Alfred Dunhill Championship
Tournament information | |
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Location | Malalane, Mpumalanga, South Africa |
Established | 2000 |
Course(s) | Leopard Creek Golf Club |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,326 yards (6,699 m) |
Tour(s) |
European Tour Sunshine Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | €1,500,000 |
Month played | November/December |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 264 Charl Schwartzel (2012) |
To par | −24 Charl Schwartzel (2012) |
Current champion | |
Charl Schwartzel |
The Alfred Dunhill Championship is a men's professional golf tournament which is played in South Africa. It is part of the Southern African Sunshine Tour and is one of four events in South Africa that are co-sanctioned by the more prestigious European Tour.
The tournament was founded in 2000, but its origins lie in Dunhill's sponsorship of the South African PGA Championship between 1995 and 1999. Following the 1999 Alfred Dunhill PGA Championship, the company decided to discontinue their association with the South African PGA, and create their own stand alone tournament. The first event was held in January 2000 at the Houghton Golf Club in Johannesburg, and replaced the South African PGA Championship on the European Tour calendar.
In 2004, the tournament was rescheduled to December, resulting in two events being staged that year. Following this change, the Alfred Dunhill Championship has formed part of the following year's European Tour season. In addition, the event was moved to the Leopard Creek Golf Club, just south of the Kruger National Park in Malalane, Mpumalanga.
The Dunhill Championship should not be confused with the Dunhill Links Championship, a much richer European Tour event with the same sponsor which is played in Scotland.
Winners
Year | Season | Venue | Winner | Country | Score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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2013 | 2013 | 2014 | Leopard Creek GC | Charl Schwartzel | South Africa | 271 (−17) | 4 strokes | Richard Finch |
2012 | 2012 | 2013 | Leopard Creek GC | Charl Schwartzel | South Africa | 264 (−24) | 12 strokes | Kristoffer Broberg |
2011 | 2011 | 2011 | Leopard Creek GC | Garth Mulroy | South Africa | 269 (−19) | 2 strokes | George Murray |
2010 | 2010 | 2011 | Leopard Creek GC | Pablo Martín | Spain | 277 (−11) | 2 strokes | Anthony Michael Thorbjørn Olesen Charl Schwartzel |
2009 | 2009 | 2010 | Leopard Creek GC | Pablo Martín | Spain | 271 (−17) | 1 stroke | Charl Schwartzel |
2008 | 2008 | 2009 | Leopard Creek GC | Richard Sterne | South Africa | 271 (−17) | 1 stroke | Johan Edfors Robert Rock |
2007 | 2007 | 2008 | Leopard Creek GC | John Bickerton | England | 275 (−13) | 1 stroke | Ernie Els Lee Slattery |
2006 | 2006–07 | 2007 | Leopard Creek GC | Álvaro Quirós | Spain | 275 (−13) | 1 stroke | Charl Schwartzel |
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2005 | 2005–06 | 2006 | Leopard Creek GC | Ernie Els | South Africa | 274 (−14) | 3 strokes | Louis Oosthuizen Charl Schwartzel |
2004* | 2004–05 | 2005 | Leopard Creek GC | Charl Schwartzel | South Africa | 281 (−7) | Playoff (1st hole) | Neil Cheetham |
2004* | 2003–04 | 2004 | Houghton GC | Marcel Siem | Germany | 266 (−22) | Playoff (3rd hole) | Grégory Havret Raphaël Jacquelin |
2003 | 2002–03 | 2003 | Houghton GC | Mark Foster | England | 273 (−15) | Playoff (2nd hole) | Anders Hansen Trevor Immelman Paul Lawrie Doug McGuigan Bradford Vaughan |
2002 | 2001–02 | 2002 | Houghton GC | Justin Rose | England | 268 (−20) | 2 strokes | Mark Foster Retief Goosen Martin Maritz |
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2001 | 2000–01 | 2001 | Houghton GC | Adam Scott | Australia | 267 (−21) | 1 stroke | Justin Rose |
2000+ | 1999–00 | 2000 | Houghton GC | Anthony Wall | England | 204 (−12) | 2 strokes | Gary Orr Phillip Price |
* Two events in 2004 due to change in scheduling from January to December.
+ 2000 event reduced to three rounds because of rain.
See also
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