2011 Sunshine Tour

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The 2011 Sunshine Tour is the 12th season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was relaunched in 2000, and the 5th 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 is based predominantly in South Africa with other events being held in neighbouring countries, including Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Zambia and Namibia.

Schedule[]

The table below shows schedule of events for the 2011 Sunshine Tour season.[1] As usual, the tour consists of two distinct parts, commonly referred to as the "Summer Swing" and the "Winter Swing". Tournaments held during the Summer Swing generally have much higher prize funds, attract stronger fields, and are the only tournaments on the tour to carry world ranking points, with some 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 some events being held at the start of the year, and the remainder in December.

Prize funds shown do 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 won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Sunshine Tour members.

Date Tournament Location Prize fund
(R) 		Winner OWGR
points 		Other
tours[a] 		Notes
9 Jan Africa Open Eastern Cape €1,000,000 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen (6) 22 EUR
16 Jan Joburg Open Gauteng €1,300,000 South Africa Charl Schwartzel (5) 20 EUR
30 Jan Africom Zimbabwe Open Zimbabwe 1,250,000 South Africa Theunis Spangenberg (1) 14
20 Feb Dimension Data Pro-Am Western Cape 3,000,000 South Africa Hennie Otto (10) 14
27 Feb Telkom PGA Championship Gauteng 3,250,000 South Africa George Coetzee (4) 14
20 Mar MTC Namibia PGA Championship Namibia 1,200,000 South Africa J. G. Claassen (1) 14
7 May Investec Royal Swazi Open Swaziland 750,000 South Africa Justin Walters (2) 14
14 May Nashua Golf Challenge North West 500,000 Brazil Adilson da Silva (8) n/a
27 May Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Pretoria 		Gauteng 540,000 South Africa Jean Hugo (11) n/a
5 Jun Lombard Insurance Classic Swaziland 850,000 South Africa Justin Harding (2) n/a
10 Jun Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Arabella 		Western Cape 540,000 South Africa Chris Swanepoel (2) n/a
29 Jul Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Simola 		Eastern Cape 540,000 South Africa Jean Hugo (12) n/a
12 Aug Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Wild Coast Sun 		KwaZulu-Natal 540,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (11) n/a
2 Sep Vodacom Origins of Golf
at Sishen 		Northern Cape 540,000 Brazil Adilson da Silva (9) n/a
9 Sep Telkom PGA Pro-Am Gauteng 500,000 South Africa Jaco van Zyl (10) n/a
17 Sep Northern Cape Classic Northern Cape 600,000 South Africa Oliver Bekker (1) n/a New tournament
23 Sep Vodacom Origins of Golf Final Limpopo 600,000 South Africa Jean Hugo (13) n/a
8 Oct Platinum Classic North West 500,000 South Africa Hennie Otto (11) n/a
15 Oct KCM Zambia Open Zambia 1,200,000 Scotland Doug McGuigan (5) 14
22 Oct Suncoast Classic KwaZulu-Natal 500,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (12) n/a
30 Oct BMG Classic Gauteng 600,000 South Africa James Kamte (4) n/a
6 Nov Nashua Masters Eastern Cape 1,200,000 South Africa Shaun Norris (2) 14
10 Nov Nedbank Affinity Cup North West 600,000 South Africa Warren Abery (8) n/a
20 Nov Alfred Dunhill Championship Malelane €1,000,000 South Africa Garth Mulroy (3) 20 EUR
27 Nov SA Open Championship Ekurhuleni €1,000,000 South Africa Hennie Otto (12) 32 EUR Flagship event
4 Dec Nedbank Golf Challenge North West US$5,000,000 England Lee Westwood (n/a) 38
  1. ^ EUR − European Tour.

Order of Merit[]

Rank Player[2] Events Prize money (R)
1 South Africa Garth Mulroy 6 3,464,463
2 South Africa Hennie Otto 7 2,806,214
3 South Africa George Coetzee 9 1,586,587
4 South Africa Thomas Aiken 6 1,569,896
5 South Africa Jaco van Zyl 8 1,231,134

Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen were ineligible for the Order of Merit having only played in three and one tournaments, respectively, during the season. Schwartzel earned R2,211,553 and Oosthuizen earned R1,394,800 from those events.

References[]

  1. ^ "2011 Sunshine Tour schedule". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
  2. ^ "2011 Final Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. 4 December 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.

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