2010 Sunshine Tour

2010 Sunshine Tour season

Duration	7 January 2010 (2010-01-07) – 19 December 2010 (2010-12-19)
Number of official events	28
Most wins	Jaco van Zyl (4)
Order of Merit	Charl Schwartzel
Players' Player of the Year	Jaco van Zyl
Rookie of the Year	Anthony Michael
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The 2010 Sunshine Tour was the 40th 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 2010 season. ^[1]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (R)	Winner [lower-alpha 1]	OWGR points	Other tours [lower-alpha 2]	Notes
10 Jan	Africa Open	Eastern Cape	€1,000,000	Charl Schwartzel (3)	20	EUR
17 Jan	Joburg Open	Gauteng	€1,300,000	Charl Schwartzel (4)	22	EUR
14 Feb	Dimension Data Pro-Am	Western Cape	3,000,000	Darren Fichardt (10)	14		Pro-Am
21 Feb	Telkom PGA Championship	Gauteng	3,000,000	Michiel Bothma (3)	14
28 Feb	Vodacom Championship	Gauteng	2,650,000	Hennie Otto (9)	14
16 Apr	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Gardener Ross	Gauteng	510,000	Jean Hugo (8)	n/a
24 Apr	Africom Zimbabwe Open	Zimbabwe	1,200,000	Jbe' Kruger (2)	14
30 Apr	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Sishen	Free State	510,000	Jaco van Zyl (6)	n/a
8 May	Investec Royal Swazi Open	Swaziland	750,000	Keith Horne (4)	n/a
15 May	Nashua Golf Challenge	North West	500,000	Jaco van Zyl (7)	n/a
6 Jun	Lombard Insurance Classic	Swaziland	700,000	Grant Muller (2)	n/a
30 Jul	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Humewood	Eastern Cape	510,000	Ulrich van den Berg (6)	n/a
20 Aug	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Selborne	KwaZulu-Natal	510,000	James Kingston (9)	n/a
29 Aug	Zambia Open	Zambia	850,000	Adilson da Silva (6)	n/a
3 Sep	Telkom PGA Pro-Am	Gauteng	500,000	Jaco van Zyl (8)	n/a
11 Sep	SAA Pro-Am Invitational (1st)	Gauteng	500,000	Tyrone Ferreira (2)	n/a
18 Sep	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Stellenbosch	Western Cape	510,000	Jean Hugo (9)	n/a
25 Sep	SAA Pro-Am Invitational (2nd)	Western Cape	500,000	Jaco van Zyl (9)	n/a
2 Oct	SAA Pro-Am Invitational (3rd)	KwaZulu-Natal	500,000	Michiel Bothma (4)	n/a
15 Oct	Vodacom Origins of Golf Final	Western Cape	510,000	Justin Harding (1)	n/a
24 Oct	Suncoast Classic	KwaZulu-Natal	500,000	Adilson da Silva (7)	n/a
30 Oct	Platinum Classic	North West	705,000	Jean Hugo (10)	n/a
7 Nov	Nashua Masters	Eastern Cape	1,200,000	Warren Abery (7)	14
14 Nov	BMG Classic	Gauteng	550,000	Brandon Pieters (4)	n/a
18 Nov	Coca-Cola Charity Championship	Western Cape	550,000	Branden Grace (1)	n/a
5 Dec	Nedbank Golf Challenge	North West	US$5,000,000	Lee Westwood (n/a)	34		Limited-field event
12 Dec	Alfred Dunhill Championship	Mpumalanga	€1,000,000	Pablo Martín (n/a)	20	EUR
19 Dec	South African Open Championship	KwaZulu-Natal	€1,000,000	Ernie Els (15)	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. ^{[2] [3]}

Position	Player	Prize money (R)
1	Charl Schwartzel	5,097,914
2	Thomas Aiken	1,959,543
3	Keith Horne	1,904,950
4	Jbe' Kruger	1,768,632
5	Louis Oosthuizen	1,392,835

Awards

Award	Winner	Ref.
Players' Player of the Year	Jaco van Zyl	[4]
Rookie of the Year (Bobby Locke Trophy)	Anthony Michael	[4]

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.

References

1. "2010 Tournament schedule". Sunshine Tour. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
2. "2010 Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
3. "Schwartzel wins BMW for ace". News24. 20 December 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2023. Schwartzel picked up R444,355 for his efforts and in so doing clinched the 2010 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit title, banking a cool R5,097,913...
4. "Sun shines on Charl Schwartzel". TimesLIVE. Johannesburg, South Africa. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2023. The Bobby Locke Trophy for the rookie of the year was won by Anthony Michael... The players' player of the year was Van Zyl.

External links

• Official website