | ![]() |
9 | 430,676 |
References[]
- ^ FNB Botswana Open results
- ^ Parmalat Classic results
- ^ Capital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun Open results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Pezula results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Schoeman Park results
- ^ Royal Swazi Sun Classic results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Zimbali results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Sun City results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Arabella results
- ^ Bearingman Highveld Classic results
- ^ Limpopo Eskom Classic results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Championship results
- ^ Platinum Classic results
- ^ MTC Namibian PGA Championship results
- ^ Seekers Travel Pro-Am results
- ^ Dunhill Championship results
- ^ South African Airways Open results
- ^ Dimension Data Pro-Am results
- ^ Nashua Masters results
- ^ Telkom PGA Championship results
- ^ Vodacom Tour Championship results
- ^ "2004/2005 Final Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. 27 February 2005. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
External links[]
- Sunshine Tour
- 2004 in golf
- 2005 in golf