2012 Sunshine Tour

2012 Sunshine Tour season

Duration	5 January 2012 (2012-01-05) – 16 December 2012 (2012-12-16)
Number of official events	26
Most wins	Jake Roos (3) Trevor Fisher Jnr (3)
Order of Merit	Branden Grace
Players' Player of the Year	Trevor Fisher Jnr
Rookie of the Year	Daniel van Tonder
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The 2012 Sunshine Tour was the 42nd season of the Sunshine Tour (formerly the Southern Africa Tour), the main professional golf tour in South Africa since it was formed in 1971.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2012 season.^[1]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (R)	Winner[a]	OWGR points	Other tours[b]	Notes
8 Jan	Africa Open	Eastern Cape	€1,000,000	Louis Oosthuizen (7)	20	EUR
15 Jan	Joburg Open	Gauteng	€1,300,000	Branden Grace (2)	22	EUR
19 Feb	Dimension Data Pro-Am	Western Cape	3,200,000	Oliver Bekker (2)	14		Pro-Am
26 Feb	Telkom PGA Championship	Gauteng	3,500,000	Keith Horne (5)	14
24 Mar	Platinum Classic	North West	500,000	Jake Roos (3)	4
22 Apr	Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open	Zimbabwe	1,250,000	Chris Swanepoel (3)	6
5 May	Investec Royal Swazi Open	Swaziland	1,000,000	Christiaan Basson (2)	6
11 May	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Simola	Eastern Cape	600,000	Ryan Cairns (1)	8
26 May	Sun City Challenge	North West	550,000	Bryce Easton (1)	4
3 Jun	Lombard Insurance Classic	Swaziland	900,000	Jake Roos (4)	4
8 Jun	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Zebula	Limpopo	600,000	Bryce Easton (2)	4
17 Jun	Indo Zambia Bank Zambia Open	Zambia	1,200,000	Justin Harding (3)	6
27 Jul	Vodacom Origins of Golf at De Zalze	Western Cape	600,000	Allan Versfeld (1)	6
24 Aug	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Selborne Park	KwaZulu-Natal	600,000	Adilson da Silva (10)	4
31 Aug	Wild Waves Golf Challenge	KwaZulu-Natal	600,000	Trevor Fisher Jnr (5)	4		New tournament
7 Sep	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Sishen	Northern Cape	600,000	Trevor Fisher Jnr (6)	4
28 Sep	Vodacom Origins of Golf Final	Western Cape	600,000	Branden Grace (3)	10
21 Oct	BMG Classic	Gauteng	600,000	Teboho Sefatsa (1)	4
27 Oct	Suncoast Classic	KwaZulu-Natal	600,000	Ruan de Smidt (1)	6
4 Nov	ISPS Handa Match Play Championship	Gauteng	2,000,000	Doug McGuigan (6)	14		New tournament
8 Nov	Nedbank Affinity Cup	North West	650,000	Trevor Fisher Jnr (7)	4
18 Nov	SA Open Championship	Gauteng	€1,000,000	Henrik Stenson (n/a)	32	EUR	Flagship event
25 Nov	Lion of Africa Cape Town Open	Western Cape	2,000,000	Jake Roos (5)	14		New tournament
2 Dec	Nedbank Golf Challenge	North West	US$5,000,000	Martin Kaymer (n/a)	30		Limited-field event
9 Dec	Nelson Mandela Championship	KwaZulu-Natal	€1,300,000	Scott Jamieson (n/a)	20	EUR	New tournament
16 Dec	Alfred Dunhill Championship	Mpumalanga	€1,500,000	Charl Schwartzel (6)	28	EUR

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in South African rand.^[2][3]

Position	Player	Prize money (R)
1	Branden Grace	2,760,319
2	George Coetzee	1,930,565
3	Jaco van Zyl	1,655,987
4	Trevor Fisher Jnr	1,502,093
5	Tjaart van der Walt	1,464,182

Awards

Award	Winner	Ref.
Players' Player of the Year	Trevor Fisher Jnr	[3]
Rookie of the Year (Bobby Locke Trophy)	Daniel van Tonder	[4][3]

See also

• 2012 Big Easy Tour

Notes

1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Sunshine Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Sunshine Tour members.
2. EUR − European Tour.

References

1. "2012 Tournament schedule". Sunshine Tour. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
2. "2012 Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
3. "Grace, Fisher score in Sunshine Tour awards". The Gremlin. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2023. Grace picked up the Sid Brews Trophy for winning the 2012 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit... Fisher was named Players' Player of the Year in a ballot of his peers... Bobby Locke Trophy for the Rookie of the Year: Danie van Tonder
4. "2012 Rookie of the Year". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.

External links

• Official website