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 | ![]() |
n/a | [1] | |||
9 Apr | Eastern Cape | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [2] | |||
7 May | Capital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun Open | Swaziland | 400,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [3] | ||
13 May | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Pretoria |
Gauteng | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [4] | ||
27 May | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Pezula |
Western Cape | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [5] | ||
1 Jul | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Wild Coast Sun |
Eastern Cape | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [6] | ||
26 Aug | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Bloemfontein |
Free State | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [7] | ||
2 Sep | Telkom PGA Pro-Am | Gauteng | 150,000 | ![]() |
n/a | New tournament | [8] | |
9 Sep | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Erinvale |
Western Cape | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [9] | ||
1 Oct | Gauteng] | 150,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [10] | |||
9 Oct | Bearing Man Highveld Classic | Mpumalanga | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [11] | ||
15 Oct | MTC Namibia PGA Championship | Namibia | 250,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [12] | ||
21 Oct | Vodacom Origins of Golf Final | Western Cape | 200,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [13] | ||
29 Oct | Platinum Classic | North West | 300,000 | ![]() |
n/a | [14] | ||
12 Nov | HSBC Champions | China | US$5,000,000 | ![]() |
48 | ANZ, ASA, EUR | ||
20 Nov | Limpopo | 500,000 | ![]() |
18 | [15] | |||
11 Dec | Dunhill Championship | Mpumalanga | €1,000,000 | ![]() |
20 | EUR | [16] | |
18 Dec | South African Airways Open | Western Cape | €1,000,000 | ![]() |
32 | EUR | Flagship event | [17] |
29 Jan | Dimension Data Pro-Am | North West | 500,000 | ![]() |
12 | [18] | ||
5 Feb | Nashua Masters | Eastern Cape | 500,000 | ![]() |
12 | [19] | ||
19 Feb | Telkom PGA Championship | Gauteng | 1,000,000 | ![]() |
12 | [20] | ||
26 Feb | Vodacom Tour Championship | Gauteng | 1,250,000 | ![]() |
12 | Tour Championship | [21] |
- ^ ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia; ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.
Order of Merit[]
Rank | Player[22] | Events | Prize money (R) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
6 | 1,207,460 |
2 | ![]() |
6 | 936,394 |
3 | ![]() |
4 | 842,092 |
4 | ![]() |
20 | 779,566 |
5 | ![]() |
7 | 763,324 |
References[]
- ^ FNB Botswana Open results
- ^ Parmalat Classic results
- ^ Capital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun Open results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Pretoria results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Pezula results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Wild Coast Sun results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Bloemfontein results
- ^ Telkom PGA Pro-Am results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Erinvale results
- ^ Seekers Travel Pro-Am results
- ^ Bearingman Highveld Classic results
- ^ MTC Namibia PGA Championship results
- ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour Championship results
- ^ Platinum Classic results
- ^ Limpopo Classic 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
- ^ "2005/2006 Final Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. 2006-02-26. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
External links[]
- Sunshine Tour
- 2005 in golf
- 2006 in golf