Big Easy Tour
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Professional golf tour
| Current season, competition or edition: Current sports event 2024–25 Big Easy Tour | |
| Sport | Golf |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | Sunshine Tour |
| First season | 2011 |
| Countries | Based in South Africa |
| Most titles | Tournament wins: South Africa Ian Snyman (5) |
| Official website | http://bigeasytour.co.za/ |
The Big Easy Tour, currently titled as the Betway Big Easy Tour, is a developmental golf tour based in South Africa, founded in 2011. It is a developmental tour for the Sunshine Tour. The top ten players earn Sunshine Tour cards, with those 11th–30th earning entry into the final stage of Sunshine Tour qualifying school. The tour is named after the nickname of South African golfer Ernie Els.
In 2017, three tournaments were co-sanctioned with the MENA Golf Tour.
From the start of 2018, tournaments attract Official World Golf Ranking points. Winners receive a minimum of 3 points for 54-hole tournaments and 5 points for 72-hole tournaments.[1]
Order of Merit winners
[edit ]| Season | Winner | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 2023–24 | South Africa Leon Vorster | 729 |
| Season | Winner | Prize money (R) |
| 2022 | South Africa Gerhard Pepler | 133,940 |
| 2020–21 | South Africa Kyle McClatchie | 60,547 |
| 2019 | South Africa Malcolm Mitchell | 74,097 |
| 2018 | South Africa Dylan Kok | 58,789 |
| 2017 | South Africa Jacquin Hess | 75,162 |
| 2016 | South Africa Jason Viljoen | 75,408 |
| 2015 | South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 70,465 |
| 2014 | South Africa Maritz Wessels | 51,593 |
| 2013 | South Africa Divan Gerber | 60,694 |
| 2012 | South Africa Teboho Sefatsa | 76,170 |
| 2011 | South Africa Louis Calitz | 61,022 |
References
[edit ]- ^ "OWGR Board Announcement". Official World Golf Ranking. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2023.