Alfred Dunhill Championship
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 11-14; European-DP World/Sunshine Tours event). 24-year-old Jayden Schaper (RSA) beat Shaun Norris (RSA) with an eagle at the first playoff hole (par-5 18th). Schaper recorded his first Sunshine Tour and first European (DP World) Tour win, in his 95th start on the European Tour. Event reduced to 54 holes due to bad weather. [East Course, Royal Johannesburg GC, Johannesburg, RSA; formerly Royal Johannesburg & Kensington].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 12-15; European-DP World/Sunshine Tours event). Second-placed John Parry (Eng), Marcus Kinhult (Swe) and Ryan van Velzen (RSA) finished 1 shot behind Shaun Norris (RSA). Norris recorded his second European (DP World) Tour win, both coming in South Africa. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 7-10; European-DP World/Sunshine Tours event). Second-placed Charl Schwartzel (RSA) finished 2 shots behind Louis Oosthuizen (RSA), who won for the first time in five years. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 8-11; European-DP World/Sunshine Tours event). Second-placed Adrián Otaegui (Esp) finished two shots behind 37-year-old Ockie Strydom (RSA), who, after 19 runner-up finishes as a professional, eventually secured his second Sunshine Tour win, and first on the European (DP World) Tour. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa].
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Alfred Dunhill
Alfred Dunhill Championship not played in 2021 (scheduled for Dec 9-12, but cancelled due to the continuing global coronavirus pandemic; Sunshine Tour and 2022 season European-DP World Tour event). [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Nov 26-29; Eurpn/Sunshine Trs event). Second-placed Richard Bland (Eng), Sean Crocker (USA), Adrian Meronk (Poland) and Jayden Schaper (RSA) finished 4 shots behind Christiaan Bezuidenhout (RSA), who recorded his second European Tour win. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Nov 28-Dec 1; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2020 season opener). Second-placed Joel Sjöholm (Swe) finished 1 shot behind Pablo Larrazábal (Esp), who recorded his fifth European Tour win ... despite struggling with severely blistered feet in the final round. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 13-16; European/Sunshine Trs event; part of European Tr 2019 season). Second-placed David Drysdale (Scot) finished 2 shots behind David Lipsky (USA), who claimed his second European Tour win. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa].
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Alfred Dunhill Championship not played in 2017 due to renovation of the Leopard Creek course.
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 1-4; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2017 season-opener). Second-placed Richard Sterne (RSA) finished 7 shots behind Brandon Stone (RSA), who recorded his second European Tour win, again on home soil. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Nov 26-29; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2016 season opener played in 2015). Second-placed Grégory Bourdy (Fra) finished 4 shots behind Charl Schwartzel (RSA), who recorded his fourth win in this event. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 11-14; Sunshine/European Trs event; European Tr 2015 season). Second-placed Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) finished 7 shots behind wire-to-wire Branden Grace (RSA), who claimed his fifth European Tour win. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Nov 28-Dec 1; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2014 season). Second-placed Richard Finch (Eng) finished 4 shots behind defending champion Charl Schwartzel (RSA). [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 13-16; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2013 season). Second-placed Kristoffer Broberg (Swe) finished 12 shots behind Charl Schwartzel (RSA), whose winning margin eclipsed the 11-shot winning margin he recorded a week earlier in Thailand. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Nov 17-20; European/Sunshine Trs event; the second edition of this event on the European Tour 2011 schedule; the first was played in Dec 2010). George Murray (Scot) finished 2 shots behind 33-year-old home-country winner Garth Mulroy (RSA), who recorded his first European Tour win. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 9-12; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2011 season-opener and second playing of this event in the European Tr 2011 schedule). Second-placed Anthony Michael (RSA), Thorbjørn Olesen (Swe) and Charl Schwartzel (RSA) finished 2 shots behind defending champion Pablo Martín (Esp). [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 10-13; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2010 season-opener). Second-placed Charl Schwartzel (RSA) finished 1 shot behind Pablo Martín (Esp). Already the first golfer to win on the European Tour as an amateur, Martín became the first to win both as an amateur and a professional. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 11-14; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2009 season). Second-placed Robert Rock (Eng) and Johan Edfors (Swe) finished 1 shot behind Richard Sterne (RSA). [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 6-9; Sunshine/European Trs event; European Tr 2008 season). Second-placed Ernie Els (RSA) and Lee Slattery (Eng) finished 1 shot behind John Bickerton (Eng), who recorded the last of his three European Tour wins. