SuperSport Ladies Challenge

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SuperSport Ladies Challenge
Tournament information
Location Sun City, South Africa
Established2014
Course(s) Gary Player Country Club
Par72
Tour(s) Sunshine Ladies Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund R 1,300,000
Month playedFebruary/March
Tournament record score
Aggregate202 Bertine Strauss (2016)
To par−14 as above
Current champion
Flag of India.svg Tvesa Malik
Location Map
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Gary Player Country Club
Location in South Africa
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Gary Player Country Club
Location in North West Province

The SuperSport Ladies Challenge is a women's professional golf tournament held in South Africa. It is an event on the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Ladies Tour since 2014 and has been played at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City since 2020. [1]

Contents

In 2022, Paula Reto secured her first professional title in her home country after a record ten stroke victory. [2]

Winners

YearVenueWinnerScoreMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-upNote
2024 Lost City Golf Club Flag of India.svg Tvesa Malik −9 (71-65-71=207)3 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Gabrielle Venter
2023 Gary Player Country Club Flag of South Africa.svg Casandra Alexander −9 (70-67-70=207)6 strokes Flag of Norway.svg Dorthea Forbrigd [3]
2022 Gary Player Country Club Flag of South Africa.svg Paula Reto −13 (67-65-71=213)10 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Casandra Alexander [4]
2021 Gary Player Country Club Flag of South Africa.svg Michaela Fletcher −5 (75-65-71=211)1 stroke Flag of South Africa.svg Caitlyn Macnab (a) [5]
2020 Gary Player Country Club Flag of South Africa.svg Leján Lewthwaite −6 (66-71-73=210)Playoff Flag of South Africa.svg Tandi McCallum [6]
2019 Wild Coast Sun Country Club Flag of Scotland.svg Jane Turner −4 (69-69-68= 206)4 strokes Flag of Eswatini.svg Nobuhle Dlamini [7]
2018 Wild Coast Sun Country Club Flag of Eswatini.svg Nobuhle Dlamini −5 (64-69-72=205)1 stroke Flag of South Africa.svg Lora Assad [8]
2017 Huddle Park Golf Club Flag of South Africa.svg Kim Williams −7 (70-70-69=209)1 stroke Flag of South Africa.svg Melissa Eaton [9]
2016 Huddle Park Golf Club Flag of South Africa.svg Bertine Strauss −14 (64-69-69=202)5 strokes Flag of Spain.svg Maria Beautell [10]
2015 Zwartkop Country Club Flag of South Africa.svg Lee-Anne Pace −5 (137)1 stroke Flag of Eswatini.svg Nobuhle Dlamini
Flag of South Africa.svg Ashleigh Simon
Flag of South Africa.svg Kim Williams
[11]
2014 Observatory Golf Club Flag of South Africa.svg Monique Smit −5 (139)1 stroke Flag of South Africa.svg Lee-Anne Pace [12]

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