2016–17 Sunshine Tour

The 2016–17 Sunshine Tour was the 46th season of the Sunshine Tour (formerly the Southern Africa Tour), the main professional golf tour in South Africa since it was formed in 1971.

2016–17 Sunshine Tour season

Duration	7 January 2016 (2016-01-07) – 5 March 2017 (2017-03-05)
Number of official events	31
Most wins	Jaco Ahlers (3)
Order of Merit	Brandon Stone
Rookie of the Year	Christiaan Bezuidenhout
← 2015 2017–18 →

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2016–17 season.^[1]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (R)	Winner[a]	OWGR points	Other tours[b]	Notes
10 Jan	BMW SA Open	Gauteng	15,000,000	Brandon Stone (2)	32	EUR	Flagship event
17 Jan	Joburg Open	Gauteng	16,500,000	Haydn Porteous (1)	19	EUR
14 Feb	Tshwane Open	Gauteng	18,500,000	Charl Schwartzel (9)	19	EUR
21 Feb	Dimension Data Pro-Am	Western Cape	5,000,000	George Coetzee (8)	14		Pro-Am
28 Feb	Eye of Africa PGA Championship	Gauteng	1,200,000	Jaco van Zyl (14)	14
12 Mar	Investec Cup	North West	10,000,000	Haydn Porteous (2)	n/a
17 Apr	Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open	Zimbabwe	1,800,000	Lyle Rowe (2)	14
24 Apr	Zambia Sugar Open	Zambia	1,500,000	Christofer Blomstrand (1)	14
7 May	Investec Royal Swazi Open	Swaziland	1,400,000	Titch Moore (10)	14
15 May	AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open	Mauritius	€1,000,000	Wang Jeung-hun (n/a)	17	ASA, EUR
22 May	Lombard Insurance Classic	Swaziland	1,200,000	Merrick Bremner (5)	4
5 Jun	KCM Zambia Open	Zambia	2,000,000	Jaco Ahlers (4)	14
30 Jul	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Wild Coast Sun	KwaZulu-Natal	700,000	Madalitso Muthiya (1)	4
6 Aug	Sun City Challenge	North West	700,000	Oliver Bekker (4)	7
20 Aug	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Arabella	Western Cape	700,000	Vaughn Groenewald (5)	4
26 Aug	Sun Wild Coast Sun Challenge	KwaZulu-Natal	700,000	Jaco Ahlers (5)	4
10 Sep	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Sishen	Northern Cape	700,000	Jacques Blaauw (4)	4
23 Sep	Sun Carnival City Challenge	Gauteng	700,000	Ruan de Smidt (3)	4		New tournament
1 Oct	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Simola	Western Cape	700,000	Justin Harding (5)	4
8 Oct	Sun Boardwalk Challenge	Eastern Cape	700,000	Ruan de Smidt (4)	4
14 Oct	Sun Fish River Challenge	Eastern Cape	700,000	Christiaan Bezuidenhout (1)	4
22 Oct	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Euphoria	Gauteng	700,000	Jaco Ahlers (6)	7
28 Oct	Sun Sibaya Challenge	KwaZulu-Natal	700,000	Peter Karmis (3)	7
5 Nov	Vodacom Origins of Golf Final	Eastern Cape	700,000	Mark Williams (1)	4
27 Nov	Lion of Africa Cape Town Open	Western Cape	1,500,000	Jacques Kruyswijk (1)	14
4 Dec	Alfred Dunhill Championship	Mpumalanga	€1,200,000	Brandon Stone (3)	32	EUR	Flagship event
15 Jan	BMW SA Open	Gauteng	15,000,000	Graeme Storm (n/a)	26	EUR
12 Feb	Eye of Africa PGA Championship	Gauteng	1,500,000	Erik van Rooyen (1)	14
19 Feb	Dimension Data Pro-Am	Western Cape	5,050,000	Paul Lawrie (n/a)	14
26 Feb	Joburg Open	Gauteng	16,500,000	Darren Fichardt (15)	19	EUR
5 Mar	Tshwane Open	Gauteng	18,500,000	Dean Burmester (7)	19	EUR

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in South African rand.^[2][3]

Position	Player	Prize money (R)
1	Brandon Stone	7,384,889
2	Dean Burmester	5,955,793
3	Darren Fichardt	3,303,541
4	Haydn Porteous	3,277,711
5	Zander Lombard	3,021,640

Awards

Award	Winner	Ref.
Rookie of the Year (Bobby Locke Trophy)	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	[4][5]

See also

• 2016 Big Easy Tour

Notes

1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Sunshine Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Sunshine Tour members.
2. ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.

References

1. "2016/17 Tournament schedule". Sunshine Tour. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
2. "2016/17 Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
3. "Stone wins Sunshine Tour order of merit". Reuters. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
4. "2016/17 Rookie of the Year". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
5. "Christiaan Bezuidenhout". ISPS Handa. Retrieved 17 April 2023. He was 'Rookie of the Year' on the Sunshine Tour in 2017...

External links

• Official website