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 7-10; Sunshine/European Trs event; European Tr 2007 season). Second-placed Charl Schwartzel (RSA) finished 1 shot behind 23-year-old Álvaro Quirós (Esp), who was making his first start as a full member of the Tour. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Dunhill Championship (Dec 8-11; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2006 season). Second-placed Charl Schwartzel (RSA) and Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) finished 3 shots behind Ernie Els (RSA), who recorded his first win after knee surgery following a boating accident in June 2005. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Dunhill Championship (Jan 22-25; Sunshine/European Trs event). 23-year-old Marcel Siem (Ger) beat Raphaël Jacquelin (Fra) with a birdie at the third playoff hole, to claim his first European Tour win. Grégory Havret (Fra) was eliminated at the second playoff hole. [Houghton GC, Johannesburg, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Dunhill Championship (Dec 9-12; European/Sunshine Trs event; European Tr 2005 season). 19-year-old Charl Schwartzel (RSA) beat Neil Cheetham (Eng) with a birdie at the first playoff hole, to record his first European Tour win. [Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, Mpumalanga, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Dunhill Championship (Jan 16-19; Sunshine/European Trs event). 27-year-old first-time European Tour winner Mark Foster (Eng) won a six-way playoff beating Trevor Immelman (RSA), Paul Lawrie (Scot) and Bradford Vaughan (RSA) with an eagle-3 at the second playoff hole. Doug McGuigan (Scot) and Anders Hansen (Den) were eliminated at the first playoff hole. [Houghton GC, Johannesburg, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Dunhill Championship (Jan 17-20; Sunshine/European Trs event). Second-placed Mark Foster (Eng), Retief Goosen (RSA) and Martin Maritz (RSA) finished 2 shots behind 21-year-old Justin Rose (Eng), who recorded his first European Tour win in his 86th start on the Tour. [Houghton GC, Johannesburg, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Jan 18-21; Sunshine/European Trs event). Second-placed Justin Rose (Eng) finished 1 shot behind 20-year-old Adam Scott (Aus), who recorded his first European Tour win. [Houghton GC, Johannesburg, RSA].
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Alfred Dunhill
Played as the inaugural Alfred Dunhill Championship (Jan 18-21; Sunshine/European Trs event, Dunhill having switched their sponsorship away from the South African PGA Championship). Second-placed Gary Orr (Scot) and Phillip Price (Wales) finished 2 shots behind 24-year-old Anthony Wall (Eng), who recorded the first of his two European Tour wins. Reduced to 54 holes due to bad weather. [Houghton GC, Johannesburg, RSA].
Sony Open in Hawaii: played at Waialae Country Club near Honolulu, the Sony Open takes over the spotlight from The Sentry as the PGA Tour’s calendar-year opening event (Jan 15-18). The Sentry (not being played in 2026) was formerly known as the Tournament of Champions, with a field typically restricted to golfers who won a PGA Tour event in the previous calendar year.
Dubai Desert Classic: the DP World Tour’s first Rolex Series event of 2026, is contested for the 37th time (Jan 22-25). First won by Englishman Mark James in 1989, it now boasts a four-time winner, Rory McIlroy. Played on the Emirates Golf Club’s Majlis course, this once desert-surrounded course is the long-time flagship for Golf in Dubai.
Our visit last month included two rounds at Golf de Chantilly, one of France’s most prestigious clubs.
It offers two superb layouts: Le Vineuil, a five-star championship course with a rich history, and Longères, an excellent four-star course that provides a strong and enjoyable test.
The wider Paris region offers plenty more. Courses such as Fontainebleau, Golf de Saint-Germain, and several other top-rated layouts make this area one of Europe’s most rewarding golf destinations, offering a mix of woodland, heathland, and parkland designs.
The Dutch: "It's no' just a game", as they say in Scotland, and that's certainly true at The Dutch. With 5-star services throughout, a lavishly comfortable Loch Lomond-inspired clubhouse, and a superbly designed and presented golf course, one could not ask for more from this top-end private club.
Join us at The Dutch from August 21–24 for the Festival of Golf, featuring the HotelPlanner Tour. Experience four days of top-tier sport, live music, incredible food, and unexpected surprises. Explore the grounds, connect with others, embrace new challenges, and dive into an unforgettable celebration. Click here to buy tickets.
Here at Prince’s Golf Club you'll find 27 excellent holes of links golf. Just over the fence and sharing similar terrain is Royal St George’s; but Prince’s is far from overshadowed by its venerable neighbour. The three nine-hole loops at Prince's, laid out over gently undulating terrain, are sure to bring a smile of satisfaction to all lovers of links golf.
Stay&Play at Prince's: excellent onsite Lodge accommodation available
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