2016–17 Sunshine Tour
The 2016–17 Sunshine Tour was the 17th season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was relaunched in 2000, and the 10th since the tour switched a calendar based season in 2007. It marked a return to a multi-year schedule, the first since the 2006–07 Sunshine Tour season, and ended in March 2017. The Sunshine Tour represents the highest level of competition for male professional golfers in the region.
The tour is based predominantly in South Africa with other events being held in neighbouring countries, including Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Zambia and Mauritius.
Schedule
The table below shows the schedule of events for the 2016–17 Sunshine Tour season.
Prize funds shown do not count directly towards the Order of Merit. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of official money Sunshine Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Sunshine Tour members.
| Date | Tournament | Location | Prize fund (R) |
Winner | OWGR points |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jan | BMW SA Open | Johannesburg, Gauteng | 15,000,000 |  |
32 | Flagship event Co-sanctioned with the European Tour |
| 17 Jan | Joburg Open | Johannesburg, Gauteng | 16,500,000 | |
19 | Co-sanctioned with the European Tour |
| 14 Feb | Tshwane Open | Tshwane, Gauteng | 18,500,000 | |
19 | Co-sanctioned with the European Tour |
| 21 Feb | Dimension Data Pro-Am | George, Western Cape | 5,000,000 | |
14 | |
| 28 Feb | Eye of Africa PGA Championship | Johannesburg, Gauteng | 1,200,000 | |
14 | |
| 12 Mar | Investec Cup | Rustenburg, North West | 10,000,000 | |
n/a | |
| 17 Apr | Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open | Zimbabwe | 1,800,000 | |
14 | |
| 24 Apr | Zambia Sugar Open | Zambia | 1,500,000 |  |
14 | |
| 7 May | Investec Royal Swazi Open | Swaziland | 1,400,000 | |
14 | |
| 15 May | AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open | Mauritius | €1,000,000 |  |
17 | Co-sanctioned with the European Tour and Asian Tour |
| 22 May | Lombard Insurance Classic | Swaziland | 1,200,000 | |
4 | |
| 5 Jun | KCM Zambia Open | Zambia | 2,000,000 | |
14 | |
| 30 Jul | Vodacom Origins of Golf (Wild Coast) | KwaZulu-Natal | 700,000 |  |
4 | |
| 6 Aug | Sun City Challenge | Sun City, North West | 700,000 | |
7 | |
| 20 Aug | Vodacom Origins of Golf (Arabella) | Cape Town, Western Cape | 700,000 | |
4 | |
| 26 Aug | Sun Wild Coast Sun Challenge | KwaZulu-Natal | 700,000 | |
4 | |
| 10 Sep | Vodacom Origins of Golf (Sishen) | Northern Cape | 700,000 | |
4 | |
| 23 Sep | Sun Carnival City Challenge | Gauteng | 700,000 | |
4 | |
| 1 Oct | Vodacom Origins of Golf (Simola) | Western Cape | 700,000 | |
4 | |
| 8 Oct | Sun Boardwalk Challenge | Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape | 700,000 | |
4 | |
| 14 Oct | Sun Fish River Challenge | Port Alfred, Eastern Cape | 700,000 | |
4 | |
| 22 Oct | Vodacom Origins of Golf (Euphoria) | Pretoria, Gauteng | 700,000 | |
7 | |
| 28 Oct | Sun Sibaya Challenge | KwaZulu-Natal | 700,000 | |
7 | |
| 5 Nov | Vodacom Origins of Golf Final | Eastern Cape | 700,000 |  |
4 | |
| 27 Nov | Lion of Africa Cape Town Open | Western Cape | 1,500,000 | |
14 | |
| 4 Dec | Alfred Dunhill Championship | Limpopo | €1,200,000 | |
32 | Flagship event Co-sanctioned with the European Tour |
| 15 Jan | BMW SA Open | Johannesburg, Gauteng | 15,000,000 |  |
26 | Co-sanctioned with the European Tour |
| 12 Feb | Eye of Africa PGA Championship | Johannesburg, Gauteng | 1,500,000 | |
14 | |
| 19 Feb | Dimension Data Pro-Am | George, Western Cape | 5,050,000 |  |
14 | |
| 26 Feb | Joburg Open | Johannesburg, Gauteng | 16,500,000 | |
19 | Co-sanctioned with the European Tour Shortened to 54 holes |
| 5 Mar | Tshwane Open | Tshwane, Gauteng | 18,500,000 | |
19 | Co-sanctioned with the European Tour |
Order of Merit
This shows the final Order of Merit leaders.
| Rank | Player | Prize money (R) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 7,384,889 |
| 2 | | 5,955,793 |
| 3 | | 3,303,541 |
| 4 | | 3,277,711 |
| 5 | | 3,021,640 |