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South African Sunshine Tour

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Established
1971 (54 years old)

First Recorded Event
2023-05-04

Current Season
2025

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Upcoming
calendar Hyundai Open driven by the Palisade (20 Feb 25)
calendar Investec SA Open (27 Feb 25)
calendar Joburg Open (06 Mar 25)
calendar The Courier Guy Playoff Series Serengeti Invitational (20 Mar 25)
calendar DNi Tour Championship The Courier Guy Playoff Series (27 Mar 25)
calendar Vusi Ngubeni Tournament (08 Apr 25)

Results
calendar NTT DATA Pro Am (13 Feb 25)
calendar Cell C Cape Town Open in association with Honor (06 Feb 25)
calendar MyGolfLife Open hosted by Pecanwood Estate (30 Jan 25)
calendar SDC Open (23 Jan 25)
calendar Mediclinic Invitational (16 Jan 25)
calendar AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open (SA) (19 Dec 24)
calendar Alfred Dunhill Championship (SA) (12 Dec 24)
calendar PGA Championship (SA) (21 Nov 24)
calendar Vodacom Origins of Golf Final Oubaai (14 Nov 24)
calendar Gary and Vivienne Player Invitational (09 Nov 24)

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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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