2005–06 Sunshine Tour

The 2005–06 Sunshine Tour was the sixth season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was rebranded in 2000. The Sunshine Tour represents the highest level of competition for male professional golfers in the region.

2005–06 Sunshine Tour season
Duration16 March 2005 (2005-03-16) – 26 February 2006 (2006-02-26)
Number of official events22
Most wins2:
Thomas Aiken
Desvonde Botes
Bradford Vaughan
Order of Merit Charl Schwartzel

As in the previous year, there were 21 tournaments on the schedule. The Royal Swazi Sun Classic was last held in 2004, and the Telkom PGA Pro-Am was added in 2005. The tour was based predominantly in South Africa, with 18 of the 21 tournaments being held in the country. One event each was held in Botswana, Swaziland and Namibia. Two tournaments, the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the South African Airways Open were co-sanctioned by the European Tour.

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

Schedule

The table below shows schedule of events for the 2005–06 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.

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[lower-alpha 1]
Notes Ref.
19 MarFNB Botswana OpenBotswana150,000 Nico van Rensburg (6)n/a[1]
9 AprParmalat ClassicEastern Cape200,000 Ulrich van den Berg (4)n/a[2]
7 MayCapital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun OpenSwaziland400,000 Hendrik Buhrmann (8)n/a[3]
13 MayVodacom Origins of Golf at PretoriaGauteng200,000 Desvonde Botes (10)n/a[4]
27 MayVodacom Origins of Golf at PezulaWestern Cape200,000 Desvonde Botes (11)n/a[5]
1 JulVodacom Origins of Golf at Wild Coast SunEastern Cape200,000 Dean Lambert (1)n/a[6]
26 AugVodacom Origins of Golf at BloemfonteinFree State200,000 Nic Henning (4)n/a[7]
2 SepTelkom PGA Pro-AmGauteng150,000 Thomas Aiken (4)n/aNew tournament[8]
9 SepVodacom Origins of Golf at ErinvaleWestern Cape200,000 Hennie Otto (6)n/a[9]
1 OctSeekers Travel Pro-AmGauteng]150,000 Anton Haig (1)n/a[10]
9 OctBearing Man Highveld ClassicMpumalanga200,000 Bradford Vaughan (6)n/a[11]
15 OctMTC Namibia PGA ChampionshipNamibia250,000 Thomas Aiken (5)n/a[12]
21 OctVodacom Origins of Golf FinalWestern Cape200,000 Steve Basson (1)n/a[13]
29 OctPlatinum ClassicNorth West300,000 Jaco van Zyl (1)n/a[14]
12 Nov HSBC Champions China US$5,000,000 David Howell (n/a) 48 ANZ, ASA, EUR New tournament
20 NovLimpopo ClassicLimpopo500,000 Bradford Vaughan (7)18[15]
11 DecDunhill ChampionshipMpumalanga€1,000,000 Ernie Els (16)20EUR[16]
18 DecSouth African Airways OpenWestern Cape€1,000,000 Retief Goosen (8)32EURFlagship event[17]
29 JanDimension Data Pro-AmNorth West500,000 Alan McLean (2)12[18]
5 FebNashua MastersEastern Cape500,000 Warren Abery (4)12[19]
19 FebTelkom PGA ChampionshipGauteng1,000,000 Grégory Bourdy (1)12[20]
26 FebVodacom Tour ChampionshipGauteng1,250,000 Charl Schwartzel (2)12Tour Championship[21]

Order of Merit

RankPlayerEventsPrize money (R)
1 Charl Schwartzel61,207,460
2 Grégory Bourdy6936,394
3 Louis Oosthuizen4842,092
4 Thomas Aiken20779,566
5 Darren Fichardt7763,324

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