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Sunshine Ladies Tour
Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Sunshine Ladies Tour |
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| Sport | Golf |
| Founder | Women's PGA of South Africa (WPGA) |
| First season | 2014 |
| CEO | Thomas Abt[1] |
| Country | South AfricaSchedule has included events in Eswatini and Zambia. |
| Headquarters | Somerset West, Western Cape |
| Most recentchampion(s) |  Lily May Humphreys |
| Most titles |  Lee-Anne Pace (14) |
| Relatedcompetitions | Sunshine Tour |
| Official website | sunshineladiestour.com |
The Sunshine Ladies Tour is a professional golf tour for women based in South Africa.[2]
Since the inaugural 2014 season, tournaments have averaged around ten per season and been concentrated in the January–March window.[3] Sponsors have included Investec, Jabra, Dimension Data, Sun International, SuperSport, Canon, the municipalities of Joburg, Cape Town and Ray Nkonyeni and Serengeti Estates. In 2019, over 40 foreign players, mainly European, competed on the tour.[4]
The Ladies European Tour co-sanctions the flagship Investec South African Women's Open, and the champion receives a tournament winner's category exemption on the Ladies European Tour, as well as exemption into the two of the five majors that are held in Europe, Women's British Open and the Evian Championship.[4]
Also, the winner of the Jabra Ladies Classic earns exemption for the Jabra Ladies Open, the final qualifying event for the Evian Championship.[4]
Flagship tournaments
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- South African Women's Open – founded in 1988 and co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour[5]
- South African Women's Masters – founded in 1996 and co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour in 2001[6]
Order of Merit winners
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Source:[7]
- Sunshine Tour – corresponding men's tour
- ^ "Thomas Abt appointed Commissioner of Sunshine Tour". News24. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Georgia Oboh makes LET debut in South Africa". The Guardian. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Tournaments". Sunshine Ladies Tour. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ a b c "Sunshine Ladies Tour poised for glorious run in 2020". African News Agency (ANA). Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "New venue – and sponsor – for SA Women's Open". The South Coast Herald. December 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Welcome boost for South African Women's Masters". The Independent Online. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Statistics". Sunshine Ladies Tour. Retrieved 18 November 2020.