Nedbank Golf Challenge

Nedbank Golf Challenge
Nedbank Golf Challenge
Tournament information
Location South Africa Sun City,
South Africa
Established 1981
Course(s) Gary Player CC
Par 72
Length 7,831 yards
Tour(s) Sunshine Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund $5,000,000[1]
Month played December
Tournament record score
Aggregate 263 Ernie Els (1999)
To par −25 Ernie Els (1999)
Current champion
England Lee Westwood

The Nedbank Golf Challenge is an annual men's professional golf tournament played at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, North West province, South Africa. It is not an official money event for any of the major tours, and like many high profile unofficial tournaments in professional golf it takes place between the conclusion of the PGA Tour in early November, and Christmas. It usually attracts many of the world's highest ranked players.

The tournament is a twelve man invitational stroke play event, with the field being made up of defending champion, the Sunshine Tour order of merit winner, the four major winners and then completed with the top players in the Official World Golf Rankings following the U.S. PGA Championship. In 2006, the tournament carried world ranking points for the first time since 1999.[2]

When it was conceptualised by Gary Player and founded by Sol Kerzner in 1981, the tournament was known as The Million Dollar Challenge because of its US$1 million prize fund, with the winner's share being $500,000. In 1987 the event was played on a "winner takes all" basis, with the winner claiming the whole of the million dollar purse. This was designed to overcome any qualms the world's top golfers might have about competing in South Africa during the apartheid era, and it was successful in doing this in many cases. In 1988 the winner's prize was again $1 million, but additional prizes were introduced.

From 2000 to 2002 the first prize was increased to $2 million, but the following year the winner's share of the total prize fund was reduced from more than half to around 30%. The standard winner's share on the PGA Tour is 18% and on the European Tour it is 16.67%. In 2006 the winner received $1.2 million out of a total purse of $4.385 million, so the prize distribution is now not far from the normal pattern for a professional tournament, once allowance is made for the small size of the field. That $2 million first prize remains the largest in professional golf.

Winners

Year Player Country Score
2010 Lee Westwood  England 271 (−17)
2009 Robert Allenby  Australia 277 (−11)PO
2008 Henrik Stenson  Sweden 267 (−21)
2007 Trevor Immelman  South Africa 272 (−16)
2006 Jim Furyk  United States 276 (−12)
2005 Jim Furyk  United States 282 (−6)PO
2004 Retief Goosen  South Africa 281 (−7)
2003 Sergio García  Spain 274 (−14)PO
2002 Ernie Els  South Africa 267 (−21)
2001 Sergio García  Spain 268 (−20)PO
2000 Ernie Els  South Africa 268 (−20)PO
1999 Ernie Els  South Africa 263 (−25)
1998 Nick Price  Zimbabwe 273 (−15)PO
1997 Nick Price  Zimbabwe 275 (−13)
1996 Colin Montgomerie  Scotland 274 (−14)PO
1995 Corey Pavin  United States 276 (−12)
1994 Nick Faldo  England 272 (−16)
1993 Nick Price  Zimbabwe 264 (−24)
1992 David Frost  South Africa 276 (−12)
1991 Bernhard Langer  Germany 272 (−16)
1990 David Frost  South Africa 284 (−4)
1989 David Frost  South Africa 276 (−12)
1988 Fulton Allem  South Africa 278 (−10)
1987 Ian Woosnam  Wales 274 (−14)
1986 Mark McNulty  Zimbabwe 282 (−6)
1985 Bernhard Langer  West Germany 278 (−10)
1984 Seve Ballesteros  Spain 279 (−9)
1983 Seve Ballesteros  Spain 274 (-14)
1982 Raymond Floyd  United States 280 (−8)PO
1981 Johnny Miller  United States 277 (−11)

As of 2009, the leading money winner in the event is Ernie Els with winnings of $7,971,000.[3]

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