Sunshine Ladies Tour

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Sunshine Ladies Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
Golf current event.svg 2024 Sunshine Ladies Tour
Sport Golf
FounderWomen'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)
Flag of England.svg Lily May Humphreys
Most titles Flag of South Africa.svg 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]

Contents

Schedule

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]

Cooperation

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]

Flagship tournaments

Order of Merit winners

YearPlayerCountry
2023 Lily May Humphreys Flag of England.svg  England
2022 Linn Grant Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
2021 Lee-Anne Pace Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
2020 Monique Smit Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
2019 Nobuhle Dlamini Flag of Eswatini.svg  Eswatini
2018 Stacy Bregman Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
2017 Ashleigh Buhai Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
2016 Lee-Anne Pace Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
2015 Lee-Anne Pace Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
2014 Lee-Anne Pace Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa

Source: [7]

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