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	(1)	10	CHA
27 Mar		Botswana	150,000	(1)	n/a			[1]
2 Apr		Eastern Cape	125,000	Justin Walters (1)	n/a			[2]
8 May	Capital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun Open	Swaziland	300,000	Nic Henning (3)	n/a			[3]
29 May	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Pezula	Western Cape	200,000	(1)	n/a		New tournament series	[4]
12 Jun	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Schoeman Park	North West	200,000	Steve van Vuuren (6)	n/a			[5]
20 Jun	Royal Swazi Sun Classic	Swaziland	200,000	Bradford Vaughan (4)	n/a			[6]
2 Jul	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Zimbali	KwaZulu-Natal	200,000	Thomas Aiken (1)	n/a			[7]
23 Jul	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Sun City	North West	200,000	Thomas Aiken (2)	n/a			[8]
19 Sep	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Arabella	Western Cape	200,000	Louis Oosthuizen (1)	n/a			[9]
10 Oct	Bearing Man Highveld Classic	Mpumalanga	150,000	(1)	n/a			[10]
16 Oct		Limpopo	250,000	Bradford Vaughan (5)	n/a			[11]
21 Oct	Vodacom Origins of Golf Final	Western Cape	200,000	Thomas Aiken (3)	n/a			[12]
30 Oct	Platinum Classic	North West	300,000	Titch Moore (5)	n/a			[13]
6 Nov	MTC Namibia PGA Championship	Namibia	225,000	(2)	n/a		New tournament	[14]
13 Nov		Gauteng	125,000	Ulrich van den Berg (3)	n/a			[15]
12 Dec	Dunhill Championship	Mpumalanga	2,800,000	Charl Schwartzel (1)	18	EUR		[16]
23 Jan	South African Airways Open	KwaZulu-Natal	2,300,000	Tim Clark (2)	32	EUR	Flagship event	[17]
30 Jan	Dimension Data Pro-Am	North West	550,000	Simon Wakefield (1)	12			[18]
6 Feb	Nashua Masters	Eastern Cape	500,000	Richard Sterne (1)	12			[19]
20 Feb	Telkom PGA Championship	Gauteng	1,000,000	Warren Abery (3)	12			[20]
27 Feb	Vodacom Tour Championship	Gauteng	1,000,000	Marc Cayeux (7)	12		Tour Championship	[21]

Order of Merit[]

Rank	Player[22]	Events	Prize money (R)
1	Charl Schwartzel	7	1,635,850
2		5	732,963
3	Warren Abery	21	704,837
4	Titch Moore	13	490,268
5	Marc Cayeux	9	430,676

References[]

External links[]

• Official website