2010 Sunshine Tour

The 2010 Sunshine Tour was the 11th season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was relaunched in 2000, and the 4th 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.

2010 Sunshine Tour season
Duration7 January 2010 (2010-01-07) – 19 December 2010 (2010-12-19)
Number of official events28
Most wins4:
Jaco van Zyl
Order of Merit Charl Schwartzel
2009
2011

The tour is based predominantly in South Africa with other events being held in neighbouring countries, including Swaziland, Zambia and Namibia.

The Order of Merit was won by Charl Schwartzel.[1]

Schedule

The table below shows schedule of events for the 2010 Sunshine Tour.[2] As usual, the tour consisted 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. The Winter Swing ran from April to early 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 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[lower-alpha 1]
Notes
10 Jan Africa Open Eastern Cape €1,000,000 Charl Schwartzel (3) 20 EUR
17 Jan Joburg Open Gauteng €1,300,000 Charl Schwartzel (4) 22 EUR
14 Feb Dimension Data Pro-Am Western Cape 3,000,000 Darren Fichardt (10) 14
21 Feb Telkom PGA Championship Gauteng 3,000,000 Michiel Bothma (3) 14
28 Feb Vodacom Championship Gauteng 2,650,000 Hennie Otto (9) 14
16 Apr Vodacom Origins of Golf at Gardener Ross Gauteng 510,000 Jean Hugo (8) n/a
24 Apr Africom Zimbabwe Open Zimbabwe 1,200,000 Jbe' Kruger (2) 14
30 Apr Vodacom Origins of Golf at Sishen Free State 510,000 Jaco van Zyl (6) n/a
8 May Investec Royal Swazi Open Swaziland 750,000 Keith Horne (4) n/a
15 May Nashua Golf Challenge North West 500,000 Jaco van Zyl (7) n/a
6 Jun Lombard Insurance Classic Swaziland 700,000 Grant Muller (2) n/a
30 Jul Vodacom Origins of Golf at Humewood Eastern Cape 510,000 Ulrich van den Berg (6) n/a
20 Aug Vodacom Origins of Golf at Selborne KwaZulu-Natal 510,000 James Kingston (10) n/a
29 Aug Zambia Open Zambia 850,000 Adilson da Silva (6) n/a
3 Sep Telkom PGA Pro-Am Gauteng 500,000 Jaco van Zyl (8) n/a
11 Sep SAA Pro-Am Invitational Gauteng 500,000 Tyrone Ferreira (2) n/a
18 Sep Vodacom Origins of Golf at Stellenbosch Western Cape 510,000 Jean Hugo (9) n/a
25 Sep SAA Pro-Am Invitational Western Cape 500,000 Jaco van Zyl (9) n/a
2 Oct SAA Pro-Am Invitational KwaZulu-Natal 500,000 Michiel Bothma (4) n/a
15 Oct Vodacom Origins of Golf Final Western Cape 510,000 Justin Harding (1) n/a
24 Oct Suncoast Classic KwaZulu-Natal 500,000 Adilson da Silva (7) n/a
30 Oct Platinum Classic North West 705,000 Jean Hugo (10) n/a
7 Nov Nashua Masters Eastern Cape 1,200,000 Warren Abery (7) 14
14 Nov BMG Classic Gauteng 550,000 Brandon Pieters (4) n/a
18 Nov Coca-Cola Charity Championship Western Cape 550,000 Branden Grace (1) n/a
5 Dec Nedbank Golf Challenge North West US$5,000,000 Lee Westwood (n/a) 34
12 Dec Alfred Dunhill Championship Mpumalanga €1,000,000 Pablo Martín (n/a) 20 EUR
19 Dec South African Open Championship KwaZulu-Natal €1,000,000 Ernie Els (18) 32 EUR Flagship event

Order of Merit

RankPlayerEventsPrize money (R)
1 Charl Schwartzel65,097,914
2 Thomas Aiken71,959,543
3 Keith Horne121,904,950
4 Jbe' Kruger161,768,632
5 Louis Oosthuizen71,392,835

Ernie Els was ineligible for the Order of Merit having only played in two tournaments during the season. The R1,467,200 he earned from those events would have been enough for 5th place.

Source:[3]

Notes

  1. EUR − European Tour.

References

  1. "Schwartzel wins BMW for ace". Sport24. 20 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
  2. "2010 Sunshine Tour schedule". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
  3. "2010 Final Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. 19 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
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