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Dimension Data Pro-Am
Tournament information
LocationWestern Cape, South Africa
Established1996
Course(s)Fancourt (Montagu, Outeniqua and The Links)
Tour(s)Sunshine Tour
Challenge Tour (2020)
European Tour (1996–1997)
FormatStroke play
Prize fundR 6,300,000
US$ 340,000
Month playedFebruary
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (2020)
To par−25 as above
Current champion
South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout

The Dimension Data Pro-Am is an annual golf tournament on the Southern African Sunshine Tour, founded in 1996. The tournament was co-sanctioned by the European Tour for the first two years. In 2020 it was co-sanctioned with the Challenge Tour and had increased prize money of US$340,000 (R 6,300,000). Since 2011 the winner has received an entry into the WGC Invitational.

Until 2009 it was played at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, South Africa, with a prize fund in 2009 of R1.8 million. The Lost City course was used during the early rounds. Since 2010 the tournament has been played at Fancourt in George in the Western Cape. It uses the Montagu and Outeniqua courses as well as The Links for the first three rounds, with the final round played on the Montagu course.

Winners

Year Winner Country Score To par Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up
2020 Christiaan Bezuidenhout  South Africa 264 −25 1 stroke South Africa George Coetzee
2019 Philip Eriksson  Sweden 268 −21 3 strokes South Africa Justin Walters
2018 Jaco Ahlers  South Africa 269 −20 3 strokes South Africa Jean-Paul Strydom
2017 Paul Lawrie  Scotland 274 −15 1 stroke United States Justin Hicks
England Chris Lloyd
South Africa Chris Swanepoel
2016 George Coetzee  South Africa 268 −21 1 stroke South Africa Dean Burmester
2015 Branden Grace  South Africa 278 −11 2 strokes South Africa Keith Horne
2014 Estanislao Goya  Argentina 275 −14 1 stroke Denmark Lucas Bjerregaard
South Africa Keith Horne
South Africa Jean Hugo
Brazil Adilson da Silva
2013 Jaco van Zyl  South Africa 272 −17 1 stroke England Daniel Brooks
2012 Oliver Bekker  South Africa 276 −13 2 strokes South Africa Thomas Aiken
South Africa Tyrone Ferreira
2011 Hennie Otto  South Africa 273 −16 4 strokes South Africa James Kingston
2010 Darren Fichardt (2)  South Africa 273 −16 1 stroke South Africa Louis Oosthuizen
2009 Deane Pappas  South Africa 268 −20 8 strokes South Africa James Kamte
2008 James Kamte  South Africa 277 −11 3 strokes South Africa James Kingston
2007 Louis Oosthuizen  South Africa 277 −11 1 stroke South Africa Omar Sandys
2006 Alan McLean  Scotland 285 −3 Playoff South Africa Tyrone van Aswegen
2005 Simon Wakefield  England 279 −9 3 strokes South Africa Nic Henning
2004 Darren Fichardt  South Africa 278 −10 2 strokes Zimbabwe Nick Price
South Africa Ulrich van den Berg
2003 Trevor Immelman  South Africa 271 −17 1 stroke South Africa Andrew McLardy
United States Bruce Vaughan
2002 Retief Goosen  South Africa 268 −20 3 strokes England Scott Drummond
2001 Darren Clarke  Northern Ireland 274 −14 2 strokes South Africa Tjaart van der Walt
South Africa Retief Goosen
2000 Lee Westwood  England 274 −14 5 strokes United States Tom Gillis
1999 Scott Dunlap  United States 273 −15 5 strokes South Africa Steve van Vuuren
1998 Nick Price (2)  Zimbabwe 276 −12 5 strokes Zimbabwe Mark McNulty
1997 Nick Price  Zimbabwe 268 −20 8 strokes South Africa David Frost
1996 Mark McNulty  Zimbabwe 282 −6 4 strokes South Africa Brenden Pappas
Zimbabwe Nick Price
United States Ricky Willison

In 2006 McLean beat van Aswegen with a par at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.

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