Vodacom Championship

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Vodacom Championship
Tournament information
Location Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Established2001
Course(s)Pretoria Country Club
Par72
Length7,063 yards (6,458 m)
Tour(s) Sunshine Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund R  2,650,000
Month playedFebruary
Final year2010
Tournament record score
Aggregate260 Hennie Otto (2010)
To par−28 as above
Final champion
Flag of South Africa.svg Hennie Otto
Location Map
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Pretoria CC
Location in South Africa
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Pretoria CC
Location in Gauteng

The Vodacom Championship was an annual golf tournament on the Sunshine Tour. It was inaugurated in 2001 as part of the rebranding of the old Southern Africa Tour, and being the last event on the schedule, it was titled as The Tour Championship, but was renamed when the tour switched to a calendar based season in 2007.

The event took place in February each year, and was last held at the Pretoria Country Club in Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa, with a prize fund in 2010 of 2.65 million rand.

Winners

Sunshine Tour (Tour Championship)2001–2006
Sunshine Tour (Regular)2007–2010
#YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Vodacom Championship
10th 2010 Flag of South Africa.svg Hennie Otto (2)260−289 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Jbe' Kruger
9th 2009 Flag of Denmark.svg Anders Hansen 270−184 strokes Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Graham DeLaet
Flag of South Africa.svg Charl Schwartzel
8th 2008 Flag of South Africa.svg James Kingston 271−172 strokes Flag of Brazil.svg Adilson da Silva
7th 2007 Flag of South Africa.svg Richard Sterne 274−14Playoff Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Oosthuizen
Vodacom Tour Championship
6th 2006 Flag of South Africa.svg Charl Schwartzel 270−144 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Darren Fichardt
5th 2005 Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Marc Cayeux 268−206 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Keith Horne
The Tour Championship
4th 2004 Flag of South Africa.svg Andrew McLardy 273−153 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Oosthuizen
3rd 2003 Flag of South Africa.svg Hennie Otto 273−152 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Trevor Immelman
2nd 2002 Flag of South Africa.svg Nicholas Lawrence 274−141 stroke Flag of South Africa.svg Tim Clark
Flag of the United States.svg Bruce Vaughan
1st 2001 Flag of South Africa.svg Darren Fichardt 270−144 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Hennie Otto


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