List of golfers with most Sunshine Tour wins

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This is a list of golfers who have recorded the most number of tournament wins on the Sunshine Tour since it was established. It was previously named the South African winter Tour, the FNB Winter Tour and the South African Tour. This list contains golfers who have won any number of events that are and/or have been recognized as professional golf events in South Africa. There are some complications in preparing such a list, and different publications have produced different numbers.

The Sunshine Tour is based in primarily in South Africa with a few events held in neighbouring countries including Swaziland, Zambia, Namibia, and in the past Zimbabwe. Originally known as the Sunshine Circuit, the tour was known simply as the Southern Africa Tour, or Southern Africa PGA Tour, until the start of the 2000/2001 season when it was rebranded as the Sunshine Tour.

The number of wins a player can accumulate on the Sunshine Tour depends in part on how many years he devotes to the tour. There have always been some leading African players or Sunshine Tour members from outside Africa who have gone on to play part or full-time on the U.S.-based PGA Tour and cut back their commitments in Africa, and this seems to be an increasing trend.

Many of the players on the list have won many events on other tours and unofficial events. The numbers in the "Majors" column are the total number of major championships the player won in his career whether or not he was a member of the Sunshine Tour at the time. Major Championships are not counted as Sunshine Tour victories, and do not count towards the Order of Merit. Players under 50 years of age are shown in bold.

Members of the World Golf Hall of Fame are annotated HoF .

This list is up to date through 1 January 2020.

This list may be incomplete.
RankNameLifespanCountryWins Majors Winning span
1 Gary Player HoF 1935–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 6391955–1981
2 Mark McNulty 1953–Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
3301979–2002
3 Bobby Locke HoF 1917–1987Flag of South Africa (1982-1994).svg  South Africa 3041935–1958
4 Sid Brews 1899–1972Flag of South Africa (1928-1994).svg  South Africa 2601925–1953
5 John Bland 1945–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 2101970–1991
6 Jean Hugo 1975–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1901999–2019
T7 Tony Johnstone 1956–Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 1701984–1998
Darren Fichardt 1975–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1701997–2020
9 Ernie Els HoF 1969–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1641991–2010
10 Bobby Lincoln 1953–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1501985–1999
11 Jaco van Zyl 1979–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1402005–2016
T12 Desvonde Botes 1974–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1301993–2006
Dale Hayes 1952–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1301971–1978
T14 Adilson da Silva 1972–Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1201997–2013
Des Terblanche 1965–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1201989–2007
T16 Fulton Allem 1957–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1101986–1991
Hugh Baiocchi 1946–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1101971–1989
Justin Hobday 1963–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1101989–2001
James Kingston 1965–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1101992–2013
Hennie Otto 1976–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1101999–2011
Wayne Westner 1961–2017Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1101983–1996
T22 John Fourie 1939–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1001970–1977
Allan Henning 1944–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1001963–1980
Titch Moore 1976–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1002000–2016
Nick Price HoF 1957–Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 1031979–1998
Ashley Roestoff 1963–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1001992–2002
T27 Marc Cayeux 1978–Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 901998–2008
Trevor Fisher Jnr 1979–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 902003–2015
Retief Goosen 1969–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 921991–2009
Keith Horne 1971–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 901998–2017
Charl Schwartzel 1984–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 912004–2016
Roger Wessels 1961–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 901992–2001
Chris Williams 1959–Flag of England.svg  England
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
901985–2007
T34 Jaco Ahlers 1982–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 802009–2019
Thomas Aiken 1983–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 802004–2014
Hendrik Buhrmann 1963–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 801991–2005
George Coetzee 1986–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 802007–2016
Bobby Cole 1948–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 801969–1986
Doug McGuigan 1970–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 802003–2017
Louis Oosthuizen 1982–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 812004–2018
Bradford Vaughan 1975–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 801997–2006
T42 Warren Abery 1973–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 701998–2010
Dean Burmester 1989–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 702013–2018
Oliver Bekker 1984–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 702011–2017
Justin Harding 1986–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 702010–2018
Ulrich van den Berg 1975–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 702000–2013
Steve van Vuuren 1959–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 701995–2007
T48 David Frost 1959–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 601983–1999
Simon Hobday 1940–2017Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 601971–1985
Derek James 1960–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 601991–1994
Jake Roos 1980–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 602008–2013
Nico van Rensburg 1966–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 601989–2005
Vaughn Groenewald 1974–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 602006–2018
Peter Karmis 1981–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
602007–2018
T55 Merrick Bremner 1986–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 502008–2016
Branden Grace 1988–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 502010–2015
Denis Hutchinson 1932–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 501959–1970
Trevor Immelman 1979–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 512000–2007
Andrew McLardy 1974–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 501997–2004
Sean Pappas 1966–2015Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 501992–2000
J. C. Ritchie 1994–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 502017–2019
Richard Sterne 1981–Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 502005–2008

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