The 2009 Sunshine Tour was the 39th season of the Sunshine Tour (formerly the Southern Africa Tour), the main professional golf tour in South Africa since it was formed in 1971.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2009 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(R) 		Winner[a] OWGR
points 		Other
tours[b] 		Notes
11 Jan Joburg Open Gauteng €1,100,000 Denmark Anders Hansen (1) 20 EUR
18 Jan Africa Open Golf Challenge Eastern Cape 5,000,000 South Africa Retief Goosen (6) 18
25 Jan Dimension Data Pro-Am North West 1,800,000 South Africa Deane Pappas (2) 14 Pro-Am
1 Feb Nashua Masters Eastern Cape 1,200,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (7) 14
15 Feb Vodacom Championship Gauteng 2,650,000 Denmark Anders Hansen (2) 14
22 Feb Telkom PGA Championship Gauteng 2,750,000 South Africa Jaco van Zyl (3) 14
3 Apr Vodacom Origins of Golf at Bloemfontein Free State 480,000 South Africa Trevor Fisher Jnr (4) n/a
2 May SAA Pro-Am Invitational (1st) KwaZulu-Natal 500,000 Brazil Adilson da Silva (5) n/a
9 May Samsung Royal Swazi Sun Open Swaziland 750,000 South Africa Jaco van Zyl (4) n/a
16 May Nashua Golf Challenge North West 500,000 Scotland Doug McGuigan (4) n/a
22 May Vodacom Origins of Golf at Pretoria Gauteng 480,000 South Africa Brandon Pieters (1) n/a
7 Jun Lombard Insurance Classic Swaziland 500,000 South Africa Peter Karmis (2) n/a
25 Jun Vodacom Origins of Golf at Fancourt Western Cape 480,000 South Africa Brandon Pieters (2) n/a
8 Aug Suncoast Classic KwaZulu-Natal 500,000 South Africa Louis de Jager (1) n/a
14 Aug Vodacom Origins of Golf at Erinvale Western Cape 480,000 South Africa Jaco Ahlers (1) n/a
21 Aug Telkom PGA Pro-Am Gauteng 450,000 South Africa Jaco van Zyl (5) n/a
30 Aug[c]
28 Mar 		Zambia Open Zambia 800,000 South Africa Jbe' Kruger (1) n/a
5 Sep SAA Pro-Am Invitational (2nd) Gauteng 500,000 South Africa Ryan Tipping (1) n/a
18 Sep Vodacom Origins of Golf at Selborne KwaZulu-Natal 480,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (8) n/a
3 Oct SAA Pro-Am Invitational (3rd) Western Cape 500,000 South Africa Prinavin Nelson (1) n/a
9 Oct Vodacom Origins of Golf Final Western Cape 480,000 South Africa Brandon Pieters (3) n/a
18 Oct BMG Classic Gauteng 500,000 Canada Graham DeLaet (1) n/a
25 Oct Highveld Classic Mpumalanga 600,000 South Africa Lindani Ndwandwe (2) n/a
31 Oct Platinum Classic North West 705,000 South Africa Darren Fichardt (9) n/a
15 Nov MTC Namibia PGA Championship Namibia 1,000,000 South Africa Hennie Otto (8) 14
26 Nov Coca-Cola Charity Championship Western Cape 550,000 South Africa Christiaan Basson (1) n/a
2 Dec Nedbank Affinity Cup North West 550,000 South Africa Jake Roos (2) n/a
6 Dec Nedbank Golf Challenge North West US$4,385,000 Australia Robert Allenby (n/a) 30 Limited-field event
13 Dec Alfred Dunhill Championship Mpumalanga €1,000,000 Spain Pablo Martín (n/a) 20 EUR
20 Dec South African Open Championship Western Cape €1,000,000 Scotland Richie Ramsay (n/a) 32 EUR Flagship event

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in South African rand.[4][5]

Position Player Prize money (R)
1 Denmark Anders Hansen 4,286,038
2 South Africa Charl Schwartzel 2,315,188
3 South Africa Darren Fichardt 1,475,026
4 South Africa Jaco van Zyl 1,333,023
5 Scotland David Drysdale 1,184,733

Awards

Award Winner Ref.
Rookie of the Year (Bobby Locke Trophy) Canada Graham DeLaet [6]

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. ^ EUR − European Tour.
  3. ^ Postponed from its original date in March.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "2009 Tournament schedule". Sunshine Tour. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Zambia Open Golf Championship Postponed". Lusaka Times. 10 March 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Zambia Open back on Sunshine Tour calendar". Sunshine Tour. 23 July 2009. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  4. ^ "2009 Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Hansen wins Sunshine Tour". News24. 20 December 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  6. ^ Sunshine Tour [@Sunshine_Tour] (11 October 2018). "This week in 2009" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 April 2023 – via Twitter. Graham DeLaet of Canada won the BMG Classic on the Sunshine Tour on his way to the Rookie of the Year title.
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