Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Sunshine Ladies Tour | |
Sport | Golf |
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Founder | Women's PGA of South Africa (WPGA) |
First season | 2014 |
CEO | Thomas Abt [1] |
Country | South Africa Schedule has included events in Eswatini and Zambia. |
Headquarters | Somerset West, Western Cape |
Most recent champion(s) | Lily May Humphreys |
Most titles | Lee-Anne Pace (14) |
Related competitions | Sunshine Tour |
Official website | sunshineladiestour.com |
The Sunshine Ladies Tour is a professional golf tour for women based in South Africa. [2]
Since the inaugural 2014 season, tournaments have averaged around ten per season and been concentrated in the January–March window. [3] Sponsors have included Investec, Jabra, Dimension Data, Sun International, SuperSport, Canon, the municipalities of Joburg, Cape Town and Ray Nkonyeni and Serengeti Estates. In 2019, over 40 foreign players, mainly European, competed on the tour. [4]
The Ladies European Tour co-sanctions the flagship Investec South African Women's Open, and the champion receives a tournament winner's category exemption on the Ladies European Tour, as well as exemption into the two of the five majors that are held in Europe, Women's British Open and the Evian Championship. [4]
Also, the winner of the Jabra Ladies Classic earns exemption for the Jabra Ladies Open, the final qualifying event for the Evian Championship. [4]
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The Evian Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as The Amundi Evian Championship, is a women's professional golf tournament in France, played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains. It was originally held in June, moved to July in 2003, and moved again to September in 2013. It returned to a July date in 2019.
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