Vodacom Championship

Vodacom Championship
Tournament information
LocationPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Established2001
Course(s)Pretoria Country Club
Par72
Length7,063 yards (6,458 m)
Tour(s)Sunshine Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundR 2,650,000
Month playedFebruary
Final year2010
Tournament record score
Aggregate260 Hennie Otto (2010)
To par−28 as above
Final champion
South Africa Hennie Otto
Location map
Pretoria CC is located in South Africa
Pretoria CC
Pretoria CC
Location in South Africa
Pretoria CC is located in Gauteng
Pretoria CC
Pretoria CC
Location in Gauteng

The Vodacom Championship was an annual golf tournament on the Sunshine Tour. It was inaugurated in 2001 as part of the rebranding of the old Southern Africa Tour, and being the last event on the schedule, it was titled as The Tour Championship, but was renamed when the tour switched to a calendar based season in 2007.

The event took place in February each year, and was last held at the Pretoria Country Club in Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa, with a prize fund in 2010 of 2.65 million rand.

Winners

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Sunshine Tour (Tour Championship) 2001–2006
Sunshine Tour (Regular) 2007–2010
# Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Vodacom Championship
10th 2010 South Africa Hennie Otto (2) 260 −28 9 strokes South Africa Jbe' Kruger
9th 2009 Denmark Anders Hansen 270 −18 4 strokes Canada Graham DeLaet
South Africa Charl Schwartzel
8th 2008 South Africa James Kingston 271 −17 2 strokes Brazil Adilson da Silva
7th 2007 South Africa Richard Sterne 274 −14 Playoff South Africa Louis Oosthuizen
Vodacom Tour Championship
6th 2006 South Africa Charl Schwartzel 270 −14 4 strokes South Africa Darren Fichardt
5th 2005 Zimbabwe Marc Cayeux 268 −20 6 strokes South Africa Keith Horne
The Tour Championship
4th 2004 South Africa Andrew McLardy 273 −15 3 strokes South Africa Louis Oosthuizen
3rd 2003 South Africa Hennie Otto 273 −15 2 strokes South Africa Trevor Immelman
2nd 2002 South Africa Nicholas Lawrence 274 −14 1 stroke South Africa Tim Clark
United States Bruce Vaughan
1st 2001 South Africa Darren Fichardt 270 −14 4 strokes South Africa Hennie Otto
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