2006–07 Sunshine Tour

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The 2006–07 Sunshine Tour was the seventh season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was rebranded in 2000. It marked the last year of a seasonal calendar. The Sunshine Tour represents the highest level of competition for male professional golfers in the region.

In 2005–06 there had been 21 tournaments. Of those, two tournaments were last held in 2005, but there were eight tournaments added for the 2006–07 schedule bringing the total up to 27. The tour was based predominantly in South Africa, with 24 of the 27 tournaments being held in the country. One event each was held in Swaziland, Zambia and Namibia. The new tournaments were the Stanbic Zambia Open, which returned after a hiatus in 2005, two South African Airways Pro-Am Invitational tournaments, the Sun Coast Classic, the Eskom Power Cup, the Coca-Cola Charity Championship, the first sanctioned year of the Nedbank Golf Challenge, and the Joburg Open which was co-sanctioned by the European Tour.

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

Schedule[]

The table below shows schedule of events for the 2006–07 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, with three events being co-sanctioned with the European Tour.

With the switch to a calendar-based schedule in 2007, the last five events of the 2006–07 season were also considered part of the 2007 schedule, and counted towards the final standings of both.

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 Stanbic Zambia Open Zambia 750,000 South Africa (2) n/a [1]
21 Apr Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Arabella
Western Cape 400,000 South Africa Jean Hugo (3) n/a [2]
29 Apr Western Cape 350,000 South Africa Jean Hugo (4) n/a New tournament [3]
6 May Samsung Royal Swazi Sun Open Swaziland 550,000 South Africa Thomas Aiken (6) n/a [4]
13 May Suncoast Classic KwaZulu-Natal 350,000 South Africa (1) n/a New tournament [5]
20 May Gauteng 400,000 Zimbabwe Tongoona Charamba (1) n/a New tournament [6]
26 May Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Pretoria
Gauteng 400,000 South Africa Vaughn Groenewald (1) n/a [7]
30 Jun Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Selborne
KwaZulu-Natal 400,000 South Africa (1) n/a [8]
18 Aug Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Bloemfontein
Free State 400,000 South Africa (2) n/a [9]
25 Aug Telkom PGA Pro-Am Gauteng 350,000 Scotland Doug McGuigan (2) n/a [10]
2 Sep North West 350,000 South Africa Trevor Fisher Jnr (2) n/a New tournament [11]
15 Sep Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Pezula
Western Cape 400,000 South Africa (4) n/a [12]
30 Sep Gauteng 350,000 South Africa Desvonde Botes (12) n/a [13]
6 Oct Vodacom Origins of Golf Final Western Cape 400,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (5) n/a [14]
15 Oct Bearing Man Highveld Classic Mpumalanga 400,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (6) n/a [15]
21 Oct MTC Namibia PGA Championship Namibia 650,000 South Africa Anton Haig (2) n/a [16]
28 Oct Platinum Classic North West 600,000 South Africa Vaughn Groenewald (2) n/a [17]
12 Nov HSBC Champions China US$5,000,000 South Korea Yang Yong-eun (n/a) 52 ANZ, ASA, EUR
19 Nov Limpopo 1,000,000 South Africa Bradford Vaughan (8) 12 [18]
23 Nov Coca-Cola Charity Championship Western Cape 500,000 South Africa (1) n/a New tournament [19]
3 Dec Nedbank Golf Challenge North West US$4,385,000 United States Jim Furyk (n/a) 38 New to Sunshine Tour [20]
10 Dec Alfred Dunhill Championship Mpumalanga €1,000,000 Spain Álvaro Quirós (n/a) 18 EUR [21]
17 Dec South African Airways Open Eastern Cape €1,000,000 South Africa Ernie Els (17) 32 EUR Flagship event [22]
14 Jan Joburg Open Gauteng €1,000,000 Argentina Ariel Cañete (n/a) 20 EUR New tournament [23]
28 Jan Dimension Data Pro-Am North West 1,600,000 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen (2) 14 [24]
4 Feb Nashua Masters Eastern Cape 1,200,000 South Africa Jean Hugo (5) 14 [25]
18 Feb Vodacom Championship Gauteng 2,200,000 South Africa Richard Sterne (2) 14 [26]
25 Feb Telkom PGA Championship Gauteng 2,250,000 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen (3) 14 [27]
  1. ^ ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia; ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.

Order of Merit[]

Rank Player[28] Events Prize money (R)
1 South Africa Charl Schwartzel 7 1,585,117
2 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 8 1,314,739
3 South Africa Hennie Otto 18 1,274,340
4 South Africa Andrew McLardy 6 1,239,926
5 South Africa Darren Fichardt 13 1,160,182

Ernie Els was the highest money winner (with R1,734,659.33) but did not qualify for the Order of Merit, having only played in three events. Álvaro Quirós was second in the money list (with R1,497,033.00) thanks to his victory in the Alfred Dunhill Championship, but as a non-tour member and having not entered sufficient events, he was also ineligible for the Order of Merit.

References[]

  1. ^ Stanbic Zambia Open results
  2. ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Arabella results
  3. ^ South African Airways Pro-Am Invitational, Cape Town results
  4. ^ Samsung Royal Swazi Sun Open results
  5. ^ Sun Coast Classic results
  6. ^ South African Airways Pro-Am Invitational, Johannesburg results
  7. ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Pretoria CC results
  8. ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour Kwazulu Natal results
  9. ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Bloemfontein GC results
  10. ^ Telkom PGA Pro-Am results
  11. ^ Eskom Power Cup results
  12. ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Pezula results
  13. ^ Seekers Travel Pro-Am results
  14. ^ Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour Final results
  15. ^ Bearing Man Highveld Classic results
  16. ^ MTC Namibia PGA Championship results
  17. ^ Platinum Classic results
  18. ^ Limpopo Classic results
  19. ^ Coca-Cola Charity Championship results
  20. ^ Nedbank Golf Challenge results
  21. ^ Alfred Dunhill Championship results
  22. ^ SAA Open results
  23. ^ Joburg Open results
  24. ^ Dimension Data Pro-Am results
  25. ^ Nashua Masters results
  26. ^ Vodacom Championship results
  27. ^ Telkom PGA Championship results
  28. ^ "2006/2007 Final Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2014-07-17.

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