South African Sunshine Tour

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Established
1971 (55 years old)

First Recorded Event
2023-05-04

Current Season
2026-2027

Current Round
4

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Location
South Africa

Gender
Male

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	Upcoming
07 Jun 26	Waterfall City Tournament of Champions powered by Attacq and WCMC
14 Jun 26	The Mopani Zambia Open
21 Jun 26	KCM Golf Challenge
02 Aug 26	Potential Event
07 Aug 26	SunBet Challenge Times Square Casino
15 Aug 26	Potential Event
28 Aug 26	SunBet Challenge hosted by Wild Coast Sun
11 Sep 26	SunBet Challenge hosted by Sun Sibaya
04 Oct 26	Limpopo Championship
11 Oct 26	The Fortress Invitational

	Results
22 May 26	SunBet Challenge hosted by Sun Boardwalk
17 May 26	Kit Kat Cash and Carry Pro Am
10 May 26	FBC ZIM Open
18 Apr 26	Mediclinic Invitational Final Round
17 Apr 26	Mediclinic Invitational Round 3
16 Apr 26	Mediclinic Invitational Round 2
15 Apr 26	Mediclinic Invitational Round 1
29 Mar 26	The Courier Guy Playoffs DNi Tour Championship presented by RMB
08 Mar 26	Joburg Open
26 Feb 26	Investec SA Open Championship

Description

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.

Most of the tour's leading official money events, including the South African Open, are co-sanctioned with the European Tour to attract stronger fields. The 2015 season included 27 official money events. The co-sanctioned events had purses ranging from €1 million to $6.5 million, while the other 21 events had purses designated in South African Rand and ranging from 650,000 rand to 4.5 million rand. There was at least one tournament every month of the year except July, but the main events took place in the South African summer from November to February.

The tour has been open to non-White players since 1991. Five black golfers have won events: South Africa's John Mashego at the 1991 Bushveld Classic; South Africa's Lindani Ndwandwe at the 2001 Western Cape Classic and 2009 Highveld Classic; Zimbabwe's Tongoona Charamba at the 2006 SAA Pro-Am Invitational and 2008 MTC Namibia PGA Championship; Zambia's Madalitso Muthiya at the 2016 Vodacom Origins of Golf (Wild Coast); and South Africa's Toto Thimba Jr. at the 2019 KCB Karen Masters.

In 2016, the Sunshine Tour announced an affiliation with the MENA Golf Tour, allowing the top five MENA Tour players Sunshine Tour cards and those 6th-15th into the final stage of Q School. A number of events would also be co-sanctioned among the Sunshine Tour, MENA Tour, and developmental Big Easy Tour.

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