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Africa Open

Africa Open
Location Eastern Cape, South Africa
Established 2008
Course(s) East London Golf Club
Par 71
Length 6,616 yards (6,050 m)
Tour(s) Sunshine Tour
European Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund R 14,500,000
Month played February
Final year 2015
Aggregate 265 Louis Oosthuizen (2012)
To par −27 Louis Oosthuizen (2012)
South Africa Trevor Fisher Jnr

The Africa Open was a golf tournament on the Sunshine Tour held in Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was first contested in February 2008, over the Gary Player designed championship course at the Fish River Sun Country Club, near Port Alfred.

In order to increase the profile of the tournament, beginning in 2009 it was held in January at the East London Golf Club in East London. In 2009, the Africa Open had a prize fund of R5 million, over four times that of the inaugural event. The Sunshine Tour hoped that it would attract a stronger field as a result, and possibly lead to a co-sanctioning agreement with the European Tour in subsequent years.

In 2009, it was announced that the Africa Open would be included on the 2010 European Tour schedule. It was the third event of the four tournament South African swing of the tour, held after the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the South African Open, and the week before the Joburg Open. The purse for 2014 was 1,000,000.

Coordinates: 32°S 27°E / 32°S 27°E / -32; 27


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