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2015 Sunshine Tour - Wikipedia

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2015 Sunshine Tour season
Duration	19 February 2015 (2015-02-19) – 6 December 2015 (2015-12-06)
Number of official events	27
Most wins	Dean Burmester (4)
Order of Merit	George Coetzee
Players' Player of the Year	Dean Burmester
Rookie of the Year	Rourke van der Spuy
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The 2015 Sunshine Tour was the 45th 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 2015 season.^[1]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (R)	Winner^[a]	OWGR points	Other tours^[b]	Notes
22 Feb	Dimension Data Pro-Am	Western Cape	4,500,000	Branden Grace (5)	14		Pro-Am
1 Mar	Joburg Open	Gauteng	€1,300,000	Andy Sullivan (n/a)	19	EUR
8 Mar	Africa Open	Eastern Cape	14,500,000	Trevor Fisher Jnr (9)	19	EUR
15 Mar	Tshwane Open	Gauteng	18,500,000	George Coetzee (6)	19	EUR
22 Mar	Investec Cup	North West	1,000,000	Jaco Ahlers (3)	14
12 Apr	Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open	Zimbabwe	1,800,000	Dean Burmester (3)	14
26 Apr	Mopani/Redpath Zambia Open	Zambia	3,200,000	Ross McGowan (1)	14
3 May	Zambia Sugar Open	Zambia	1,500,000	Vaughn Groenewald (3)	14
9 May	Investec Royal Swazi Open	Swaziland	1,200,000	PH McIntyre (2)	14
10 May	AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open	Mauritius	€1,000,000	George Coetzee (7)	17	ASA, EUR	New tournament
24 May	Lombard Insurance Classic	Swaziland	1,000,000	Dean Burmester (4)	7
6 Jun	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Langebaan	Western Cape	650,000	Justin Harding (4)	4
7 Aug	Sun City Challenge	North West	700,000	Keith Horne (8)	7
22 Aug	Vodacom Origins of Golf at San Lameer	KwaZulu-Natal	650,000	Jean Hugo (16)	7
28 Aug	Sun Wild Coast Sun Challenge	KwaZulu-Natal	700,000	Vaughn Groenewald (4)	7		New tournament
4 Sep	Sun Sibaya Challenge	KwaZulu-Natal	700,000	Michael Hollick (1)	4		New tournament
12 Sep	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Vaal de Grace	Free State	650,000	Jean Hugo (17)	7
18 Sep	Sun Windmill Challenge	Free State	700,000	Dean Burmester (5)	7
3 Oct	Vodacom Origins of Golf at St Francis	Eastern Cape	650,000	Christiaan Basson (4)	4
9 Oct	Sun Boardwalk Challenge	Eastern Cape	700,000	Chris Swanepoel (4)	4
16 Oct	Sun Fish River Sun Challenge	Eastern Cape	700,000	Rourke van der Spuy (1)	4		New tournament
24 Oct	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Koro Creek	Limpopo	650,000	Dean Burmester (6)	7
5 Nov	Nedbank Affinity Cup	North West	800,000	Ruan de Smidt (2)	4
13 Nov	Vodacom Origins of Golf Final	Limpopo	650,000	Darren Fichardt (14)	4
22 Nov	Lion of Africa Cape Town Open	Western Cape	1,200,000	Brandon Stone (1)	14
29 Nov	Alfred Dunhill Championship	Mpumalanga	€1,500,000	Charl Schwartzel (8)	22	EUR
6 Dec	Nedbank Golf Challenge	Gauteng	US$6,500,000	Marc Leishman (n/a)	44	EUR	Limited-field event

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	George Coetzee	5,470,684
2	Charl Schwartzel	3,302,972
3	Jacques Blaauw	3,080,301
4	Dean Burmester	2,810,226
5	Trevor Fisher Jnr	2,560,306

Awards

Award	Winner	Ref.
Players' Player of the Year	Dean Burmester	^[4]
Rookie of the Year (Bobby Locke Trophy)	Rourke van der Spuy	^[5]^[6]

Notes

^ 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.
^ ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.

References

^ "2015 Tournament schedule". Sunshine Tour. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "2015 Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
^ "Coetzee tops Order of Merit". Daily News. Durban, South Africa. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2023 – via Pressreader.
^ "Burmester cleans up in Sunshine Tour awards". News24. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2023. He took the Gary Player Trophy for the best stroke average of the 2015 season (69.34 over 59 rounds of tournament golf), the Media's Player of the Year as voted by members of South Africa's golf journalists, the Players' Player of the Year which is an accolade from his fellow professionals...
^ "2015 Rookie of the Year". Sunshine Tour. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
^ "Van der Spuy claims Rookie of the Year". News24. 29 November 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2023.

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