Alfred Dunhill Championship

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use South African English Template:Short description Template:Template other 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 several events in South Africa that are co-sanctioned by the more prestigious European Tour.

History

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; one in January and one in December. 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 Country Club, just south of the Kruger National Park in Malalane, Mpumalanga.

The 2021 event was scheduled to take place at Leopard Creek Country Club from 9–12 December. It was to be a co-sanctioned event between the European Tour and the Sunshine Tour. However, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions in place in the UK from South Africa, the event was cancelled less than two weeks before the tournament was due to start.

Flagship event

In 2016, the Alfred Dunhill Championship replaced the South African Open as the tour's flagship event by the Official World Golf Ranking governing board. The winner was awarded 32 OWGR points. The change only lasted for one edition before reverting to the South African Open the following year as no tournament was held. In 2020, the Alfred Dunhill Championship once again became the tour's flagship event. The event was intended to be the flagship event again in 2021. However, due to the cancellation of the tournament, the flagship event status was passed onto the South African Open.

Winners

	Sunshine Tour (Flagship event)	2016, 2020
	Sunshine Tour (Regular)	2000–2015, 2017–2018, 2022–

#	Year	ToursTemplate:Efn	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Venue
Alfred Dunhill Championship
24th	2024	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Shaun Norris	275	−13	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Marcus Kinhult Template:Flagicon John Parry Template:Flagicon Ryan van Velzen	Leopard Creek
23rd	2023	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Louis Oosthuizen	270	−18	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel	Leopard Creek
22nd	2022	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Ockie Strydom	270	−18	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Adrián Otaegui	Leopard Creek
–	2021	AFR, EUR	Cancelled due to the effect of COVID-19 related travel restrictions
21st	2020	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Christiaan Bezuidenhout	274	−14	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Richard Bland Template:Flagicon Sean Crocker Template:Flagicon Adrian Meronk Template:Flagicon Jayden Schaper	Leopard Creek
20th	2019	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Pablo Larrazábal	280	−8	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Joel Sjöholm	Leopard Creek
19th	2018	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon David Lipsky	274	−14	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon David Drysdale	Leopard Creek
2017: No tournament due to course renovation
18th	2016	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Brandon Stone	267	−21	6 strokes	Template:Flagicon Richard Sterne	Leopard Creek
17th	2015	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel (4)	273	−15	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Grégory Bourdy	Leopard Creek
16th	2014	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Branden Grace	268	−20	7 strokes	Template:Flagicon Louis Oosthuizen	Leopard Creek
15th	2013	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel (3)	271	−17	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Richard Finch	Leopard Creek
14th	2012	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel (2)	264	−24	12 strokes	Template:Flagicon Kristoffer Broberg	Leopard Creek
13th	2011	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Garth Mulroy	269	−19	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon George Murray	Leopard Creek
12th	2010	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Pablo Martín (2)	277	−11	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Anthony Michael Template:Flagicon Thorbjørn Olesen Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel	Leopard Creek
11th	2009	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Pablo Martín	271	−17	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel	Leopard Creek
10th	2008	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Richard Sterne	271	−17	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Johan Edfors Template:Flagicon Robert Rock	Leopard Creek
9th	2007	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon John Bickerton	275	−13	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Ernie Els Template:Flagicon Lee Slattery	Leopard Creek
8th	2006	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Álvaro Quirós	275	−13	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel	Leopard Creek
Dunhill Championship
7th	2005	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Ernie Els	274	−14	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon Louis Oosthuizen Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel	Leopard Creek
6th	2004 (Dec)	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Charl Schwartzel	281	−7	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Neil Cheetham	Houghton
5th	2004 (Jan)	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Marcel Siem	266	−22	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Grégory Havret Template:Flagicon Raphaël Jacquelin	Houghton
4th	2003	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Mark Foster	273	−15	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Anders Hansen Template:Flagicon Trevor Immelman Template:Flagicon Paul Lawrie Template:Flagicon Doug McGuigan Template:Flagicon Bradford Vaughan	Houghton
3rd	2002	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Justin Rose	268	−20	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Mark Foster Template:Flagicon Retief Goosen Template:Flagicon Martin Maritz	Houghton
Alfred Dunhill Championship
2nd	2001	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Adam Scott	267	−21	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Justin Rose	Houghton
1st	2000	AFR, EUR	Template:Flagicon Anthony Wall	204Template:Efn	−12	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Gary Orr Template:Flagicon Phillip Price	Houghton

External links

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• Coverage on the Sunshine Tour's official site