2005–06 Sunshine Tour

The 2005–06 Sunshine Tour was the sixth 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.

As in the previous year, there were 21 tournaments on the schedule. The Royal Swazi Sun Classic was last held in 2004, and the Telkom PGA Pro-Am was added in 2005. The tour was based predominantly in South Africa, with 18 of the 21 tournaments being held in the country. One event each was held in Botswana, Swaziland and Namibia. Two tournaments, the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the South African Airways Open were co-sanctioned by the European Tour.

The Order of Merit was won for the second straight time by Charl Schwartzel.

Schedule[]

The table below shows schedule of events for the 2005–06 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.
19 Mar		Botswana	150,000	Nico van Rensburg (6)	n/a			[1]
9 Apr		Eastern Cape	200,000	Ulrich van den Berg (4)	n/a			[2]
7 May	Capital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun Open	Swaziland	400,000	Hendrik Buhrmann (8)	n/a			[3]
13 May	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Pretoria	Gauteng	200,000	Desvonde Botes (10)	n/a			[4]
27 May	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Pezula	Western Cape	200,000	Desvonde Botes (11)	n/a			[5]
1 Jul	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Wild Coast Sun	Eastern Cape	200,000	(1)	n/a			[6]
26 Aug	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Bloemfontein	Free State	200,000	Nic Henning (4)	n/a			[7]
2 Sep	Telkom PGA Pro-Am	Gauteng	150,000	Thomas Aiken (4)	n/a		New tournament	[8]
9 Sep	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Erinvale	Western Cape	200,000	Hennie Otto (6)	n/a			[9]
1 Oct		Gauteng]	150,000	Anton Haig (1)	n/a			[10]
9 Oct	Bearing Man Highveld Classic	Mpumalanga	200,000	Bradford Vaughan (6)	n/a			[11]
15 Oct	MTC Namibia PGA Championship	Namibia	250,000	Thomas Aiken (5)	n/a			[12]
21 Oct	Vodacom Origins of Golf Final	Western Cape	200,000	(1)	n/a			[13]
29 Oct	Platinum Classic	North West	300,000	Jaco van Zyl (1)	n/a			[14]
12 Nov	HSBC Champions	China	US$5,000,000	David Howell (n/a)	48	ANZ, ASA, EUR
20 Nov		Limpopo	500,000	Bradford Vaughan (7)	18			[15]
11 Dec	Dunhill Championship	Mpumalanga	€1,000,000	Ernie Els (16)	20	EUR		[16]
18 Dec	South African Airways Open	Western Cape	€1,000,000	Retief Goosen (8)	32	EUR	Flagship event	[17]
29 Jan	Dimension Data Pro-Am	North West	500,000	(2)	12			[18]
5 Feb	Nashua Masters	Eastern Cape	500,000	Warren Abery (4)	12			[19]
19 Feb	Telkom PGA Championship	Gauteng	1,000,000	Grégory Bourdy (1)	12			[20]
26 Feb	Vodacom Tour Championship	Gauteng	1,250,000	Charl Schwartzel (2)	12		Tour Championship	[21]

Order of Merit[]

Rank	Player[22]	Events	Prize money (R)
1	Charl Schwartzel	6	1,207,460
2	Grégory Bourdy	6	936,394
3	Louis Oosthuizen	4	842,092
4	Thomas Aiken	20	779,566
5	Darren Fichardt	7	763,324

References[]

External links[]

• Official website