Africa Open

The Africa Open was a golf tournament on the Sunshine Tour held in Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was first contested in February 2008, over the Gary Player designed championship course at the Fish River Sun Country Club, near Port Alfred.[1]

Africa Open

Tournament information
Location	Eastern Cape, South Africa
Established	2008
Course(s)	East London Golf Club
Par	71
Length	6,616 yards (6,050 m)
Tour(s)	Sunshine Tour European Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	R 14,500,000
Month played	February
Final year	2015
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Louis Oosthuizen (2012)
To par	−27 Louis Oosthuizen (2012)
Final champion
Trevor Fisher Jnr

East London
GC

Location in South Africa

In order to increase the profile of the tournament, beginning in 2009 it was held in January at the East London Golf Club in East London. In 2009, the Africa Open had a prize fund of R5 million, over four times that of the inaugural event. The Sunshine Tour hoped that it would attract a stronger field as a result, and possibly lead to a co-sanctioning agreement with the European Tour in subsequent years.[2]

In 2009, it was announced that the Africa Open would be included on the 2010 European Tour schedule. It was the third event of the four tournament South African swing of the tour, held after the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the South African Open, and the week before the Joburg Open.[3] The purse for 2014 was €1,000,000.