2009 Sunshine Tour

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The 2009 Sunshine Tour was the tenth season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was relaunched in 2000, and the third since the tour switched a calendar based season in 2007. The Sunshine Tour represents the highest level of competition for male professional golfers in the region.

The tour was based predominantly in South Africa, with 26 of the 30 tournaments being held in the country. Two events were held in Swaziland, with one each in Zambia and Namibia.

The Order of Merit was won by Anders Hansen of Denmark.[1]

Schedule[]

The table below shows schedule of events for the 2009 Sunshine Tour.[2] 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. Since the tour switched to a calendar based season, this part of the tour has been split in two, with six events being held at the start of the year, and the remainder in December.

The Winter Swing ran from April to early December, starting with the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour, and closing with the Nedbank Affinity Cup.

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
11 Jan Joburg Open Gauteng €1,100,000 Denmark Anders Hansen (1) 20 EUR
18 Jan Africa Open Golf Challenge Eastern Cape 5,000,000 South Africa Retief Goosen (9) 18
25 Jan Dimension Data Pro-Am North West 1,800,000 South Africa Deane Pappas (2) 14
1 Feb Nashua Masters Eastern Cape 1,200,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (7) 14
15 Feb Vodacom Championship Gauteng 2,650,000 Denmark Anders Hansen (2) 14
22 Feb Telkom PGA Championship Gauteng 2,750,000 South Africa Jaco van Zyl (3) 14
3 Apr Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Bloemfontein 		Free State 480,000 South Africa Trevor Fisher Jnr (4) n/a
2 May KwaZulu-Natal 500,000 Brazil Adilson da Silva (5) n/a
9 May Samsung Royal Swazi Sun Open Swaziland 750,000 South Africa Jaco van Zyl (4) n/a
16 May Nashua Golf Challenge North West 500,000 Scotland Doug McGuigan (4) n/a
22 May Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Pretoria 		Gauteng 480,000 South Africa Brandon Pieters (1) n/a
7 Jun Lombard Insurance Classic Swaziland 500,000 South Africa Peter Karmis (2) n/a
25 Jun Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Fancourt 		Western Cape 480,000 South Africa Brandon Pieters (2) n/a
8 Aug Suncoast Classic KwaZulu-Natal 500,000 South Africa Louis de Jager (1) n/a
14 Aug Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Erinvale 		Western Cape 480,000 South Africa Jaco Ahlers (1) n/a
21 Aug Telkom PGA Pro-Am Gauteng 450,000 South Africa Jaco van Zyl (5) n/a
30 Aug
28 Mar[b] 		Zambia Open Zambia 800,000 South Africa Jbe' Kruger (1) n/a
5 Sep Gauteng 500,000 South Africa (1) n/a
18 Sep Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Selborne 		KwaZulu-Natal 480,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (8) n/a
3 Oct Western Cape 500,000 South Africa (1) n/a
9 Oct Vodacom Origins of Golf Final Western Cape 480,000 South Africa Brandon Pieters (3) n/a
18 Oct BMG Classic Gauteng 500,000 Canada Graham DeLaet (1) n/a
25 Oct Highveld Classic Mpumalanga 600,000 South Africa Lindani Ndwandwe (2) n/a
31 Oct Platinum Classic North West 705,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (9) n/a
15 Nov MTC Namibia PGA Championship Namibia 1,000,000 South Africa Hennie Otto (8) 14
26 Nov Coca-Cola Charity Championship Western Cape 550,000 South Africa Christiaan Basson (1) n/a
2 Dec Nedbank Affinity Cup North West 550,000 South Africa Jake Roos (2) n/a
6 Dec Nedbank Golf Challenge North West US$4,385,000 Australia Robert Allenby (n/a) 30
13 Dec Alfred Dunhill Championship Mpumalanga €1,000,000 Spain Pablo Martín (n/a) 20 EUR
20 Dec South African Open Championship Western Cape €1,000,000 Scotland Richie Ramsay (n/a) 32 EUR Flagship event
  1. ^ EUR − European Tour.
  2. ^ Postponed from its original date in March.[3][4]

Order of Merit[]

Rank Player[5] Events Prize Money (R)
1 Denmark Anders Hansen 5 4,286,038
2 South Africa Charl Schwartzel 5 2,315,188
3 South Africa Darren Fichardt 24 1,475,026
4 South Africa Jaco van Zyl 25 1,333,023
5 Scotland David Drysdale 6 1,184,733

References[]

  1. ^ Dempster, Martin (21 December 2009). "Richie Ramsay holds nerve to fend off Shiv Kapur and win maiden European Tour title". The Scotsman. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  2. ^ "2009 Sunshine Tour schedule". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  3. ^ "Zambia Open Golf Championship Postponed". . 10 March 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
  4. ^ "Zambia Open back on Sunshine Tour calendar". Sunshine Tour. 23 July 2009. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  5. ^ "2009 Final Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. 20 December 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2009.

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