The Sunshine Tour is a men’s professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its early history it was known either as the South African Tour or Sunshine Circuit; through sponsorship deals, it has also been known as the Vodacom Tour and the FNB Tour. For the 2000–01 season the tour rebranded itself as the Sunshine Tour in an attempt to broaden its appeal. A large majority of the tour events are still staged in South Africa.
The tour is one of the six leading men’s tours which before 2009 made up the membership of the International Federation of PGA Tours, but it offers much less prize money than some of the leading tours, and leading Southern African golfers traditionally prefer to play on the PGA Tour or the European Tour if they can qualify to do so, typically returning to play in Sunshine Tour events a couple of times a year.
SUN CITY, North-West (15 October) – The third round of the Blue Label Challenge at Gary Player Country Club once again showed golf’s wonderful ability to surprise us as qualifier Dylan Mostert soared to the top of the leaderboard with a four-under-par round of 68. Mostert will go into Saturday’s final round with a one-point […]
The long journey back from hip surgery finally showed signs of being over for Estiaan Conradie as he moved to the top of the leaderboard with one round to go in the SunBet Challenge hosted by Time Square Casino at the Wingate Park Country Club. Local favourite Conradie, playing his home course, added a 65 […]
The South African Open Championship will add the iconic Gary Player Country Club to its roster of celebrated golf courses that have hosted this championship as it moves to Sun City this year where it will be played from 3-6 December, with support from Nedbank and Sun International. The 110th playing of the second oldest […]
Musiwalo Nethunzwi says more professional golf tournaments should be staged at the recently-refurbished Soweto Country Club, where he won the Vusi Ngubeni Tournament presented by the Sunshine Tour and Petrus Kleinbooi on the first playoff holes against James Kamte on Thursday. Now, he leads a group of 15 players into the upcoming season of the […]
In the four Eye of Africa editions of South Africa’s PGA Championship, which was founded in 1923 as a match play tournament, three have been decided in play-offs. The tournament gets underway at 6.30am on Thursday, and defending champion Louis de Jager took the championship last season in a play-off with Trevor Fisher Jnr. He […]
He attributed his five-stroke win in the R1-million Vodacom Origins of Golf tournament at Humewood Golf Club partly to a freakish switch in wind during the final round on Saturday, but in truth Merrick Bremner had it sewn up long before that. He made three consecutive birdies from 15 to 17 to move to 19-under-par […]
Justin Harding defeated world number 34 Matthew Fitzpatrick 1-up on Wednesday to win his first World Golf Championship match in the opening day’s play of the Dell Technologies World Match Play in Austin, Texas. Harding, who spent four years at Lamar University in Texas, took advantage of Fitzpatrick’s stumble on the closing two holes to […]
Stone talks up home support ahead of Nedbank Golf Challenge When he was a youngster of five or six, Brandon Stone was among those chasing after signatures of their favourite players during the week of the Nedbank Golf Challenge hosted by Gary Player. A few years later and on his third appearance in the tournament […]
It seems a little odd to see an Italian flag on the scoreboard behind the name of Phillip Geerts after he shot a solid opening round of four-under-par 68 in the KCB Karen Masters at Karen Country Club in Kenya on Thursday. “I was actually born here in Nairobi to an Italian mother and Belgian […]
Home favourite George Coetzee has confirmed his participation in the Nedbank Golf Challenge hosted by Gary Player, the penultimate Rolex Series event on the European Tour’s Race to Dubai, from November 8-11, 2018. As the 2017-18 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit winner, Coetzee qualifies automatically for the event, in a season in which he has […]
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