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Sunshine Ladies Tour

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Sunshine Ladies Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 Sunshine Ladies Tour
SportGolf
FounderWomen's PGA of South Africa (WPGA)
First season2014
CEOThomas Abt[1]
CountrySouth Africa
Schedule has included events in Eswatini and Zambia.
HeadquartersSomerset West, Western Cape
Most recent
champion(s)
England Lily May Humphreys
Most titlesSouth Africa Lee-Anne Pace (14)
Related
competitions
Sunshine Tour
Official websitesunshineladiestour.com

The Sunshine Ladies Tour is a professional golf tour for women based in South Africa.[2]

Schedule

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Since the inaugural 2014 season, tournaments have averaged around ten per season and been concentrated in the January–March window.[3] Sponsors have included Investec, Jabra, Dimension Data, Sun International, SuperSport, Canon, the municipalities of Joburg, Cape Town and Ray Nkonyeni and Serengeti Estates. In 2019, over 40 foreign players, mainly European, competed on the tour.[4]

Cooperation

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The Ladies European Tour co-sanctions the flagship Investec South African Women's Open, and the champion receives a tournament winner's category exemption on the Ladies European Tour, as well as exemption into the two of the five majors that are held in Europe, Women's British Open and the Evian Championship.[4]

Also, the winner of the Jabra Ladies Classic earns exemption for the Jabra Ladies Open, the final qualifying event for the Evian Championship.[4]

Flagship tournaments

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Order of Merit winners

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Year Player Country
2024 Gabriella Cowley  England
2023 Lily May Humphreys  England
2022 Linn Grant  Sweden
2021 Lee-Anne Pace  South Africa
2020 Monique Smit  South Africa
2019 Nobuhle Dlamini  Eswatini
2018 Stacy Bregman  South Africa
2017 Ashleigh Buhai  South Africa
2016 Lee-Anne Pace  South Africa
2015 Lee-Anne Pace  South Africa
2014 Lee-Anne Pace  South Africa

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Thomas Abt appointed Commissioner of Sunshine Tour". News24. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Georgia Oboh makes LET debut in South Africa". The Guardian. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Tournaments". Sunshine Ladies Tour. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Sunshine Ladies Tour poised for glorious run in 2020". African News Agency (ANA). Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  5. ^ "New venue – and sponsor – for SA Women's Open". The South Coast Herald. December 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Welcome boost for South African Women's Masters". The Independent Online. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Statistics". Sunshine Ladies Tour. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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