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2007 Sunshine Tour

Golf tour season

Field	Value
year	2007
tour	Sunshine Tour
regular_season	–
no_of_events	28
most_wins	ZAF Louis Oosthuizen (3)
honor1	Order of Merit
honoree1	ZAF James Kingston
honor2	Players' Player of the Year
honor3	Rookie of the Year
honoree3	ENG Ross McGowan
prevseason	2006–07
nextseason	2008

The 2007 Sunshine Tour was the 37th 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 2007 season.

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse
(R)	Winner	OWGR
points	Other
tours	Notes
14 Jan	Joburg Open	Gauteng	€1,000,000	ARG Ariel Cañete (n/a)	20	EUR	New tournament
28 Jan	Dimension Data Pro-Am	North West	1,600,000	ZAF Louis Oosthuizen (2)	14		Pro-Am
4 Feb	Nashua Masters	Eastern Cape	1,200,000	ZAF Jean Hugo (5)	14
18 Feb	Vodacom Championship	Gauteng	2,200,000	ZAF Richard Sterne (2)	14
25 Feb	Telkom PGA Championship	Gauteng	2,250,000	ZAF Louis Oosthuizen (3)	14
11 Mar	Mount Edgecombe Trophy	KwaZulu-Natal	500,000	ZAF Steve van Vuuren (7)	n/a
1 Apr	Finance Bank Zambia Open	Zambia	750,000	ZAF Steve Basson (3)	n/a
15 Apr	Eskom Power Cup	North West	400,000	ZAF Chris Swanepoel (1)	n/a
20 Apr	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Arabella	Western Cape	400,000	ZAF Andrew Curlewis (1)	n/a
5 May	Samsung Royal Swazi Sun Open	Swaziland	600,000	ZAF Des Terblanche (7)	n/a
11 May	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Pretoria	Gauteng	400,000	ZAF Hennie Otto (7)	n/a
19 May	Suncoast Classic	KwaZulu-Natal	400,000	BRA Adilson da Silva (3)	n/a
10 Jun	Lombard Insurance Classic	Swaziland	350,000	ZAF Peter Karmis (1)	n/a		New tournament
15 Jun	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Selborne	KwaZulu-Natal	400,000	ZAF George Coetzee (1)	n/a
30 Jun	Nashua Golf Challenge	North West	400,000	ZAF Warren Abery (6)	n/a		New tournament
3 Aug	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Bloemfontein	Free State	400,000	ZAF Ulrich van den Berg (5)	n/a
24 Aug	Vodacom Origins of Golf at Fancourt	Western Cape	400,000	BRA Adilson da Silva (4)	n/a
31 Aug	Telkom PGA Pro-Am	Gauteng	350,000	ZAF Michiel Bothma (2)	n/a
8 Sep	Seekers Travel Pro-Am	Gauteng	400,000	ZAF James Kamte (1)	n/a
28 Sep	Vodacom Origins of Golf Final	Eastern Cape	400,000	ZAF Titch Moore (6)	n/a
7 Oct	Bearing Man Highveld Classic	Mpumalanga	400,000	ZWE Marc Cayeux (8)	n/a
20 Oct	MTC Namibia PGA Championship	Namibia	700,000	ZAF Keith Horne (2)	n/a
27 Oct	Platinum Classic	North West	705,000	ZAF Louis Oosthuizen (4)	n/a
22 Nov	Coca-Cola Charity Championship	Western Cape	500,000	ZAF Titch Moore (7)	n/a
28 Nov	Nedbank Affinity Cup	North West	500,000	ZAF Mark Murless (3)	n/a		New tournament
2 Dec	Nedbank Golf Challenge	North West	US$4,385,000	ZAF Trevor Immelman (5)	34		Limited-field event
9 Dec	Alfred Dunhill Championship	Mpumalanga	€1,000,000	ENG John Bickerton (n/a)	22	EUR
16 Dec	South African Airways Open	Western Cape	€1,000,000	ZAF James Kingston (7)	32	EUR	Flagship event

Unofficial events

The following events were sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse
(R)	Winner	OWGR
points	Other
tours	Notes
11 Nov	HSBC Champions	China	US$5,000,000	USA Phil Mickelson	52	ANZ, ASA, 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.

Position	Player	Prize money (R)
1	ZAF James Kingston	1,980,689
2	ZAF Louis Oosthuizen	1,596,846
3	ZAF Andrew McLardy	1,387,475
4	ZAF Hennie Otto	1,331,376
5	ZAF Richard Sterne	966,547

Awards

Award	Winner	Ref.
Rookie of the Year (Bobby Locke Trophy)	ENG Ross McGowan

Notes

References

"2007 Tournament schedule". Sunshine Tour.
"2007 Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour.
Winter, Grant. (17 December 2007). "Final 71 nets extra R2m for Kingston". Independent Online.
(19 December 2007). "Ross has a lot of Shine". Daily Mirror.

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