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Alfred Dunhill Championship Tournament information Location Malalane, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Established 2000 Course(s) Leopard Creek Golf Club Par 72 Length 7,326 yards (6,699 m) Tour(s) European Tour
Sunshine TourFormat Stroke play Prize fund €1,000,000 Month played November Tournament record score Aggregate 266 Marcel Siem (2004)
266 Grégory Havret (2004)
266 Raphaël Jacquelin (2004)To par −22 Marcel Siem (2004)
−22 Grégory Havret (2004)
−22 Raphaël Jacquelin (2004)Current champion Garth Mulroy
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 four events in South Africa that are co-sanctioned by the more prestigious European Tour.
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. 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 Golf Club, just south of the Kruger National Park in Malalane, Mpumalanga.
The Dunhill Championship should not be confused with the Dunhill Links Championship, a much richer European Tour event with the same sponsor which is played in Scotland.
Winners
Year Season Venue Winner Country Score Margin of
victoryRunner(s)-up Country Sunshine European Alfred Dunhill Championship 2011 2011 2011 Leopard Creek GC Garth Mulroy South Africa
269 (−19) 2 strokes George Murray Scotland
2010 2010 2011 Leopard Creek GC Pablo Martín Spain
277 (−11) 2 strokes Anthony Michael South Africa
Thorbjørn Olesen Denmark
Charl Schwartzel South Africa
2009 2009 2010 Leopard Creek GC Pablo Martín Spain
271 (−17) 1 stroke Charl Schwartzel South Africa
2008 2008 2009 Leopard Creek GC Richard Sterne South Africa
271 (−17) 1 stroke Johan Edfors Sweden
Robert Rock England
2007 2007 2008 Leopard Creek GC John Bickerton England
275 (−13) 1 stroke Ernie Els South Africa
Lee Slattery England
2006 2006–07 2007 Leopard Creek GC Álvaro Quirós Spain
275 (−13) 1 stroke Charl Schwartzel South Africa
Dunhill Championship 2005 2005–06 2006 Leopard Creek GC Ernie Els South Africa
274 (−14) 3 strokes Louis Oosthuizen South Africa
Charl Schwartzel South Africa
2004* 2004–05 2005 Leopard Creek GC Charl Schwartzel South Africa
281 (−7) Playoff
(1st hole)Neil Cheetham England
2004* 2003–04 2004 Houghton GC Marcel Siem Germany
266 (−22) Playoff
(3rd hole)Grégory Havret France
Raphaël Jacquelin France
2003 2002–03 2003 Houghton GC Mark Foster England
273 (−15) Playoff
(2nd hole)Anders Hansen Denmark
Trevor Immelman South Africa
Paul Lawrie Scotland
Doug McGuigan South Africa
Bradford Vaughan South Africa
2002 2001–02 2002 Houghton GC Justin Rose England
268 (−20) 2 strokes Mark Foster England
Retief Goosen South Africa
Martin Maritz South Africa
Alfred Dunhill Championship 2001 2000–01 2001 Houghton GC Adam Scott Australia
267 (−21) 1 stroke Justin Rose England
2000+ 1999–00 2000 Houghton GC Anthony Wall England
204 (−12) 2 strokes Gary Orr Scotland
Phillip Price Wales
* Two events in 2004 due to change in scheduling from January to December.
+ 2000 event reduced to three rounds because of rain.See also
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