2004–05 Sunshine Tour

The 2004–05 Sunshine Tour was the 34th season of the Sunshine Tour (formerly the Southern Africa Tour), the main professional golf tour in South Africa since it was formed in 1971.

2004–05 Sunshine Tour season
Duration11 March 2004 (2004-03-11) – 27 February 2005 (2005-02-27)
Number of official events22
Most wins Thomas Aiken (3)
Order of Merit Charl Schwartzel
Rookie of the Year Garry Houston

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2004–05 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(R)		 Winner[lower-alpha 1] OWGR
points		 Other
tours[lower-alpha 2]		 Notes
14 MarStanbic Zambia OpenZambia€110,000 Michael Kirk (1)10CHA
27 MarFNB Botswana OpenBotswana250,000 Barry Painting (1)n/a
2 AprParmalat ClassicEastern Cape200,000 Justin Walters (1)n/a
8 MayCapital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun OpenSwaziland400,000 Nic Henning (3)n/a
29 MayVodacom Origins of Golf at PezulaWestern Cape300,000 Patrick O'Brien (1)n/aNew tournament series
12 JunVodacom Origins of Golf at Schoeman ParkNorth West300,000 Steve van Vuuren (6)n/a
20 JunRoyal Swazi Sun ClassicSwaziland250,000 Bradford Vaughan (4)n/a
2 JulVodacom Origins of Golf at ZimbaliKwaZulu-Natal300,000 Thomas Aiken (1)n/a
23 JulVodacom Origins of Golf at Sun CityNorth West300,000 Thomas Aiken (2)n/a
19 SepVodacom Origins of Golf at ArabellaWestern Cape300,000 Louis Oosthuizen (1)n/a
10 OctBearing Man Highveld ClassicMpumalanga250,000 Divan van den Heever (1)n/a
16 OctLimpopo Eskom ClassicLimpopo500,000 Bradford Vaughan (5)n/a
21 OctVodacom Origins of Golf FinalWestern Cape300,000 Thomas Aiken (3)n/a
30 OctPlatinum ClassicNorth West550,000 Titch Moore (5)n/a
6 NovMTC Namibia PGA ChampionshipNamibia500,000 Mark Murless (2)n/aNew tournament
13 NovSeekers Travel Pro-AmGauteng230,000 Ulrich van den Berg (3)n/a
12 DecDunhill ChampionshipMpumalanga£500,000 Charl Schwartzel (1)18EUR
23 JanSouth African Airways OpenKwaZulu-Natal£500,000 Tim Clark (2)32EURFlagship event
30 JanDimension Data Pro-AmNorth West1,000,000 Simon Wakefield (1)12Pro-Am
6 FebNashua MastersEastern Cape1,000,000 Richard Sterne (1)12
20 FebTelkom PGA ChampionshipGauteng1,750,000 Warren Abery (3)12
27 FebVodacom Tour ChampionshipGauteng2,000,000 Marc Cayeux (7)12Tour Championship

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in South African rand.[2][3]

PositionPlayerPrize money (R)
1 Charl Schwartzel1,635,850
2 Neil Cheetham732,963
3 Warren Abery704,837
4 Titch Moore490,268
5 Marc Cayeux430,676

Awards
AwardWinnerRef.
Rookie of the Year (Bobby Locke Trophy) Garry Houston[4]

Notes
  1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Sunshine Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Sunshine Tour members.
  2. CHA − Challenge Tour; EUR − European Tour.

References
  1. "2004/05 Tournament schedule". Sunshine Tour. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  2. "2004/05 Order of Merit". Sunshine Tour. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  3. Winter, Grant (23 February 2005). "'Schwartzel is best young, player in world'". Independent Online. Retrieved 9 September 2023. He has won the 2004-05 Sunshine Tour order of merit by the proverbial mile.
  4. South African Golfers Yearbook. Picasso Headline. 2002. p. 9. Retrieved 8 November 2023 – via Google Books. Rookie of the Year honours went to veteran Welshman Garry Houston, playing the tour for the first time. He finished 37th on the Order of Merit and just edged out 18-year-old Anton Haig (39th) by R3,300 for the award.
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